Covid-19 – Need options to switch from in-presence class to video conferencing

I work for a community college in Canada and because of Covid-19, all our classes will be offered by video conference starting on the 23rd, which gives us a week to find a solution.

We’re looking at Microsoft Teams for this and hopefully, it can deliver. We have A3 licenses for staff and students (although students are told that the college should join Teams so they can use the whole experience but that’s for another discussion).

We have about 2000 classes that needs to be offered by video conferences. Of course, they’re not offered all at the same time, I would assume about 160 classes could run concurrently (that’s the number od classrooms we have) varying from 5 to 60 students per class.

Can Teams handle this on a A3 licence scheme? We plan on either using the classroom podium (Windows 10 with a webcam) for the teacher or teacher’s own PC if he’s quarantine at home.

Our other dilemma is how to create those video conferences? We thought of using PowerShell to create them but from what I can see, I can’t create meetings through PowerShell.  Teachers will have their handful learning how to present their class through video conferencing and we would like to lend a hand their. What are our options?

We’re thinking of using anonymous meetings so they’re easy to create and only the teacher would need the Teams client to push his desktops to student running Teams from Google Chrome. Are we shooting ourself in the foot going this way?

Thanks!