Microsoft Teams is the hub for teamwork in Office 365. This course will provide an overview of how to use features within Teams such as chat, online meetings, calls and more. Learn the core features of Teams and how it relates to other Office 365 apps to make your team more productive.
Audience profile
The course is for team members and administrators who plan on using Microsoft Teams.
Prerequisites
Basic Windows and Microsoft Office skills are required. No prior Teams experience is necessary.
Course Outline
Module 1 - Microsoft Teams explained
- Best practices of using Teams
- Accessing Teams – web, desktop, or mobile
Module 2 - Navigate the interface
- Navigation bar
- Desktop settings
- Customize notifications
- Adjusting the navigation pane by showing or hiding teams and channels
- Pin important channels for quick access
Module 3 - Create and manage your teams
- Create a team
- Managing team membership and settings
- Managing channels
Module 4 - Manage collaborative conversations with the entire team
- Different options to communicate with members
- Ways to save, like, or edit your own messages
- Use mentions in conversations to grab someone’s attention
Module 5 - Work with documents in Teams
- Upload an existing document
- Create a new document
- Upload a file into a conversation
- Live co-author a document in Teams, online, or in the desktop
- Use conversations to communicate about documents
- Share a file with someone not on the team
Module 7 - Customize your team environment
- Make an important document a tab
- Add a planner tab
- Add a team notebook tab
Module 8 - Manage meetings in Teams
- Start an on-demand channel meeting via conversations
- Schedule a meeting in Teams
- Schedule a meeting using Outlook
Module 9 - Communicate outside of your team
- One on one private conversations
- Share a document with the participants
- Customize the work area with tabs
- Add someone to the conversation
- Escalate the conversation to an audio call
Module 10 - Other key features in Teams
- Understand your activity feed
- Use search in Teams
- Use the / and @ commands
- Files
- Planner
Module 11 – Work with OneDrive for Business
- Navigate the OneDrive interface
- Store personal documents with access anytime, anywhere, any device
- See documents shared with you
- Recover deleted documents
- See your Team documents
- Work with your documents
- Upload an existing document
- Create a new document
- Sync your documents for access without an internet connection
- Live co-author a document online, or in the desktop
- Manage who can work with your documents
- Review documents you have shared
- Stop sharing your documents
- Changing permissions
- Share a file with colleagues