This course provides a more in-depth review of Teams for individuals who are a lead Teams user or who work in a support role for the department or organization. Learn about Teams setting, options for Posts and Files, customizing the Team Environment, managing meetings and appointments, working with members outside of your organization as well as working with SharePoint and OneDrive.
Audience profile
The course provides a thorough understanding of how to use Teams. It is intended for the user that wants to understand all the functionality in Teams, as well as for the user that may support an organization that is migrating to Teams.
Prerequisites
Basic Windows and Microsoft Office skills are required. Prior Teams experience is helpful.
Course Outline
Module 1 -Microsoft Teams explained
- Best practices of using Teams
- Ways to access teams
Module 2 - Navigate the interface
- Add and remove apps from the 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 a team
- Create or join a team
- Managing Teams, and Members
- Modifying the team's settings
- Leave a team
- Edit the team
- Change privacy level of the team
- Delete the team
Module 4 - Channel menu
- Add Channels
- Channel notifications
- Pin a channel
- Hide a channel
- Work with channels
- Delete the channel
Module 5 - Posts Tab in a team
- Different options to communicate with members
- Announcements in conversations
- Post a message across multiple channels
- Turn off notifications for a conversation
- Set a message as Important
- Use tags to notify multiple members
Module 6 - Files tab in a team
- Add files to a conversation
- Editing and Collaborating on Files
- Live co-authoring of Team documents
- Using conversations in the editing
- Using comments
- Editing Online, In the desktop, or in Teams
- Sharing Files with someone not on the team
- Version history of a document
Module 7 - Customize your Team environment
- Channel calendar
- Planner
- Website
- Other connectors
Module 8 - Calendar, manage meetings and appointments
- Calendar views and navigation
- Schedule a channel meeting
- Scheduling Meetings and Inviting Colleagues inside Teams
- Cancel a meeting
- Meeting controls
- Record a meeting
- Show device settings
- Share your desktop
Module 9 - Chat, Communicating outside of your Team
- Manage your recent conversations
- Pin a chat
- Favorite Contacts
- Create a new contact group
- Start a new chat
- Working with Messages
- Send a message as urgent
- See if a message has been read
- Attach file into a conversation to collaborate
- Schedule a meeting with everyone in the chat
- Collaborate on documents
- See the organization around a colleague
- See activities you have in common with a colleague
- Customize chat environment
- Adding someone to the conversation
- Escalate a chat to a meeting
Module 10 - Other navigation bar tabs
- Activity Icon
- View your colleague's activities across your teams
- View only your own activity
- Use the filter to filter by keyword, or other types of activities
- Files Icon
- Recent
- Microsoft Teams
- Downloads
- OneDrive
- Add cloud storage
- Three dots menu - Other Apps
- Planner
- OneNote
Module 11 - OneDrive
- OneDrive for Business
- OneDrive settings
- Sync OneDrive
- Move or copy documents to other locations
- Request files folder
- Access OneDrive and Team documents from the desktop applications
- Create new documents from desktop applications
- Share a PDF from the desktop applications
