Course Overview
TOPMicrosoft Teams is a full collaboration platform and offers facilities for peer to peer collaboration as well as full team collaboration. This course will give guidance on how to use the tools for chat, file sharing, meetings and calls. The course will also give direction on best practices for sharing files with external parties and show how to access other services available in the tenant directly from within Teams. There will be a series of labs to practice the methods taught during the course.
Scheduled Classes
TOPOutline
TOPModule 1: An introduction to Teams
- What is Teams?
- How to use Teams
- Team components
- When to use Teams
- Creating a new Team
- An introduction to Groups
- Lab 1: Introduction to Teams
- Create a new Team in the web browser
- Download the Teams desktop application
- Download the Teams mobile app for your phone
Module 2:Collaborating with Teams
- Joining a Team
- Team permissions
- Guest permissions
- Channels
- Private channels
- Private channel structure
- Channel posts
- @mentions
- Channel announcements
- Channel notifications
- Manage a channel
- Email a channel
- Tabs
- Lab 1: Collaboration with Teams
- Add a channel to a Team
- Add a private channel
- Have a conversation with the Team
- Respond to a conversation
Module 3: Chat within Teams
- Changing your status
- Peer to peer chat
- Pop out chat
- Organising chats
- Video calls
- During a call
- Managing a call
- Lab 1: Chat within Teams
- Chat with other students
- Convert a chat to an audio call
- Rename a group chat
- Have a video call
Module 4: Meetings in Teams
- Scheduling meetings
- Schedule a meeting from Outlook
- Schedule a meeting from within Teams
- Adding a meeting to a channel
- Options during a meeting
- Accepting external guests to a meeting
- Who can present in a meeting?
- Recording a meeting
- Benefits of saving a meeting to a channel
- Lab 1: Meetings in Teams
- Schedule a meeting in Teams
- Join a meeting
- Take notes during a meeting
Module 5: Working with files
- Files in Teams
- Adding files to a channel
- Creating new files
- Uploading files
- Chat about a file
- Co-authoring
- Moving or copy files
- Sharing files
- Share an individual file
- Share a folder of files
- Sync files
- Check out files
- SharePoint document library tab
- OneDrive in Teams
- Lab 1: Working with files
- Create a new document
- Have a conversation about a file
- Share documents with someone outside your Team
Module 6: Team settings and addins
- Activity alerts
- My activity
- Feed
- Setting your location
- Manage notifications
- Priority access for do not disturb
- Immersive reader
- Calls
- Manage a Team
- Members
- Channels
- Settings
- Apps
- Analytics
- Bots
- Archiving a Team
- Restore an archived Team
- Search
- Lab 1: Teams settings and addins
- Change notification settings
- Add new members to your Team
- Archive the Team
Prerequisites
TOP- There are no prerequisites for this End User Course however a basic knowledge of Microsoft 365 and OneDrive for Business may be advantageous.
Who Should Attend
TOPThe intended audience for this course are Power Users who will need to support the user base, advise on functionality and when to use what tool for the right collaboration need.