Course Description

This introductory course will teach you how to use Microsoft Teams to support collaboration in your organization. In this hands-on training, you'll learn how to navigate the Teams interface, create Teams and Channels to organize projects and topics, and add members with customized permissions.

You'll discover how to initiate chats and group conversations, share files, co-author Office documents, and get the most out of Teams meetings with screen sharing and recording. You'll also learn best practices for using Teams on your mobile device.

By the end of this 1-day training, you'll have the skills to productively use Microsoft Teams for all your collaboration and communication needs.

Target Student

This course is designed for professionals who are new to Microsoft Teams and want to learn the core features and functions.

Prerequisites

No prior experience with Teams is required. Basic computer literacy and knowledge of Microsoft Office programs would be beneficial.

Course Objectives

By the end of this Introduction to Microsoft Teams training course, delegates will be able to:

• Create and Manage a team’s user base
• Work with Channels, Groups and Chats
• Upload files and collaborate
• Communicate with colleagues via chat, video and meetings
• Use Teams on mobile devices

Course Outline

MS Teams Overview

• What is Teams?
• Accessing Teams and the Start Screen

Creating/Managing

• Creating a Team
• Public v Private
• Join/Favorite a Team
• Adding/Reordering/Leaving Teams
• Get link to a team
• Themes
• Team Management
• Adding Members/Owners
• Member/Guest Permissions
• Profile Management
• Team picture

Channels

• Creating/Managing/Viewing a Channel
• Channel Connectors
• Favorites/Follow
• Email to Channel
• Get link to a channel
• Adding Tabs
• Adding Uploaded Excel File to a Tab
• Interacting with Tabbed File

Chat

• Start a Chat
• Activity threads
• 1-1 and Group Private chat
• Message the whole Team
• Add people to a Chat (inc. Guests)
• Formatting and Emojis, Mems, Stickers
• @mention
• Converting Chats to Meetings
• Status indicators

Conversations

• Conversation Thread
• Tag a Person, Channel, Team
• Like a message
• Saved messages
• Mark as unread

Groups

• Create a Group
• Create a Team for an existing group
• Group conversations vs conversations in Teams
• Group Calendar
• Group Planner/Site

Find Content

• Find Chats, Files, People
• Feed filter
• My Activity feed
• Search Commands

File Storage and Management

• Uploading Files
• Sharing files
• Make the File a tab
• Real time collaboration

Communicating

• Using Video or Phone audio
• Meetings/Conference Calls
• Scheduling and Joining Meetings
• Meeting tools
• Share Desktop
• Teams on Mobile IOS/Android
• SharePoint/OneNote integration