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Microsoft Teams Essentials
(2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, 365)

What You'll Learn in Microsoft Teams Essentials

Course Length:

3 hours (1/2 day)

Learning Objectives

Gain the knowledge and hands-on practice you need to create and manage teams and channels, share files and ideas, schedule meetings, set up audio and video calls, and integrate other services and data.



Increase your productivity, communication, and flexibility as you acquire the skills you need to create and manage teams, share ideas quickly, communicate with chats, audio, or video, schedule meetings, and even add apps to integrate other services. You will:


  • Create teams for a department, a project or for anything you like
  • Use Microsoft Teams to provide a collaborative, cloud-based workspace
  • Create and manage channels to allow users to talk to each other and share information and files
  • Access channels and share files and messages
  • Post, edit, delete and manage messages
  • Bring messages to a specific person’s attention with mentions and announcements
  • Keep detailed information accessible to all team members with the wiki
  • Make video and audio calls using the chat window
  • Create, edit and schedule meetings that will be synchronized with Microsoft Outlook
  • Integrate existing services with features such as connectors, apps and bots

Target Student

All new users to Teams who want to understand what Microsoft Teams is and get up to speed and able to start using it quickly. It will also help more experienced users customize Teams to meet their needs.

Course Outline

Section 1: Getting Started           

Getting Started with Microsoft Teams          

Using Channels          

Posting Messages      

Getting Help with Microsoft Teams   

 

Section 2: Communicating in Channels

Managing Messages

Doing More with Messages

Managing Files in a Channel

Using the Wiki

 

Section 3: Using Other Communication Tools

Using Chat (Part 1)

Using Chat (Part 2)

Managing Meetings

Managing Files in Teams

 

Lesson 4: Customizing Channels

Customizing Channels

Adding Tabs to a Channel

 

Lesson 5: Customizing Your Teams Experience    

Managing Your Teams Profile

Managing Teams          

               

 

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Microsoft Teams Essentials

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