
Microsoft Teams Essentials
Microsoft Teams Essentials
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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


Microsoft Teams Essentials
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