Microsoft Teams Essentials

Course subjects

Introduction

• What is Microsoft Teams?

• Accessing the Web Version of Teams

• Accessing the Teams Mobile App

• Opening the Teams Desktop Client

Creating a Team

• Create a Private Team

• Private Teams V Public Teams

• Team Members & Owners

• Structure of a Team

• Channels

• Tabs

• Keyboard shortcuts

• Personal settings

Working with Teams

• Get a link to a team

• Get a link to a channel

• Links for non-team members

Private Chats in Teams

• Teams Chat

• Organising Chats

• Status Indicators

• Priority people when Do Not Disturb is set

• Saving Posts and Chats

• Reading Saved Messages

• Sharing Files in Chats

• Working Asynchronously

• Alerts in Teams for Urgent Work

Audio & Video Meetings in Chats

• Video and Audio Chats & Meetings

• Sharing Screens

Working in Teams Channels

• Posts in Channels

• Mentions in Posts

• Post Reactions

• Post Actions Menu

• Organise Teams, Channels and Chats

• Sending emails to Teams

• Remove a channel's Email address

Working with Files in Teams

• Files in Channels

• SharePoint Libraries and Teams Files

• Creating a new Document inside a Team

• Collaborating on Files

• Conversation on a File

• Comments in a Document

• Files App in Teams

• OneDrive in Teams

• Moving Files between OneDrive and Teams and SharePoint Libraries

Meetings In Teams

• Creating a Meeting in Calendar

• Creating a Scheduled Meeting in a Channel

• Starting an ad hoc meeting in a Channel

• Checking your Audio & Video Device settings

• Make a Test Call

• Send a Meeting Link

• Setting Meeting Options

• Meeting Lobby

• Reactions in Meetings

• Chat in Meetings

Meetings In Teams (cont'd)

• Meetings App

• Pre-loading Polls in a Meeting

• Meeting Notes

• Sharing screens

• Sharing Screens v Sharing Windows

• Using Whiteboard

• Using PowerPoint Live

• Recording Meetings

• Transcripts

• Gallery & Together Mode

Working with Tasks in Teams

• Working with Tasks in Teams

• Tasks from Todo and Planner in Teams

• Working with Planner App in Teams

• Creating a New Plan

• Buckets and Cards

• Assigning Tasks with Cards

• Using Cards instead of messages

• Tracking the Status of your Plans

• Creating Tasks from Posts

Capturing Knowledge for Reuse

• OneNote in Teams

• Creating Notebooks

• Creating Sections

• Creating Pages

• Using OneNote for Meetings

• Assigning Tasks from Meetings Minutes in OneNote

• Sharing OneNote Notebooks

• Wiki untangled

• Wiki in a channel

• Personal Wiki

• Wiki elsewhere in O365

• Collaborating with the Wiki App Using @mentions in Wiki

Apps in Teams

• Apps in Microsoft Teams

• Chat and Channel Tab Apps

• Bot Apps

• App in a Team Channel

• Using the MS Forms Channel Bot

• Creating a quick poll with the Forms Bot

• Connector Apps

• Adding an RSS Connector

• Modifying a Connector Messaging Apps

• Adding a Messaging App

• Personal Apps

Approvals in Teams

• Creating a Basic Approval Request

• Custom Responses in Approvals

• Approval Templates

• Create an Approval Form from a Template

• Assign an Approval to a Team

• Export Approval Records

Managing a Team

• Managing Team Members Pending requests to join a team

• Guests in Teams

• Limitations for Guests Restricting Guests via Administration

• Settings for a Team

• Uploading a Team Picture Member permissions

• Default permissions

• Guest permissions

• @mention settings

• Turn off @mentions

Managing a Team (cont'd)

• Fun stuff

• Emojis

• Stickers

• Animated GIFs

• How a Team code works

• Reset a code

• Remove a code

• Using a Team Code

• Archive your team

• Read only archived team

• Restore an archived team