Microsoft Teams Essentials
Learn Microsoft Teams for optimal online collaboration.
Learn Microsoft Teams for optimal online collaboration.
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All courses are available in-person or remotely.
Learn to use Microsoft Teams for effective collaboration. Share ideas, collaborate on plans and integrate all key apps into your Teams hubs. Wherever your team members are located, Microsoft Teams provides an integrated solution for online collaboration.
Teams is the cornerstone of Microsoft 365 and understanding how to effectively use it will allow you and your team to benefit from its many built-in capabilities.
Our Teams course introduces the broad range of capabilities of Teams to get you up and running. You will learn how to use chat, create channels, schedule video calls, effectively run and participate in virtual meetings, integrate apps, automate approvals, store files and more.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
This introductory course is for those new to Microsoft Teams and is ideal for supporting Microsoft 365 adoption in the workplace.
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
What is Microsoft Teams?
Microsoft Teams is the linchpin of Office 365. Teams is the application to use for online chat, calls, virtual meetings and collaboration. Create different Teams by department, group or project. Stay connected and support teamwork whether working in the office or remotely. It is the key application for successful remote working.
Will the content in this Teams course be relevant going forward?
Yes, our course writers and trainers have industry backgrounds. Our core principle is to deliver training that our students can not only use in the workplace but will actually drive increased efficiency and productivity gains. We have been using Teams internally for a couple of years. All our internal communication goes through teams and it has been integral to our success. Our team are based around Australia but all stay connected, share learnings and reach out to each other via Teams channels.
What is Remote Training?
Remote training at Nexacu, means our team of experienced trainers will deliver your training virtually. Students can access our usual classroom training courses via video conferencing, ask questions, participate in discussion and share their screen with the trainer if they need help at any point in the course. Students have the same level of participation and access to the trainer as they would in classroom training sessions.
What should I do to prepare for my online course?
Install the Microsoft Teams desktop application. To access your Course Guide, log in to your student portal and click on the "Materials" tab.
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