Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a group collaboration app available to faculty, staff and students through Western's Office 365 Microsoft Campus Agreement. It helps you collaborate using chat and channels to converse and file share. It's a workspace where you and your team can securely upload, share, edit, save files, manage a calendar, see likes, @mentions, and replies. Any documents, spreadsheets, presentations that are shared within a Team are stored in your Team environment so every Team member always has access to the latest version.
Disclaimer: Microsoft Teams is a cloud-hosted system and while its use is optional, all usage must comply with Western's Computing, Technology & Information Resources Policy and Data Classification Standards.
Interested in Teams Training? View these previously recorded training sessions:
Microsoft Teams Level 100 Training Session - March 2021 approx. 90 minutes
Microsoft Teams Level 200 Training Session - August 2021 approx. 90 minutes
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Accessing Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is available through a web browser, desktop and mobile app.
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Intro to Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a collaboration app that helps your team stay organized and have conversations—all in one place.
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Setup and customize your team
Get your team up and running in Microsoft Teams, create a team, add people, and add channels.
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Collaborate in teams and channels
Channels are where you hold meetings, have conversations, and work on files together.
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Work with posts and messages
Create and format a post to start a conversation in a channel, save posts, use @mentions.
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Upload and Share Files
Anywhere in Teams, look for the paperclip icon to attach a file to share to your channel or files area.
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Manage meetings
Join a Microsoft Teams meeting from your calendar, via dial-in number and conference ID, or sign in as a guest on the web.
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Manage your activity feed
How to manage your activity feed for a summary of everything that's happened in the team channels you follow.
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