Microsoft Teams-Teams - Course Outline

Teams - Course Outline
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This course teaches users how to effectively use Microsoft Teams for communication and collaboration. It begins with the basics of getting started, including signing in and out, understanding the interface, viewing and filtering the activity feed, and setting or resetting your status and status messages.<br /><br />The Chats section covers initiating conversations in several ways (new chats, recent chats, contacts, and replying to incoming messages). Learners also practice formatting chat messages using rich text tools, quick formatting options, and priority settings such as important or urgent messages, along with adding emojis, GIFs, and stickers. It also explains how to create and manage group chats by inviting participants or leaving a group. Chat management features include pinning, muting, and hiding chats, as well as sharing files and viewing shared content within a chat.<br /><br />The Teams portion focuses on joining or creating teams, working with channels, and participating in channel conversations. It includes following channels, creating new channels, and using engagement tools like liking and saving messages. File collaboration is addressed through viewing channel libraries, creating documents, uploading files, and sharing links. Administrative topics include managing team membership and roles, removing members, leaving teams, editing team settings, adjusting permissions, changing team pictures, and generating team codes. The course also introduces using and editing wikis, mentioning colleagues, and starting section conversations.<br /><br />Meetings training includes scheduling, joining from channels or the calendar, and leaving meetings. Users learn meeting management skills such as viewing conversations and participants, inviting others, muting or removing attendees, taking and reviewing meeting notes, recording meetings, adjusting audio/video settings (including background blur and device selection), sharing screens or presentations, and editing or cancelling meetings.<br /><br />Finally, the Calls and Tools/Settings sections teach making, receiving, holding, and transferring calls; managing voicemail and call history; organizing contacts and speed dial; updating the app; changing profile and Teams settings; managing files across Teams and cloud storage; and adding or removing apps and tabs.
Keywords
Microsoft Teams
Teams chat
group chats
channels
team creation
file sharing
collaboration tools
meeting scheduling
screen sharing
calls and voicemail