Microsoft Teams Intermediate

Audience profile
The course provides a thorough understanding of how to use Teams. It is intended for the user that wants to understand all the functionality in Teams, as well as for the user that may support an organization that is migrating to Teams.

Prerequisites
Basic Windows and Microsoft Office skills are required. Prior Teams experience is helpful.

Course Outline

Module 1 -Microsoft Teams explained
Best practices of using Teams
Ways to access teams

Module 2 - Navigate the interface
Add and remove apps from the navigation bar
Desktop settings
Customize notifications
Adjusting the navigation pane by showing or hiding teams and channels
Pin important channels for quick access

Module 3 - Create and manage a team
Create or join a team
Managing Teams, and Members
Modifying the team's settings
Leave a team
Edit the team
Change privacy level of the team
Delete the team

Module 4 - Channel menu
Add Channels
Channel notifications
Pin a channel
Hide a channel
Work with channels
Delete the channel

Module 5 - Posts Tab in a team
Different options to communicate with members
Announcements in conversations
Post a message across multiple channels
Turn off notifications for a conversation
Set a message as Important
Use tags to notify multiple members

Module 6 - Files tab in a team
Add files to a conversation
Editing and Collaborating on Files
Live co-authoring of Team documents
Using conversations in the editing
Using comments
Editing Online, In the desktop, or in Teams
Sharing Files with someone not on the team
Version history of a document

Module 7 - Customize your Team environment
Channel calendar
Planner
Website
Other connectors

Module 8 - Calendar, manage meetings and appointments
Calendar views and navigation
Schedule a channel meeting
Scheduling Meetings and Inviting Colleagues inside Teams
Cancel a meeting
Meeting controls
Record a meeting
Show device settings
Share your desktop

Module 9 - Chat, Communicating outside of your Team
Manage your recent conversations
Pin a chat
Favorite Contacts
Create a new contact group
Start a new chat
Working with Messages
Send a message as urgent
See if a message has been read
Attach file into a conversation to collaborate
Schedule a meeting with everyone in the chat
Collaborate on documents
See the organization around a colleague
See activities you have in common with a colleague
Customize chat environment
Adding someone to the conversation
Escalate a chat to a meeting

Module 10 - Other navigation bar tabs

Activity Icon
View your colleague's activities across your teams
View only your own activity
Use the filter to filter by keyword, or other types of activities

Files Icon
Recent
Microsoft Teams
Downloads
OneDrive
Add cloud storage

Three dots menu - Other Apps
Planner
OneNote

Module 11 - OneDrive
OneDrive for Business
OneDrive settings
Sync OneDrive
Move or copy documents to other locations
Request files folder
Access OneDrive and Team documents from the desktop applications
Create new documents from desktop applications
Share a PDF from the desktop applications