Microsoft Teams everyday: channels, chat, files and meetings

Skills you'll practise

• Choose a standard, private or shared channel, a chat or a new post for a given message
• Say where Teams stores channel files, chat files and meeting recordings
• Use mentions, replies, status and Do not disturb as Microsoft describes them
• Manage a meeting's lobby and roles, announce recordings and end the meeting for everyone
• Tell external access from guest access and act on what each allows

Course outline

1. 1.Microsoft Teams everydayVideo · 2 min
2. 2.Teams, channels, chats and filesLesson · 15 min
3. 3.Meetings: roles, lobby, recording and endingLesson · 15 min
4. 4.People outside your organizationLesson · 13 min
5. 5.Microsoft Teams everyday: channels, chat, files and meetings: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 14 questions
6. 6.Final exam7 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

Sources it draws on

The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.

• Microsoft: Overview of teams and channels in Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft: Manage Teams connected sites and channel sites
• Microsoft: Introduction to file collaboration in Microsoft 365 (chat files in OneDrive, channel files in SharePoint)
• Microsoft: Roles in Microsoft Teams meetings
• Microsoft: Change participant settings for a Microsoft Teams meeting
• Microsoft: Using the lobby in Microsoft Teams meetings
• Microsoft: Use OneDrive and SharePoint for meeting recordings
• Microsoft: Record a meeting in Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft: Communicate with users from other organizations (external access and guest access)
• Microsoft: Use mentions to get someone's attention in Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft: Send or reply to a channel message in Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft: Change your status in Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft: User presence in Teams (Do not disturb and priority access)
• Microsoft: Edit or delete a sent message in Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft: Save a chat or channel message in Microsoft Teams

And 2 more.