Microsoft Teams: Use Teams & Channels

Course description

This course introduces learners to the foundational structure of Microsoft Teams, focusing on how to create, join, and manage teams and channels for effective collaboration. Learners begin by understanding what a team is—a shared space where people, content, and tools come together around a common goal or project. The course demonstrates how to create new teams from scratch or from existing Microsoft 365 groups, copy team templates, or join teams using a code or public listing. It explains the differences between private, public, and organization-wide teams and guides learners through naming, describing, and adding members to new teams while assigning roles such as owners and members. The next section focuses on team management, showing how to add or remove users, modify roles, and access the Manage Team page to configure permissions, adjust member capabilities, and control access for guests. Learners explore settings for mentions, fun content like GIFs and stickers, analytics, and security features such as team codes. The course also provides practical insights into managing team structure, including adding or deleting channels, renaming teams, and applying custom images. Finally, the course explores how channels organize communication by topic or project, detailing how to create, pin, and manage standard, shared, or private channels. Learners discover how each channel automatically includes Posts, Files, and Notes tabs to streamline teamwork. By the end, learners will know how to confidently build and organize collaborative spaces using Teams and Channels in Microsoft Teams.

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