Slack for beginners: complete guide (2021)

Name: Slack for beginners: complete guide (2021)
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Everything you need to learn about Slack - how to create and manage your own workspace

Created byGuillaume Duhan

Last updated 1/2021

English

What you'll learn

Getting Started with Slack
How to create your workspace
Edit your profile
Invite new members to your workspace
Sign in to your workspace
Start discussions and use threads
Upload & share files
Create, customize & manage channels
Manage settings & administration
Use tools provided by Slack
Add Gmail, Google Drive, Trello & more add-ons

Course content

4 sections • 43 lectures • 3h 50m total length

Introduction1:56
Slack helps people work together and collaborate as easily online as they do in person. It’s designed to support the way people naturally work together, making collaborating with people online as easy and efficient as it is face-to-face.
Create your first Slack9:26
When you create a workspace, you’ll become the Workspace Primary Owner.
Introduction to interface7:00
Let's look at Slack's interface and understand how to use it.
Invite new members to your workspace8:37
How to invite new members in your Slack workspace? We are going to look at how you can invite new members with their mail address.
Edit your profile6:40
Editing your profile is necessary if you want to use Slack efficiently. It's not only for your image; it's also for your teammates.
Sign in and/or reset your password3:29
Once you logout, you have to sign in again to your workspace. Here's how to do.
Create your first channel11:14
Channels are major elements of Slack's workspaces. How to create your first channel? Here's how to do.
Start a discussion and use threads7:21
Slack is a messenger app. It is made to create communication between people. You can start discussions and use thread discussions too.
How to use text editor efficiently6:19
Message formatting helps add detail and clarity to communication in Slack. When you use Slack's automatic formatting, you’ll see exactly what your messages look like before you send them, and you can even add multiple formatting options to the same selection of text.
Upload and share files9:00
Upload and share a file to jumpstart collaboration or gather feedback on your work in progress.
Preferences5:49
How to manage preferences in your Slack workspace?
Customize our workspace4:08
To customise your workspace, choose a new theme, or create your own custom theme.
Make a call5:36
With Slack calls, you can make a voice or video call to any member of your workspace.
Join another Slack7:12
A Slack workspace is a shared hub made up of channels where team members can communicate and work together. When you join a workspace, you'll need to create a Slack account using your email address.
Download Slack app4:24
The Slack desktop app is the best way to experience Slack.
Upgrade your Slack to a paid version8:38
What are paid versions of Slack? Why to upgrade to them? Let's have a look.

Joining your workspace5:43
By default, people need an invitation to join a Slack workspace. Workspace Owners can approve certain email domains so anyone with an approved email address can easily verify their email to create a Slack account.
Manage invitations permissions5:13
By default, all members (but not guests) can invite people to join a Slack workspace. Workspace Owners and Admins can choose to remove members' permission to send invitations.
Manage member roles11:53
Owners and Admins of a workspace or Enterprise Grid organization can assign a role to any member, and even change it later on. Keep reading to learn how.
Choose your workspace language1:48
You can select the default language for members of your Slack workspace or Enterprise Grid org.
Default channels for new members3:50
To help onboard new members of your workspace, you can set default channels for them to automatically join.
Name and mail display in your workspace5:00
Members can use display names to have teammates @mention them in Slack by their first names or nicknames.
"Do not disturb" rules for everybody4:17
When default Do Not Disturb (DND) hours are set for a workspace or Enterprise Grid organization, Slack will not send any desktop or mobile notifications to members during those hours. Setting default DND hours will affect all members of a workspace or org unless they set up their own DND schedule.
Join & leave messages and notifications2:53
In Slack, messages are shown when someone joins or leaves a channel to let other members know who's coming and going. Workspace Owners and Workspace Admins can manage these messages and choose to turn them off if they'd like.
Manage your workspace URL visibility2:55
Your workspace name is displayed in menus and headings throughout Slack. It will usually be (or include) the name of your company.
Allow/disallow calls between members1:25
By default, the phone icon is available for all members to make calls with Slack in your workspace or Enterprise Grid organization. Depending on the plan you’re on, there are a few ways to customize voice and video call settings.
Message retention & deletion (for paid subscriptions)5:58
By default, Slack will retain all messages and files for the lifetime of your workspace. If you’d like, you can have them deleted after a set amount of time.
Files retention & deletion (for paid subscriptions)3:19
Deal with workspace name and URL1:59
Your workspace name is displayed in menus and headings throughout Slack. It will usually be (or include) the name of your company.
Delete your Slack workspace5:16
Deleting a workspace is permanent, and only the Primary Owner can do so.

Set who can use @everyone and @channel2:09
Channel management2:37
Owners of a workspace or Enterprise Grid organization can choose who's allowed to create and archive channels, plus remove other members from them.
Share channel requests (for paid subscriptions)2:24
By default, Workspace Owners and Workspace Admins on the Standard and Plus plans and Org Owners and Org Admins on the Enterprise Grid plan can manage shared channels.
User groups (for paid subscriptions)6:08
Users groups can help you to build new kind of teams instead of channels.
Message editing & deletion1:17
By default, all members can edit and delete their own messages and thread replies. If they'd like, Workspace Owners and Admins can change these permissions. Here's what they can adjust:
Workspace Owners and Admins can set a timeframe for editing messages.
Only Workspace Owners can set message deletion permissions.
Last interesting options of permissions2:38
Let's look at the last options of permissions together.

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Description

Do you know Slack? This app used by start-ups or big companies becomes more and more famous!

Why? Because it is an easy tool that allows you to communicate with your colleagues or your team in private. Slack has been made for big organisations like Nasa, Nintendo or Adobe. This type of organisation always need channels to communicate. Moreover, they need to share sensitive data or files: Slack is very efficient for this. Slack aims to replace e-mails and they've succeed.

If you start a company or a start-up, you MUST add Slack to your work process!

What is Slack?

Slack is essentially a chat room for your whole company, designed to replace email as your primary method of communication and sharing. Its workspaces allow you to organize communications by channels for group discussions and allows for private messages to share information, files, and more all in one place.

Why to use Slack?

Slack is a collaboration software tool that allows teams to work together to share information and communicate through calls. Slack features organized conversations, a searchable history, and allows teams to work with external users. This course will provide an in-depth look at Slack, including joining a workspace and working with channels. It will also look at how to send and view messages as well as make calls to others. Finally, it will look at how to share files and to improve efficiencies search techniques and shortcuts.

In this course, we are going to explore the whole application. We are going to create our own Slack, to customise our workspace, to manage settings and administration and to create channels for our teams to share and to communicate.

At the end of this course, you'll be able to create and to manage your own Slack's workspace.

Who this course is for:

everybody

Slack for beginners: complete guide (2021)

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