Mastering Microsoft Teams (2020)
What you'll learn
- Describe the role and function of Microsoft Teams
- Create and manage Teams and Channels, including Private Channels, Notifications, and Tags
- Identify uses for Chatbots, Connectors, Shifts, and Whiteboard
- Start and manage scheduled or ad-hoc Meetings and Live Events, and use the Calls feature of Teams as a phone system
- Work with files including uploading, editing, and sharing
- Setup and edit a Wiki
- Add custom tabs to Channels and Chats including files and Apps
- Discuss the use of external users (Guests) in Teams, including limitations
Requirements
- An account for Office 365 is recommended
Description
Become an expert at using Microsoft Teams to chat, collaborate, and get things done
The ability for teams to work together productively is perhaps the most important function in any business, and it’s the central focus of the Microsoft Teams application.
From file sharing and co-editing to video calls, persistent chat, screen sharing, and more, learn how Microsoft Teams gives you the tools to stay in touch and get work done with your colleagues and partners.
Updated for 2020, this course includes new and updated material, including Private Channels, Live Meetings, Shifts, Whiteboard, and Calls. We also discuss best practices for getting the most from your Microsoft Teams.
While it’s simple to use, Teams has a tremendous set of features to offer any team, and in this course we’ll cover it all—from getting started to adding external users and third-party connectors.
Who this course is for:
- Office 365 users
- Teams users
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Course content
- Preview08:46
- 08:05Getting Started and Feed
- Preview08:31
- 06:38Teams Overview, Part 2
Instructor
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Bigger Brains Founder and President Chip Reaves is a serial entrepreneur who has started five successful companies. An Atlanta native, Chip began fixing computers for small businesses in the 1980's while studying Computer Science at Georgia Tech. After 10 years building a successful IT Service Practice in Atlanta, Chip founded the Computer Troubleshooters franchise system alongside Wilson & Suzanne McOrist, which became the world's largest computer service franchise and received multiple awards from Entrepreneur Magazine, Franchise Business Review, and AllBusiness.
Chip has been interviewed on TV and other major media on topics related to small business technology and entrepreneurship, including ABC News, BusinessWeek TV, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times, and is a member of Jim Blasingame's "Brain Trust" on SmallBusinessAdvocate. In 2010 Chip was listed among the Top 150 most influential people in small business IT by SMB PC magazine.
Chip lives with his wife Maren and step-daughter Meg in Anderson, South Carolina where they also co-own a Computer Troubleshooters franchise location. In his spare time Chip is very active with his church and local charities, and consults with two aid organizations serving Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa.