Microsoft 365 Groups Essentials (2021)

The essential guide to team collaboration with Microsoft’s social productivity solution

Created byBigger Brains

Last updated 2/2025

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What you'll learn

Access Groups through Microsoft Apps and create, join, delete, or modify a group.
Use Scheduling Assistant to find meeting times for all G roup members and create group calendars.
Share files with the Group securely.
Follow and refer to conversations and send messages.
Use Connectors to add information from outside sources .

Course content

1 section • 7 lectures • 1h 0m total length

01- Intro to Groups8:25
02- Conversations in Groups6:38
Learn to use a Microsoft 365 group as an inbox, compose and reply to messages, attach files, and configure the group to receive emails from outside the organization.
03- Groups Calendar5:18
Explore how to use the group calendar in Microsoft 365 to schedule events, invite group members with Teams meetings, and edit or cancel collaboratively.
04- Files in Groups Part 111:28
Discover how SharePoint underpins file storage in Microsoft 365 Groups, enabling uploading, sharing, and linking across Outlook and Teams, with features like version history and pin to top.
05- Files in Groups Part 210:22
Master how to manage and share group files in Microsoft 365 Groups, including links or copies, and access via Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, and OneNote notebooks.
06- Groups Connectors7:34
Connect your Office 365 groups to a range of cloud apps via connectors, enabling notifications from Twitter, Asana, and more. Manage connectors via settings.
07- Managing Groups10:30

Requirements

Access to a Microsoft 365 account is recommended

Description

Microsoft 365’s powerful Groups feature helps your team talk, plan, and collaborate.

Microsoft Office has no shortage of ways for groups to work together. From spreadsheet sharing to social media tools like Yammer and Delve and collaboration platforms like SharePoint, Microsoft has plenty of tools to help people work as a team.

Microsoft 365 Groups is a powerful tool in coordinating and communicating with the team. Anyone can create their own Group or join an existing one. Inside they’ll find shared conversations, shared calendar, and shared Files. Groups integrate with users’ existing email, calendars, and OneDrive, and with special Connectors. Any Microsoft 365 Group can integrate with other cloud platforms such as Twitter, Bing News, GitHub, and ZenDesk.

Getting up to speed on all the power that Groups has to offer is critical to leveraging Groups properly within an organization.

Topics covered include:

Accessing Groups through various apps
Sharing files
Coordinating meetings and sharing calendars
Leveraging Connectors to add information from outside sources
Managing and securing your Office 365 Group

Microsoft 365 Groups Essentials (2021) from Bigger Brains is also part of the Mastering Office 365 course. For additional features related to Groups also check out Office 365 Planner Essentials from Bigger Brains.

Over an hour of high-quality HD content in the “Uniquely Engaging”TM Bigger Brains Teacher-Learner style!

Objectives. You will be able to:

Access Groups through Microsoft Apps and create, join, delete, or modify a group.
Use Scheduling Assistant to find meeting times for all Group members and create group calendars.
Share files with the Group securely.
Follow and refer to conversations and send messages.
Use Connectors to add information from outside sources.

Who this course is for:

People who want to learn about Microsoft 365 groups