Microsoft Teams for Beginners - Comprehensive Teams Course

This course includes downloadable course instructor files to follow along.

Microsoft Teams 365 for Beginners introduces the communication platform that many hybrid and remote teams now rely on every day. This course explains how chat, meetings, channels, and file sharing fit together, so you can work from one place instead of jumping between separate apps.

The course starts by addressing the confusion that can be an obstacle for new users, such as mixing up chats, channels, and calls, or not knowing where shared files actually live. Beginning with a walkthrough of the app layout, your profile and status settings, and the difference between a private chat and a channel post.

From there, you learn how to build practical skills in messaging, formatting, and file collaboration. Learning to create teams and channels with the right privacy settings, manage notifications, and search across messages, files, and people. Meeting skills follow this, as we look at scheduling, backgrounds, audio setup, and screen sharing.

These practical skills change the way you use Teams. Drafting a message in a private chat before posting it to a wider channel, co-authoring a document with a colleague in real time, and presenting slides in a meeting using PowerPoint Live and a laser pointer. You will also learn how to set up a webinar with registration and branding for a larger audience.

By the end, you will understand how to effectively use Microsoft Teams, hold and attend meetings, and manage your files and messages with confidence. This course suits office workers, new hires, and anyone moving into hybrid or remote work who wants a solid, practical start with Teams.

What You'll Learn:

• Distinguish between chats, channels, and calls when starting conversations.

• Customize your status message to show availability and context.

• Apply text formatting, tables, and hyperlinks inside Teams messages.

• Attach and manage file permissions when sharing documents in chat.

• Configure standard, private, and shared channels for different audiences.

• Post announcements and reply within threads to keep discussions organised.

• Add and manage members, guests, and owners within a team.

• Co-author documents in real time using version history and comments.

• Set up a scheduled meeting using the built-in Scheduler tool.

• Adjust audio, video backgrounds, and screen sharing during meetings.

• Present slides and spreadsheets live using PowerPoint Live and Excel Live.

• Filter global search results by person, date, and file type.

This course includes:

1. 2 hours of video tutorials

2. 23 bite-sized, individual video lectures

3. Course Instructor Files

4. Certificate of Completion

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Here’s what our students are saying…

"I was already using Teams as part of my daily work but I was curious to discover all the potential of the tool via this course and I was not disappointed. The course is well structured and the explanations are very clear. I could certainly recommend it not only for beginners but also for people like me that would like to improve their knowledge of the tool."

- Edelmiro

"Pleasantly surprised with the quality of this course. It's packed with information, and well organized into bite-size modules. The explanations are clear, and the instructors supply detailed real-world examples as illustrations. Highly recommended if you're looking to brush up your MS Office knowledge, or push it to the next level."
- Mike

"So far, this class is great; it is exactly the speed I need. I like that I can pause the video and try something or go back and watch it again if I missed something. So much better than the 8-hour classes where the instructor breezes through everything in a whirlwind! "
- Christy Sobczak