Microsoft 365 Teams - Beginner

Discover how Microsoft 365 Teams serves as a centralized hub for conversations, meetings, file sharing, and app integrations, accessible via desktop, web, and mobile.

Explore navigating Microsoft Teams with a customizable left rail, access activities, calendar, chat, teams, and pinned apps, and use the dynamic search and command bar for efficient collaboration.

Learn how to view and manually manage your presence status in Microsoft Teams, including real-time updates, duration timers, calendar syncing, location indicators, and status messages.

Master Microsoft Teams chat by pinning and arranging conversations, distinguishing group and one-on-one chats, managing meetings, muting, unpinning, starting new chats with shortcuts, and understanding chat history retention.

Learn how to send and manage messages in Microsoft 365 Teams, use chat and formatting tools, loop components, attachments, emojis, reactions, and pin or schedule messages.

Attach files in Teams chat from cloud or OneDrive, with share options, permissions, expiration, and a link that can be added as a tab in the chat.

Create a group chat, rename it, customize its picture, add members with optional chat history, share files, add tabs, and start a meet now call for quick collaboration.

Start a meeting on the spot in Microsoft Teams with meet now from chat, channels, calendar, or calls.

Schedule Microsoft Teams meetings from calendar, chat, or channels, choosing attendees, recurrence, time zones, and lobby settings. Explore options for recording, transcription, co-organizers, presenters, and Outlook invites.

Join a Microsoft Teams meeting and tailor video, audio, and backgrounds with effects and avatars. Access meeting chat, participants, notes, copilot, sharing, and recording with transcription.

Manage meeting participants in Teams: view attendee status, mute, pin, invite via link or email, download attendance csv, lock the meeting, and switch between gallery, speaker, and together views.

Microsoft Teams creates a meeting chat with history, recaps, and recordings, accessible during and after the meeting, while loop meeting notes handle agenda and follow-up tasks.

Share your screen in Microsoft Teams using the share content pane with sound. Select presenter modes like content only, standout, side by side, or reporter; use whiteboard.

Enhance meetings by using polls and forms to craft, save as draft, or launch polls, and preloading them as a tab with attachable apps like whiteboards, OneNote, and PowerPoint.

Record and transcribe a Microsoft Teams meeting, with admin-optional transcription, and access recordings and transcripts from chat or meeting details while managing expiration.

discover how to create and manage breakout rooms in Microsoft 365 Teams, automatically or manually assign participants, rename rooms, send announcements, and return everyone to the main meeting.

Learn how to create or join a team in Microsoft 365 Teams, set its purpose, choose a team type, name the first channel, and add members and owners.

Navigate the team settings to manage a microsoft 365 team: add or remove members, adjust channels and permissions, and handle team codes.

Explore organizing conversations with channels, creating standard, shared, or private channels, and using posts, files, and notes tabs to collaborate; learn pinning and basic channel management.

Learn to use conversation posts within teams to share updates, tag colleagues, attach files and media, and manage announcements with reactions, comments, pins, and a planner task.

Discover how to create and manage tags in Microsoft 365 Teams to group people, mention tags in channels or chats, and notify members with targeted updates.

Learn to share and manage files in Microsoft 365 teams, including uploading to the files tab or posting with auto-upload to files, plus SharePoint integration and OneDrive sync.

Pin tabs at the top of a channel to quickly access apps and documents like OneNote notebooks, Excel spreadsheets, or PDFs, and add or rename tabs with the plus sign.

Learn how a team creates a linked SharePoint site in Microsoft 365 and access it from Teams to customize documents, navigation, and views.

Learn to use loop components in channels to edit in real time and collaborate on kanban boards and tables, creating living documents that anyone in the channel can edit.

Enable Immersive Reader in Teams to have posts and chats read aloud, adjust voice and speed, and customize text size, theme, and language with parts of speech highlighting and translation.

Explore how the search and command bar in Microsoft Teams finds messages, files, and people and executes quick commands like do not disturb and sending chats.

Explore the calls tab in Microsoft 365 Teams, including Meet Now, speed dial, and contact filtering. Learn to manage call history, call forwarding, voicemail greetings, and out-of-office AI greetings.

Discover how tasks by planner and to do unify personal tasks, shared plans, and team workflows in Microsoft Teams; create plans and access all tasks in one location.

Explore Microsoft 365 Teams settings, adjusting general preferences, appearance, privacy, devices, captions, files, and app permissions to tailor meetings and communications.

Customize Microsoft Teams notifications by using settings or the activity bell to adjust sounds, banners, urgent priority contacts, missed activity emails, and notifications for chats, channels, and meetings.

Create and customize avatars in Teams, adjusting skin tone, facial features, makeup, hair, outfits, and prosthetics, then use them in meetings with backgrounds and reactions.

Access your OneDrive inside Teams, browse recent files with type and person filters, create or move documents, and share them easily in chats or channels.

Master using chat, calendar and meetings, and creating and managing teams and channels. Add apps to channels and work with OneDrive inside Teams.