Slack - Beginner

Navigate Slack with the left-hand navigation to access channels, direct messages, activity, reminders, canvases, and more, while exploring admin options, apps, keyboard shortcuts, and what's new.

Set and update your presence status in Slack, using active and away options, with calendar-linked updates and emoji hints on your profile to indicate meetings, sick leave, or remote work.

Explore how Slack channels organize work by team, project, or topic through public, private, and shared channels, with threaded conversations, invitations, and paid plan collaborations.

Create and customize Slack channels by using home navigation or the plus sign, choose public or private access, name channels with hyphens or underscores, and add members and descriptions.

Learn how to edit a Slack channel by adding descriptions and topics, managing members and tabs, and configuring integrations and huddles for optimal team workflow.

Master direct messaging in Slack by creating one-on-one and group DMs, accessing conversations from home or the DMs section, and using formatting, media, and invites.

Learn to edit a sent message in Slack using more actions, choose edit message, update content, save, and see the edited indicator in channels and DMs.

Explore Slack huddle basics: start, customize with themes and backgrounds, manage audio and video, share screen, invite teammates, use captions, reactions, and threads for real-time collaboration.

Collaborate in real time on a canvas within Slack, see teammates edit live, add and resolve comments, and tag people to trigger notifications and streamline co-authoring.

Explore how Slack lists function like kanban boards to track projects with templates, create lists from scratch or via csv, and insert them into canvases for collaboration.

Customize your Slack experience by adjusting notifications, keywords, huddles, and reminders. Tweak appearance, navigation, language, accessibility, and connected accounts for a personalized, productive workspace.

Discover how Slack AI enhances search to find weekly sync details, cite threads, and generate related questions from keywords like sales, including quarterly revenue breakdowns.

Discover how AI in Slack summarizes specific threads to reveal the gist of conversations, then apply channel and date-range summaries to catch up.

Use Slack AI to take notes in a huddle, generating a notes canvas with a summary and action items, and saving time-stamped transcripts in the chat for easy sharing.