Microsoft Office 365 Teams: Simplify Collaboration within Companies

Get an overview of what is covered in this course. You will get to know Chris, your video trainer. He will explain all important features and functionalities in a step by step and easy-to-follow manner. At this point, it is important to understand that you can collaborate with people from your company, but also with people from outside your organization, like clients, vendors, and freelancers.

Learn how to install Teams. Don't worry, it'll be done quickly. There is an online app, a mobile app and a desktop app for best performance and some extra features like video conferencing and desktop sharing. Install it now and you are ready to go.

Familiarize yourself with the user interface of teams to get an overview of the most important features, functions and buttons. Discover the most important menus in Teams, including windows to follow and manage activities, chats, structural organization in teams and channels, meetings, and file management.

The Teams window is the main place in Microsoft Teams to organize your work more effectively. Think of the Teams window as your main control centre, that enables you to optimize your workflow. Discover its deeper structure with Channels and Tabs that helps you to save a lot of time and always keep the overview.

Once you are an owner or a member of a team, a multitude of different tasks usually arise quickly. Now channels and tabs come into play to provide structure within your teams. So you can arrange different tasks within a team and you never lose the overview again.

Tabs enable a whole range of helpful functions. For example, you can connect Microsoft Teams to other Office apps and even to external apps like websites, Facebook, Twitter, Google Analytics, Trello and many more. Discover the standard tabs 'Conversations', 'Files" and 'Wiki' and learn how to create your own tabs and what exactly you can do with them.

While Team and Channel discussions are visible to all team members, conversations with small groups or an individual are conducted in a chat. Although we are constantly using some sort of chat or texting in our private lives, chat is a realively new concept in the business world. Let's embrace the chat world into our business lives, instead of using help desks or calling a colleague all the time.

To keep track of activities in Teams, you can use the Activities tab. Basically, it's a steadily updating summary of all activities relevant to you - from the teams that you are a member of and the channels that you follow. Never miss a notification again. Be informed immediately when someone mentions you (let's say "@mentions" you), replies to you or likes one of your posts.

Before, when someone organized a meeting, a meeting room and time were blocked out. Today, a meeting is becoming more and more virtual and spontaneous via video conferences. "Let's meet now" is the new approach. Discover how you can easily conduct video conferencing with Teams, including screen sharing.

Discover how you can easily share files and how you can integrate cloud services into your Teams environment to ensure fast and flexible access to your data. First, learn how you can find files by using the search bar or the 'Files' window. Then, Chris explains why downloading files and working on them locally is a thing of the past. Storing them in the cloud and sharing is the new norm.

Your organization can set permissions for who can create or manage teams and whether guests are allowed. This video is for you when you have those access rights or if you want to look behind the scenes. Discover how you can create and edit teams and team permissions.

You will be surprised how well Teams works on a mobile device. First, download the app from the app store. It is available for both, iOS and Android. You'll get helpful tips on dealing with Teams when you're traveling. Discover the different location of the important Teams window at the bottom of the screen and how you can chat, open files, schedule meetings and more.

After completing this training, you and your colleagues are now prepared for a new level of teamwork. In addition, you are now better equipped for future updates and enhancements of Teams.