Microsoft Teams Basic Training

What is Microsoft Teams?

Microsoft Teams is a collaboration app that helps your team stay organized and have conversations—all in one place. Here's a quick look at the left-hand side of Teams.

Teams - Find channels to belong to or create your own. Inside channels you can hold on-the-spot meetings, have conversations, and share files.

Meetings - See everything you’ve got lined up for the day or week. Or, schedule a meeting. This calendar syncs with your Outlook calendar.

Calls - In some cases, if your organization has it set up, you can call anyone from Teams, even if they’re not using Teams.

A team can be created for your course site by contacting edtech@brocku.ca. The Team will include your course roster but you can add additional members such as TAs as well.

Note that MS Teams is good for video and virtual meeting spaces, but we do not recommend it as a replacement Learning Management System and encourage instructors to continue to use Sakai as the space for course content, assignment submission and grades. We have administrative access to Sakai in ways we do not in MS Teams and Teams is not yet fully developed with post-secondary education in mind.

Microsoft Teams: Meeting, Members and Video

We recommend newcomers to MS Teams review this basic visual guide to the options in MS Teams as it can be used by educators: Teams for Education Quick Guide

The following link is to some introductory video tutorials for MS Teams: Microsoft support: How to use Teams

Using the web to access Teams? We recommend using Google Chrome as a web browser to do so, some functionality can be limited in Safari and Firefox.

Note that being logged into your Brock account will make a difference in what is available to you in Teams (if you have downloaded the desktop app, once set up, it will automatically log in to your Brock account). Logging into Teams via your Brock account will allow you to access a more robust set of features. The easiest way to do so through the web is to go to your Brock email (Outlook) and select the nine dots in the upper left hand corner, that will bring you to a suite of MS apps, of which Teams is one.

Select the nine dots in the upper left corner to reveal the most popular apps used in the Microsoft office suite.

This is the list of Apps in Microsoft Office. Select Teams.

More questions about Teams?

  Add a link to Teams in Sakai

  Add a member to a Teams site

  Archiving and Restoring Course Teams Sites

  Create a recurring meeting in Teams

  Create a Team

  Create Group Channels in Teams

  For Instructors - Getting Started with Teams

  Functions within a Teams meeting

  Get Teams Attendance Report

  Hold office hours with Teams

  Invite students to a Teams class meeting

  Join a Teams class meeting

  Microsoft Teams Basic Training

  More Actions (...) in a Teams meeting

  Schedule a Webinar

  Start a Teams meeting with your project group

  Teams Meeting Options

  Teams recordings information

  Teams Standard and Private Channels (Groups)

  Upload your Teams recording to Sakai

  What is Teams?

  Where is Teams?

This page is adapted from the Microsoft Office Support Site