Microsoft Teams: Your Central Place for Communication and Collaboration

This Microsoft Teams tutorial teaches the best communication and collaboration techniques used by professionals in top industries. The course provides tools to help you reach the next stage of your career as you learn how to build and manage teams digitally. We explain how Microsoft Teams closes gaps that slow down communication and collaboration by enabling users to create virtual teams with centralised access to project-related data. Now you can chat, post announcements and share files easily through the themed channels available in Microsoft Teams.In addition, all team members can see and update files because they are automatically saved in the associated SharePoint document library. Everyone in your company can now be reached via one-on-one or group chats in audio and video calls.

The course introduces you to the basics of Microsoft Teams and demonstrates how to turn it to your advantage. We outline the program’s installation, interface and primary features. You can also download resource files and exercises from the ‘Resources’ section to practise as you learn. The course then moves on to the Microsoft Teams Ribbon and its components to help you conduct structured conversations using the ‘Posts’, ‘Files’ and ‘Wiki’ tabs. We explain how to build teams and channels effectively with Microsoft Teams, which enables you to keep track of your team’s work and stay up to date.

Video demonstrations show you how to create and edit teams, set team permissions, add members and assign team owner roles. We then outline how to conduct ad-hoc or scheduled video conferences, starting with testing your equipment in advance to make sure it meets their technical requirements. Our final topic provides effective and efficient ways to help you use Microsoft Teams on mobile devices so you can connect with colleagues while on the go. This powerful and popular communication tool offers ease, flexibility, convenience and professionalism to help you manage workplace teamwork and enhance communication and cooperation.