Overview
Microsoft Teams is a powerful team-based collaboration tool that provides group chat, channeled conversations, instant messaging, live document collaboration, audio or video calls, and meetings (from one-on-ones to fully-featured audio/video conferences). Persistent histories make it easy to review past conversations and shared documents.
Download the Teams app for Windows or Mac for the best usage experience, however, mobile apps are available for iOS, and Android devices from their app stores.
Teams works in conjunction with other Microsoft applications such as OneDrive, and Office 365.
Teams Features and Support Resources:
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Chat – One-on-one or group conversations via text, audio, or video.
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Meetings and Live Events – Schedule and invite participants to audio and video conference-based meetings or live-streamed events. Teams meetings synchronize automatically with Outlook.
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Webinars – Schedule and invite participants to a more controlled online meeting.
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Activity Feed – View recent activities in Teams and search for specific conversations, files, people, and more.
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Channels – Focus your Team's discussions by creating specific channels to hold conversations, meetings, and collaborate on files.
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Files – View, edit, and collaborate on OneDrive files inside of Teams.
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Tabs – Add content or features to a chat or channel.
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Teams Apps – Add functionality to Microsoft Teams.
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Shifts – Create, manage, and update schedules for your Team.
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Forms – Create an instant, real-time poll in seconds to gather feedback from meetings or events.
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Whiteboard - The collaborative digital canvas in Microsoft 365 for effective meetings and engaging learning. The Teams Whiteboard works exceptionally well to convey information that requires visual representation, such as mathematical equations.
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Walkie Talkie - Use your Teams mobile app for voice communication.
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Approvals - Streamline your requests and processes by creating workflows that require approvals.