OVERVIEW
Target Audience: Faculty and staff
Microsoft Teams is part of the Microsoft 365 offering. It allows a group of people to collaborate and interact through private and group chats, video and audio web conferencing, online team meetings, and file sharing. This webinar will provide you with a basic introduction to Microsoft Teams and present some best practices.
In this article:
Introduction to Microsoft Teams for faculty and staff (COL 101)
Prerequisites: none
Duration: 2 hours
Course format: Workshop
Course material: COL 101-MS Teams
Course content
You will learn how to use the following basic MS Teams features:
- use the Teams interface
- create an online MS Teams meeting using MS Teams or Outlook
- join an online MS Teams meeting and participate during the meeting
- turn video on/off
- mute/unmute yourself
- view/add/mute meeting participants
- manage meeting permissions
- download attendance list
- use the chat feature to share links and files
- share your screen and sound with others
- create virtual breakout rooms
- apply background effects
- turn on live captions and transcription
- record the meeting
- use PowerPoint Live
- use Presenter Modes
- set up your notifications
- reduce background noise
- create a team and channels to facilitate work on common projects or common interests
- best practices
- McGill cloud data directive
- additional support and resources
How to register
To view the schedule and register: Introduction to MS Teams Training Registration (COL 101)
NOTE:
If you cannot attend the workshop you are scheduled for, please use the cancel link in the confirmation email to free your spot for someone else.
