OVERVIEW
Target audience: Students, faculty, and staff
Microsoft Teams is an Office 365 offering that allows groups to collaborate and interact through video and audio conferencing, persistent chat, and file sharing. See the service description Microsoft Teams for details.
For a quick overview of Microsoft Teams, please visit our Microsoft Teams How-To website.
This article contains links to documentation and videos about Microsoft Teams, organized by topic.
In this article:
What is Microsoft Teams?
Getting started with Teams
Creating teams
Best practices
Topics in Teams:
Navigation
Team membership
- Managing membership and permissions in Teams
- Creating a code to allow members to join your team
- Joining a team using a code
Notifications
Meetings
- Meetings and calls
- Video Series: Join and manage meetings in MS Teams
- Video: How to schedule a meeting with MS Teams
- Video: Show your screen during a Teams meeting
- Video: Join an MS Teams meeting on your mobile device
- Sharing system audio in an MS Teams meeting
- Blurring your background in an MS Teams meeting
- Recording a meeting in Teams
- Managing MS Teams meeting recordings
- Attendance report from a Teams meeting
- Sharing PowerPoint slides in a Teams meeting
- Engaging your audience with presenter modes
- How to Enable Q & A in Teams Meetings via Meeting Options
- How to Use Whiteboard in a Teams meeting
- How to Add co-organizers to a meeting in Teams
To add co-organizers to a meeting, make sure the people you want to add are already required attendees, then follow the steps below:
- Select your meeting and then choose Edit.
- Select More options > Meeting options.
- On the meeting options page, next to Choose co-organizers, select the down arrow and choose the name(s) of the additional co-organizer(s).
- Select Save at the bottom of your screen.
- How to Translate a message in Teams
Desktop
If you receive a message in another language on your desktop PC, select More options More options button > Translate at the top of the message. This will show the message's translation into the language you've set for Teams.
Note: If you don't see the translate option in Teams, contact your IT admin to ensure it's turned on.
Mobile
If you receive a message in another language on your iOS or Android mobile device, press and hold the message and then tap Translate.
To return a translated message to the original language, press and hold the message and then tap See original (language).
Note: Chat and channel message translation in Teams for Apple iOS and Android OS mobile devices is now available with the latest release.
Breakout rooms
- Creating and managing breakout rooms during class meetings (for organizers)
- Creating and managing breakout rooms (for students and participants)
Channels
- Creating a standard or private channel in MS Teams
- Overview of MS Teams and channels in MS Teams
- How to work in channels in MS Teams
- Demystifying channels
- Video: Go-to guide for team owners on MS Teams
- Setting up and managing channel moderation in MS Teams
Posting messages in channels
- Video series: Work with posts and messages
- Using tags to reach a group of people all at once
- Video: Get attention with @ mentions in MS Teams
Chat
- Starting a chat in MS Teams
- Six things to know about chat in MS Teams
- Add or invite people outside your organization to a chat in MS Teams
Files in MS teams
- Video Series: Upload and share files.
- Video: Upload and share files with MS Teams
- Video: Find and filter your files
Archive or restore a team
Other Microsoft Teams features
- Video: Adding tabs and tools in MS Teams
- Video: Blur your background in an MS Teams meeting
- Using commands in MS Teams
- Using whiteboard in MS Teams meeting
- *About: Microsoft Teams Webinars (virtual/online)
- Meeting virtually at McGill - Choosing the right type of Teams meetings
- Accessibility in Microsoft 365