Teams is designed to be utilized all users in our organization. Teams is a communication tool, keeping groups and individuals connected no matter their physical space (home, office, on-site).
The primary features include:
- 1:1 or Small Group chats
- Files sharing and meetings
- Collaborative Document Editing
- Work together with your team authoring Office documents like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Task Management
- Create tasks → Assign them → Keep track with calendars, charts, and other metrics
- Project Management
- Focus on one larger task to accomplish as a team
- Document libraries to manage all the required materials
- Conversational chat for a focused experience
- Meetings
- Team meetings of up to 300 people
- Live meetings (webinar style) up to 10k people
- Video, audio, screen sharing (with desktop control options) and more
- Background effects and other visual cue’s (raise hand, thumbs up, etc.)
** PLEASE NOTE: Teams is not accessible by people outside of the organization. You cannot have a chat, meeting, or share files with anyone not part of the University or Medical Center.
Learn More
There are many resources available for getting to know Microsoft Teams better. It is a continually evolving platform, changes and upgrades happen all the time. Keep up to date with the following resources:
- While using Teams, you can type “/help” along the very top of the window inside the search bar. This will load Teams’ own internal documentation and training videos.
- Visit the Tips & Tricks page for more in-depth guides created internally.
- Watch the University IT Staff Leadership Group present a Brown-Bag style overview on the basics of Microsoft Teams on Microsoft Stream à Brown Bag Session – Microsoft Teams Introduction and Basics.
- Find it on social media – Microsoft Teams on Twitter | Microsoft Teams on YouTube
- Get answers to Frequently Asked Questions.