🏫 Microsoft Teams Tutorial in 10 min

everyone kevin here today i want to show you how you can use microsoft teams in under 10 minutes what is microsoft teams well it has all of your chats meetings files all in one place and in a moment i'll show you exactly what all of that means if you want to jump around this video feel free to use the timestamps down below in the description now we only have 10 minutes so let's jump on the pc and let's get started to join this happy group of people and start using microsoft teams well first off your organization needs microsoft teams if your school or workplace does not yet have microsoft teams you can sign up for free however chances are you're just trying to get access to microsoft teams in which case you can simply click on sign in to make it even easier to sign in you could simply head to the website teams.microsoft.com and when you go there that'll bring you to the sign in page where you can sign in with your school or workplace account next you'll likely see a screen that prompts you to get the team's desktop app the team's desktop app is more feature-rich and it also has all of the latest and greatest functionality if you're going to be using teams a lot i recommend getting the app however you can also use the web app for the rest of this tutorial i'm going to be using the desktop app if you decide to use the web app you'll have most of the core functionality if you want to update to the desktop experience at any time over in the bottom left-hand corner there's a download desktop app icon you can simply click on that and then you can download the desktop app now that we have microsoft teams i want to take a moment to orient you to the experience over on the left hand side this is called the navigation bar and in a moment we're going to go through each one of these to see what they can do now this one here is called teams and the app itself is called teams so why don't we start with this one it's probably a pretty important one now you might be wondering what is a team well the simplest way to describe it is a team is simply a collection of people content and also tools and that'll be based on a project or group and in a moment we'll go through an example and see what that is but first off we need to add a new team to add a new team at the very bottom of this pane here you'll see an icon that says join or create a team let's click on that within join or create a team i could create my very own team or i can join an existing team in this example let's go ahead and create a new team next we can create a new team from scratch or from an existing team down below you'll see a whole bunch of templates that you can start a new team from and this will also help you better understand what a team is you can have a team to manage a project or maybe you want another team to onboard new employees for your organization to manage an upcoming event for this example we need to onboard some new employees to the kevin cookie company so i'm going to use this template to set up my new team by using a template it'll automatically create channels for you and in a moment we'll see what these different channels are it also adds some apps to this team all of this looks good so let's click on start on the next screen you could define whether it's a private or a public team as a private team only those people who you invite can participate in your team if you set it to public anyone in your organization is able to join now i'm all about transparency so let's go with public next i need to type in some details about my new team and a description all of that looks good so i'll click on create now that i've finished adding my team over on the left hand side i see my new team in this list if i click on the ellipsis i can add members to my team i can even get a link to the team that i can then share with others once the project's over and i no longer need the team i can even delete it within my new team i have a set of four different channels and what are channels well it allows you to organize by specific topics and projects so here with my new employee onboarding we have a channel where employees can come together and they can chat and i can keep that separate from my training channel where i'm going to upload all of our training materials so once again simply a way to organize content and conversations now that we know the basics of teams and channels why don't we jump into the employee chat channel to see if there are any conversations within the employee chat channel here at the very bottom i can kick off a new conversation but here i see that nest or one of our new employees already posted something and i can click on reply and this will create a threaded conversation let me go ahead and type in a response to nestor now that i've typed in my response if i really want to get nestor's attention or anyone else's attention i can type in the at symbol and then i can select a person so here if i type in at nestor he's going to get a notification that there is a chat message waiting for him along with at mentioning an individual i could also type in at and i can at mention the entire channel so here i could simply say employee chat and anyone who's part of this channel will get a notification here on nestor's screen we can see an icon indicating that there is a message for him and here we see this red at symbol indicating that he was at mentioned in the conversation so it's an easy way to get someone's attention as i'm having a conversation with nestor i can also format my text to make it stand out a little bit more here again i'll click on reply and there's the format text icon down here and you can use all of the different standard formatting tools i've now formatted some text and i want to make sure nester checks out our training document and i'm not just limited to typing in text here i can also drag and drop files over and then i can include a file as part of this conversation to access this file nester can click on it here within the conversation and he could also go up above and he could click on files where here too you can see all of the different files from across all of the different conversations within the files view you can also create a new document directly from here and you could also upload an existing document every single channel has its own files tab and it also has its own posts tab so once again using channels is simply a way to organize different conversations and files to stay on top of the teams and the channels that matter to you you can reorganize teams by simply dragging and dropping also if there's a team that no longer matters to you you can click on the ellipsis and you can hide it here i want to make sure i stay on top of the employee chat i can click on that channel click on the ellipsis and then i can pin it to the top so i have easy access back to that channel back over on the navigation bar on the left hand side the top icon is for activity this is where you get notifications about any recent activity from teams meetings files or apps here i see that nester at mentions me twice and i can follow up on that over here i can also filter all of my activity if i click on the ellipsis here i can filter down to specific types of activity over on the left hand side in the navigation bar the next icon is for chat and a chat is ideal for communicating and sharing in smaller groups up here on the top i can kick off a new conversation by clicking on this icon here i'll type in patty and then down below i could type in my message now that i've kicked off a chat with patty i can turn this into a video call i can also simply set it into a voice call and here i could share my screen i could add additional people to the conversation and here i could even pop out the chat so let's say i want to jump into a team and continue chatting i can do that here on the navigation bar the next icon is for calendar and here's where i can review my upcoming calendar all of this is synced with outlook if i want to schedule a new meeting up in the top right hand corner i can click on this icon that says new meeting within meeting details i can type in a subject for my meeting i could also include participants for my meeting type in a description it's pretty much the same flow as within microsoft outlook once i'm all done i can click on the send button this will automatically include a join link for microsoft teams so we can all meet virtually here now i see the new event on my calendar and when i click on it i can now join the meeting before joining the meeting i can configure my video and audio options here for example i am going to turn on my webcam hello i could also turn on different background filters for example i could blur my background or i could throw in a locker room here nothing like having a meeting from a locker room i could also go through and configure all of my audio settings and once i'm ready to join i can simply click on join now now that i'm in the meeting i have a few different options here across the top bar here i can see the participants to see everyone else who's already in the session i could also have a chat with all of the different participants i could raise my hand within the ellipsis one of the more interesting ones is i can kick off a recording of this meeting also over on the right hand side i can share content with all the participants i could share my whole desktop a specific window and i even get access to a whiteboard once i'm all done with my meeting i simply go up to this red button right here and i can click on leave back over on the left hand side back in the navigation pane there are two more different icons that we're going to look at the first one is calls and this is where you could call other people in your organization you'll see a history of all of your calls you could go through and look at your contacts and you could even listen to voicemail down underneath that there's also the files view here you can see all of your files within onedrive and you can see all of the files that you have access to within microsoft teams alright well if you learned how to use microsoft teams please give this video a thumbs up to see more videos like this in the future hit that subscribe button and also if you want to see me cover any other topics in the future leave a note down below alright well that's all i have for you today i hope you enjoyed and as always i hope to see you next time bye [Music] you

Channel: Kevin Stratvert

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Length: 9min 46sec (586 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 08 2021