Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a digital hub that brings conversations, content, and apps together in one place, so your team has easy access to all the tools they need to work effectively. Share files, edit documents, take notes, schedule meetings, chat with the group all right in Teams.Â
Microsoft Teams provides the following features:
Chat and audio & video web conferencing with screen sharing: Enjoy public and private conversations with your Teams and colleagues. Includes popular social features, such as adding emojis and custom memes to your discussion.
1TB OneDrive file storage: Teams creates a SharePoint document library for each Channel in a Team to provide many options for working collaboratively. Beyond simply editing and sharing files, you can select a file and start a new Conversation about it which appears in your Team Channel Conversations tab so other members of your Team can view your comments and replies.Â
OneNote Notebook: Organize and take notes for and with your Team in one central location.
SharePoint Team Site: Create an internal website for your Team.Â
Microsoft Planner Plans: Organize and manage projects within your Team.
Highly Customizable: Every Team is unique with differing workflow methods and requirements. Microsoft Teams allows you to tailor your Team and Channels to meet each group's needs. Enable modules to provide updates and notifications from third-party services like BitBucket, GitHub, and Twitter, among others. Make accessing other Office 365 services such as Forms, OneNote, and Planner, just a click of a tab away.
New Teams
If you are still using Classic Teams, you will see a banner encouraging you to switch to New Teams:Â
You are encouraged to use New Teams as soon as it is available to you. New Teams provides a faster, simpler, and more flexible experience.
To learn more about Microsoft Teams, including free on-demand training, visit Using Microsoft Teams.
WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH TEAMS?
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While Microsoft Teams does provide some learning management system (LMS) functionality, at this time, ITS does not recommend or support the use of Teams for Teaching & Learning purposes. Brightspace and Zoom Workplace are the University's supported online course-delivery platforms. |
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WHO CAN USE TEAMS?
All UAlbany Faculty, Staff, and students can use Microsoft Teams to chat/IM, make video or voice calls, manage Teams Meetings, and create/use Teams within the service. Â External users may be granted access to be on a Team.
HOW TO USE TEAMS
GET TEAMS APPS
The Microsoft Teams desktop client is automatically installed on desktops connected to the UAlbany network.
Install Microsoft Teams (Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS)
ACCESSIBILITY
Microsoft offers a unique set of accessibility features to efficiently navigate through Teams.
The desktop or mobile app version of Microsoft Teams is recommended over the web version. The web version may be difficult to navigate with a screen reader.Â
LIMITATIONS
NAMING OF TEAMS
Naming of Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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