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Teams Overview

What Is Teams?

Microsoft Teams is a communication and collaboration platform that comes with Office 365. With Teams, you can:

  • Chat with people individually or in a group via text, video, or audio.

  • Conduct video conferences with up to 250 people at the same time.

  • Share your desktop, applications, or a whiteboard during meetings.

  • Automatically record and upload video, audio, and shared content from meetings to Microsoft Stream.

  • Share files, web page links, and other resources.

In Teams, when you want to have conversations and share files with others, you can create an online workspace called a Team for your group. Teams can be created for classes, offices, departments, or any other groups.

How Do I Access Teams?

Go to https://teams.microsoft.com/ and sign in with your MC email address and password.

You also can acess Teams from MyMC by clicking Office 365, clicking the app launcher icon in the upper-left corner of the page, and selecting Teams from the apps list.

Teams

To download the desktop or mobile Teams app, go to https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/download-app, click Download Teams, and follow the instructions.

What Are Teams and Channels?

In Teams, a Team is an online workspace where a group of people can communicate and collaborate.

All Teams have a conversation area and a shared files area. (Class Teams also have a OneNote Class Notebook, Assignments area for creating and distributing assignments to students, and a Grades area where feedback can be provided to students).

A channel is where conversations & files pertaining to a particular topic, chapter, department, event, etc. take place within a Team. (For example, a class Team might have a channel for each week of content or each chapter.)

Below is an example of a Team that has several different channels.

Channels

Teams can be private (meaning that only the members who have been added to it can access it) or public (meaning that anyone with a MC network acccount can join it).

Anyone with a MC network account can create a Team and add members to it. (For instructions, see Create a Team.)