Microsoft Teams is a communication software with collaboration feature that is provided along with Office 365.
Using your Office 365 account, you will be able to join teams created by your lecturer along with your classmates. You can use it to create a group for assignment so you can work together or chat with a lecturer without sending an email.
Joining a Team
To join a team in Microsoft Teams, you need an invitation link or team code, which is 7 characters long.
Click on the invitation link in a browser, and you will be redirected to Microsoft Teams client and you will join the Team automatically.
Alternatively, your lecturer might show you the team code.
Open your Microsoft Teams client, click on Join or create a team at the bottom left and enter the 7 characters code. Click Join team.
Navigating around Team
Once you are in a team, you will see it in the Teams sidebar. Each Team will at least has a General channel, and administrator of the team can choose to add more channels for separating type of conversations.
Each channel has some tabs beside the channel name. By default there are Posts and Files tab. Your lecturer might create more of them to include other contents such as class materials or assignment files.
You can right click or click on More icon next to the team to show additional options, such as manage team or get link to team if you want to invite your classmate who haven’t joined the team. Manage team allows you to see more information about the team, such as members in team.
Chat with someone
Click on the Chat icon on the sidebar. You will see list of people you recently chatted with.
If you can’t see anyone, you need to search for him. Type the person’s name in the Search box and click on the person you would like to chat with.
Once you clicked on the person, you can start chatting with them.
Many instant messaging features are available, such as ability to attach photos and files, send stickers, schedule an event and start a video call (meeting).
Like a team, chat also has its own tabs, such as Files tab where you can see all files that both of you uploaded to the conversation.
