Get to Know Microsoft Teams
If you choose to share and collaborate using Microsoft Teams, this module will get you started. Explore how to set up a Team, add members, upload files, and communicate. Then, learn how to customize your Team with Channels, Tabs, Connectors, and Bots.
Review Features of Microsoft Teams
Teams is a chat-based workspace for people to communicate, share, and collaborate on files together.
- What is Microsoft Teams? Links to an external site. (External resource)
- Features that are changing in new Microsoft Teams Links to an external site. (External resource)
Access and Download Microsoft Teams
You can choose to use Teams online via teams.microsoft.com Links to an external site. or download the Teams desktop app for PC or Mac. Please note that instant meetings/video conferencing (via Skype for Business) are only available in the Teams desktop app.
Accessibility Features and Keyboard Shortcuts
Explore accessibility support and keyboard shortcuts below. Please note that an online document or tool is accessible when it can be easily understood by everyone, regardless of what browser or adaptive equipment he or she is using.
- Screen Reader Support for Microsoft Teams Links to an external site. (External resource)
- Keyboard Shortcuts for Microsoft Teams Links to an external site. (External resource)
Register for Live Training
- Microsoft Teams: Getting Started with Online Collaboration Links to an external site. (Instructor-led Training)
- Microsoft Teams: Beyond the Basics Links to an external site. (Instructor-led Training)
Asynchronous Course
Learn how to create and organize a virtual collaboration space with Microsoft Teams in this asynchronous course designed in Articulate Rise. The course is intended to help you navigate through Teams at your own pace, on your own time.