Microsoft Teams is an online workspace. It serves as the “digital hub“ of Office 365, bringing together chats, online meetings, content, and apps in one place. Teachers can create collaborative classrooms in Teams, and all users can create professional learning communities and communicate with each other.
- Teams as platforms for teamwork – also in group work between students
- Basics of using Teams
- Take a look at Microsoft’s own guidelines for implementing Teams
Teams as platforms for teamwork
In addition to instant messaging capabilities, Teams has teams for teamwork. Teams can be public and open to everyone, or they can be meant for certain people and hidden from others. You can be an owner or a team member who manages a team – both students and staff can create teams.
There can be many teams, one for different purposes. It is also possible to divide the topic into smaller entities within the team, i.e. the team owner can create their own channels for different topics within the team. The channels can be available to all team members or only to a limited number of people. Each channel has its own discussion area and file storage area. Office documents in a team are automatically shared by all team members (or members of a restricted channel) and can be edited at the same time.
The file manager view is similar to OneDrive’s file manager and it works in much the same way. In practice, the files are located in a document library created for the team, which is in SharePoint. If you know how to use OneDrive, it’s very useful from the point of view of file management for teams: There are some differences, but in general, the functions are the same.
If you record an online meeting created within the team, the recording will be saved directly to the team and will remain there for later viewing.
Staff member: Review what data can be stored in the cloud and how it can be shared: See the instructions for processing Oamk‘s datasets prepared by the Data Protection Officer.
Note! ICT Services does not take backups of files stored in the Microsoft 365 service. The amount of data to be backed up would simply be too large. Make your own backups of your important files in case you manage to destroy files in OneDrive/Teams/Sharepoint yourself or if they are encrypted by ransomware.
Basics of using Teams
Microsoft video learning (link to Microsoft page)
Microsoft user enablement flipbook