Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a workspace for real-time collaboration and communication, meetings, file and app sharing, and even the occasional emoji! All in one secure place accessible to everyone you choose to collaborate with. Connect with anyone on campus - all Genesee users are licensed for Teams, making it easier to add people to a team or search, call, and chat. 

Installing the Teams Application 

The app may already be on your computer; if it is not, you can install Teams by launching Software Center on your Windows Computer.  I If you open a Teams meeting via a web browser, you will enter the meeting as a Guest.  

Creating a Team for your Department 

All Genesee faculty, staff, and students can create a new team for your department or group. Here are some suggestions as you create your team: 

• Review this Microsoft document for how to create a team from scratch. Note that all Genesee teams have the word "Team" added to team names. 
• If your group is private, invite people to your team. You can also invite non-Genesee email addresses (they will get an email invitation). If you anticipate a large membership, you can share a join code via email to encourage people to join your team. 
• Identify additional owners of the team to share administrative duties. Owners will also receive notices about the team, such as expiration and deletion warnings should the team become inactive. 
• Create some channels. We recommend starting with a few, such as General, Water-Cooler, Functional Groups, project teams. 
• Set up your notifications. Microsoft has a good guide on all the notifications settings. It's also a good idea to talk with your team about what the expectations are around teams' notifications. 

Make a Chat with me or Call me link for teams 

If you want to make it easy for people to chat with you, start a video call with you, you can share with them a link that allows them to chat or call you in teams.  

Simply replace the username of this url with your username and you can share it https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=username@genesee.edu  

You also can make a call me link by changing chat to call and updating the username https://teams.microsoft.com/l/call/0/0?users=username@genesee.edu  

Teams Basics 

• Microsoft has a wealth of information about Microsoft Teams on their website. 
• Microsoft Teams Training 
• How to use the Microsoft Teams app on Mobile Devices (video) 
• Microsoft Teams Essential Training - LinkedIn Learning 
• Microsoft Teams and Classes in Canvas 

Chat & Calls 

• Start chats and calls 
• Manage call settings (including microphone and camera troubleshooting) 
• Share your screen in a chat or call 
• Contact groups in Chat 
• 6 things to know about chat in Teams 
• Update your status message 

Meetings & Organization 

• Join a Teams meeting 
• Meeting and Calls help center 
• Record a meeting in Teams 
• Use Planner in Microsoft Teams 
• Using Planner to stay organized 
• Organize individual and assigned tasks with the Teams Tasks app 
• Produce live events to large online audience 

Teams & Channels 

• Organizing teams and channels 
• Teams and channels overview 
• Favorite and follow channels 
• Work in channels 
• Private Channels in Microsoft Teams 
• Video: Filter activity feed 
• Video: Manage notification settings