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All about

Microsoft Teams
Essential question

1. What makes an effective online

communication platform?
Let’s Discuss

What are the main ways you

communicate and collaborate
with students and colleagues?
Microsoft Teams

Value:
• Facilitates collaboration and
communication between teachers and
students
• Allows personnel / educators to
collaborate, converse, and share with
each other
Part 2
Getting started with
Microsoft Teams
Getting started with Microsoft Teams
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Part 3

Explore Teams
What features do you notice in Teams?

Activity
Chat
Teams
Meetings
Files
Assignments
More
Ready for a challenge?

• Start a new chat

• Use the App Bar

• Figure out how to change

settings in Teams
Part 4
Create a Team
Create a team

Do now Challenge
• Create and name a team. • Add your avatar / profile pictures
Select Staff Members for your team
type. • @mention a specific person
in your team.
• When prompted, invite a few other
people sitting at your table. • Upload a file.

• Add two channels to the team. • Insert a picture.

Name the channels based on
how you might break up your • Add an app to the channel.
practice, such as by unit, classes,
or student groups.

• Post a comment in that team.

Plan ahead

Think about Share Explore

• What is one feature • Type up your • Read your colleagues'
of Teams that you response as a responses posted in the
think you could use comment in the Conversations tab.
in the next couple Conversations
of weeks? tab of the General • Reply to comments that
channel of the resonate with you.
• How might you use it Teams Practice
and who might you Space team that you
use it with? explored in earlier.
Review essential question

1. What makes an effective online

communication platform?
Appendix A: Requirements
What you need to get started
Software requirements:
• Computer: Windows 10;
Office 2013 or later;
.Net Framework 4.5.0 or later
• Mobile: iOS 10.0 or later;
Android 4.3 and later
Suggested classroom device access
Windows 10 computer with:
• Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz)
or faster
• RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit)
or 2 GB (64-bit)
• Free hard disk space: 16 GB
• Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9
graphics device with WDDM driver
Cross platform presence
Desktop Mobile Browsers

Windows 7+ iPad

Edge

Chrome

Firefox

OS X 10.10+ iPhone Android

Limits and specifications for Microsoft Teams

Teams and channels Maximum limit

Number of teams a user can create Subject to a 250 object limit¹
Number of members in a team 2,500
Number of members in an org-wide team 2,500
Number of teams a global admin can create 500,000
Number of teams an Office 365 tenant can have 500,000
Number of channels per team 200
Limits and specifications for Microsoft Teams

Meetings and calls

Number of people in a meeting 250
Number of people in a private chat 20

Storage
1 TB per organization plus 10 GB per license
Storage
purchased
Storage for Teams Files Up to 25TB per site collection or group
File upload limit 15GB

Messaging
Message size limit 25 KB
File attachments limit 20
Inline images limit 50
Reminders

Reminders and Next Steps: Claim your Certificates at

Microsoft Educator Community
• Practice and Share
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please contact me at:
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Additional Training for
Microsoft Teams