Microsoft Teams: Organizing Your Personal Life
1h 31mIntermediate2021-03-11
Authors

Heather Severino
Globally recognized Trainer with over 23 years of experience
Course details
With its consumer version of Microsoft Teams, Microsoft offers a way to get organized at home. Instructor Heather Severino walks you through how you can use the features and tools in Teams. Heather is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Office Apps and Services. In this course, learn how to invite friends and family to Microsoft Teams, start and manage chats and group chats, and use Activity and Search to stay up to date with communications. Find out how to invite people to an online meeting, how to join someone else’s meeting, and how you can access and share files with OneDrive. Explore how Tasks can help you keep track of personal and shared items on your to-do lists. Observe how to start and answer audio and video calls, as well as how to capture and share photos. In conclusion, discover how to update app settings, reorder tabs in the app, and find the help and resources you need.
Skills covered
Microsoft TeamsMessagingOffice 365Microsoft 365Business Software and ToolsMicrosoftOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Get your home life organized with Teams
1. Get the Microsoft Teams App
- 02 - Download and sign into the app
2. Invite People to Microsoft Teams
- 03 - Invite friends and family to Microsoft Teams
- 04 - Sync your device contacts
3. Keep in Touch with Chat Messages
- 05 - Start a chat
- 06 - Create a group chat
- 07 - Manage chats
4. Stay Up to Date with Activity and Search
- 08 - Catch up on conversations you have missed
- 09 - Finding people, messages, and files
5. Schedule Events and Host Meetings
- 10 - Invite friends and family to an online meeting
- 11 - Participate in an online meeting
- 12 - Schedule an event in a group calendar
6. Work with OneDrive Files
- 13 - Access your OneDrive files
- 14 - Share your OneDrive files
7. Manage To-Do Items with Tasks
- 15 - Create a personal task list
- 16 - Create a shared task list
8. Join Audio and Video Calls
- 17 - Start a call
- 18 - Answer an incoming call
9. Access the Safe
- 19 - Set up your safe
- 20 - Add items to your safe
10. Capture and Share Photos
- 21 - Take a photo, choose an image mode, and share it with others
11. Settings and Resources
- 22 - Update the app settings
- 23 - Reorder the app tabs
- 24 - Getting help and resources
Conclusion
- 25 - Communicating more with Microsoft Teams
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