Mural for Brainstorming and Collaboration
1h 22mBeginner2025-05-09
Authors

Heather Severino
Globally recognized Trainer with over 23 years of experience
Course details
You collaborate with your colleagues and customers every day, and your conversations are ever evolving, as your projects are always in flux. Whether you’re using a whiteboard and a dry erase marker, or a shared document in a virtual meeting room, sometimes you want better, more integrated results out of your team’s collaborative experience. In this course, Microsoft Certified Trainer and instructor Heather Severino introduces you to Mural, the powerful collaboration tool.
Learn how to use Mural for user experience, general brainstorming, and collaboration with your UX and design thinking team. Explore how to build workspaces, rooms, and Mural canvases, setting up a collaborative space and inviting visitors to participate. Sync your space with Microsoft Teams, and learn how to collaborate with Mural AI. Follow Heather’s tips on facilitating Mural sessions in real time, and before long you’ll be getting creative with collaboration, too.
Learn how to use Mural for user experience, general brainstorming, and collaboration with your UX and design thinking team. Explore how to build workspaces, rooms, and Mural canvases, setting up a collaborative space and inviting visitors to participate. Sync your space with Microsoft Teams, and learn how to collaborate with Mural AI. Follow Heather’s tips on facilitating Mural sessions in real time, and before long you’ll be getting creative with collaboration, too.
Skills covered
MuralDesign ThinkingCreativityTeams and CollaborationUser ExperiencePersonaGraphic DesignProfessional DevelopmentLeadership and Management
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Collaborating in the Mural digital workspace
1. Getting Familiar with Mural
- 02 - Navigating the Mural dashboard
2. Organizing Murals in a Workspace
- 03 - Creating private and open rooms
- 04 - Managing room membership
- 05 - Creating a room mural from a template
- 06 - Customizing a mural's content
- 07 - Importing files and images to a mural
- 08 - Organizing murals in rooms and folders
3. Facilitating a Collaboration Session
- 09 - Inviting collaborators to a mural
- 10 - Preparing to facilitate a mural session
- 11 - Facilitating a mural session
- 12 - Participating in a mural session
- 13 - Exporting mural work
- 14 - Searching murals and rooms for content
- 15 - Archiving a mural
- 16 - Collaborating with the iOS Mural app
4. Collaborating in Microsoft Teams
- 17 - Adding the Mural app to Microsoft Teams
- 18 - Adding Mural to a team channel
- 19 - Adding a mural to a Microsoft Teams private chat
- 20 - Setting up a mural for a Microsoft Teams meeting
5. Publish Your Own Templates
- 21 - Publishing a customized template
6. Managing Account Settings and Notifications
- 22 - Updating profile settings
- 23 - Customizing email notifications
7. Collaborating with Mural AI
- 24 - Creating a custom content board with Mural AI
- 25 - Generating ideas with Mural AI
- 26 - Grouping and classifying sticky note content with Mural AI
Conclusion
- 27 - Collaborating more with Mural
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