Top tips for using Microsoft Teams for project management and communicationPosted by adamsava on March 26th, 2021 One year into the pandemic, you’ve probably found yourself on at least one Microsoft Teams meeting.
Teams is the broad-use communication tool which has been used to unite remote teams. The free feature has a 100-participant capacity, meetings up to an hour long, screen sharing, and more. The paid versions—and there are several of them—can permit non-stop meetings and accommodate thousands of participants simultaneously.
Other features of Teams include:
Microsoft Teams has a low learning curve and most people find they are able to use it quickly. As a whole, the tool is easy to get up and running.
Chat is the key feature of Teams and is what gets the most use. Chat can be one-on-one, or chat rooms can easily be created by adding specific team members.
Chats appear on your chat pane as pinned—like bookmarked entries—or as recent files. Think of a chat as a channel. From it you can:
Teams also has a highly useful calendar which can integrate with Outlook, so meeting invitations accepted in email are blocked off immediately on your Teams calendar. From the calendar, it’s easy to click directly to join the meeting. The calendar can also be configured so it shows team member vacation or out of office requests.
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