Advanced Microsoft Teams
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Enhancing workflow productivity and collaboration
In this course, you’ll:
- Create and organize teams and chats
- Learn to navigate quickly with search, shortcuts, and filters
- Learn to collaborate efficiently and effectively on business documents
Collaboration is a key to success for any organization. One technology that has emerged in recent years to foster collaboration is Microsoft Teams. Although primarily known for its chat and video meeting functions, it is a tool with hidden depths and features that, when used effectively, can enhance workplace productivity.
Join expert Jeremy Nathan to learn how to use Teams’ most powerful features to collaborate synchronously and asynchronously with team members, work with a diverse range of applications in conjunction with Teams, and increase workplace productivity by eliminating inefficiencies. You’ll review the nuances of team formation, channels, communication, and retention and discover little-known features that can significantly improve your meetings. You’ll learn how to collaborate more effectively in business documents and other applications within Teams, including how to implement the Power Platform to analyze data faster through streamlined techniques, and how to use the admin center to track usage in Teams.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- Discover and use lesser-known features of Teams
- Understand and apply best practices for efficiently navigating the tool
- Facilitate collaboration in other apps
This live event is for you because...
- You’re a business professional or enterprise user who works within a team.
- You’re a team manager or organizer.
- You want to build your Microsoft 365 skills.
- You’d like to enhance your career in the Microsoft 365 environment.
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office or Microsoft 365
- A computer with the Microsoft Teams installed (using a Microsoft 365 login)
- A second monitor connected to your computer
Recommended follow-up:
- Read Microsoft Teams Administration Cookbook (book)
- Microsoft Power Platform (O’Reilly resources)
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Teams communication (60 minutes)
- Group discussion: Who has created meetings before?
- Presentation: Meetings tips and tricks; whiteboard, wiki, and OneNote; spotlighting attendees; content from camera; breakout rooms; meeting recap (live transcription, notes, and attendance); Microsoft Stream recordings
- Hands-on exercises: Explore meeting options, Q&A, polls, and PowerPoint Live
- Q&A
- Break
Teams setup (65 minutes)
- Group discussion: Is the pace just right, too slow, or too fast?
- Presentation: Keyboard shortcuts; detailed search and filters; pinning channels and chats; sending Teams invites; joining teams; creating private teams
- Hands-on exercises: Add Outlook Calendar; email inside Teams; create a private channel; email an entire channel; explore Teams for project management; organize tasks with Planner
- Q&A
- Break
Teams integration (55 minutes)
- Presentation: Team and channel analytics; using cloud storage in Teams; Power Platform (Power BI, Power Apps and Power Automate); Dataverse for Teams; Microsoft Lists; integrating third-party apps; retention policies; admin settings, analytics, and usage reports
- Hands-on exercises: Make a file and collaborate with your team; work with SharePoint and OneDrive; access files shared in chats
- Q&A
Your Instructor
Jeremy Nathan
Jeremy Nathan is a certified Microsoft data analyst and trainer based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He provides on-site and online instruction on Microsoft technology and data science ranging from basic Microsoft Office skills to advanced data analysis and visualization. Jeremy is also the owner of JN Training, a company that teaches a range of computer skills to clients in various industries including manufacturing, retail, and hospitality.