SMUS Microsoft Teams - Initial Setup
Follow these steps to create your own Microsoft Teams site and populate it with people, channels, and content.
Log in
Open the website https://teams.microsoft.com and enter your email address | |
Once redirected to the SMUS login page, enter your password and log in |
Create Team
A Microsoft Team is a collaborative group. You can use a team as a departmental group, or any other collection of people working on a common task.
Create Channels
Inside each Microsoft Team, you can create channels that divide the team up into tasks. For example, you might create a channel to work on one specific project, or for a series of related projects.
Create Tabs
Each channel can have multiple tabs of information available. A tab can contain a word document, an easily editable wiki, a project planner, a website, or some documents. We've found the most useful tabs to be wiki and planner.
Wiki
Use a wiki tab to keep track of meeting minutes, or other text information that is easily separated into sections that needs to be edited by multiple people.
In your channel, click the "+" sign along the top list of options (Conversation, Files, + in this example), then choose Wiki | |
Enter the name of the wiki tab, then click Save |
Planner
Use a planner tab to keep track of a todo list. You can keep multiple buckets of tasks, with deadlines, assignees, and subtask lists for each task.
In your channel, click the "+" sign along the top list of options (Conversation, Files, + in this example), then choose Planner | |
Enter the name of the planner tab, then click Save |
Delete Tabs
If you no longer need a tab, or accidentally create one that doesn't need to be there, you can delete it.
Click the down arrow next to the tab to be deleted, then click Remove |