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.

Click into the Teams sidebar option, then click Add Team at the bottom
Under Create a team, click the Create team button
Enter a team name and description, then choose Private or Public privacy (private is most suitable for departmental file shares)
Type a person's name into the members box, then select their name once the search completes
Continue typing names and clicking their name once the search finishes
Once you have found the people to add to your team, click the Add button

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.

In your list of teams, click the "..." and choose "Add channel"
Enter the channel name and a description, then click the Add button
The channel will now appear as a suboption under your Microsoft Team

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