Overview of Microsoft Teams is a practical, hands‑on course designed to help users communicate, collaborate, and meet more effectively using Microsoft Teams. Participants begin by learning what Teams is, how it compares to email and other communication tools, and how it supports modern teamwork through chat, meetings, and shared workspaces.
The course guides learners through navigating the Teams interface, including chat, calls, calendar, files, and settings. Participants practice using chat for one‑on‑one and group conversations, sending and managing messages, sharing files, reacting to and translating messages, and customizing notifications to reduce distractions while staying informed.
Learners also explore how to schedule and manage Teams meetings, including using the scheduling assistant, setting meeting options, adding co‑organizers, and working with agendas. Pre‑meeting collaboration tools such as chat, files, notes, and whiteboards are covered, along with in‑meeting features like layouts, backgrounds, breakout rooms, live transcription, and audio controls. Post‑meeting tasks—including accessing recordings, attendee reports, notes, and whiteboards—are also reviewed.
The course concludes with a focus on Microsoft Teams workspaces, including understanding the difference between teams, channels, and chats. Participants learn how to customize workspaces, manage members and permissions, organize conversations in channels, collaborate on files with version history and live co‑authoring, and structure content using channels, tabs, folders, and alerts. By the end of the session, users are equipped to use Microsoft Teams as a centralized hub for communication, collaboration, and teamwork.