Use this presentation to get started with Microsoft Teams OR to advance your knowledge and usage of Microsoft Teams at CW.

Topics in this presentation include:

  • Teams and Calendar integration
  • Chat (instant messaging) - adding participants, naming your chats, formatting text within the chat, popping out chats to a new window, calling from a chat window
  • Meetings - creating from Outlook, Teams, Meet Now; adjust meeting options to control presenters and the lobby options, Record, Raise/Lower hands, Change Background, Sharing screen or documents
  • Calling
  • Collaboration - Teams, Channels, files and file organization (work on files with channel members at the same time), channel notifications, emails to a channel, 

MS Teams Info and Tips.pptx


Topics in this additional presentation include:

  • Together Mode - what is it and how to use it in Meetings
  • Bookmarking (saving) and retrieving important chats
  • Showing Teams in List View instead of Grid View
  • Pinning Channels and Chats regularly used (so they are at the top of your lists)


For more information, or small/targeted training videos from Microsoft that are feature-specific, see:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/microsoft-teams-video-training-4f108e54-240b-4351-8084-b1089f0d21d7?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us