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Teams is a core Microsoft application. It is a collaboration platform that facilitates communication, teamwork, and project management within classes, groups, and organizations. Key features include chatting, video and audio conferencing, channels and teams, file sharing, collaboration with colleagues, task management, meeting scheduling, security, and compliance. Teams is used in public and private industries making the familiarity of it essential to graduating students. Users can chat with individuals or groups outside of a team as well as have conversations in channels within a team. Teams can be set up for departments, commissions, classes, cohorts of students, or any combination of university and non-university members. Channels in Teams can be added to cover group projects, cohorts, study groups, private discussions within a larger team, and more.
A typical Team comes prepopulated with a single channel: General. Channels start with a few standard tabs:
- Posts: Text-based conversation can be sent within Channels and will show up under the Posts tab for each Channel.
- Files: Uploaded files are associated with each Channel and will show up under the Files tab. In a Team that was created using a Microsoft 365 group, these uploaded files will also be available in OneDrive in the Microsoft 365 group with a folder of the same name.
- Staff Notebook: Notebooks can be used and set up using OneNote, a digital notetaking app for all members of the Team to use and collaborate.
Teams has the following limitations on the number of people who can participate:
- Private Chat: 100 people
- Meeting: 250 people
Note for privacy: There is no way to suppress your personal information from other team members within a Team. Participants will see your email address and phone number if that information is viewable within the University of Tennessee online directory.
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