This session gives a good well rounded overview of how to communicate privately or in a Team Channel via chat messages, channel posts, announcements in Microsoft Teams.

This session is part of the Microsoft Teams 100 series, which includes a comprehensive 1-day Microsoft Teams – 100: Essentials training session and multiple 2-hour feature-specific sessions to accommodate specific needs and time constraints. For a thorough Teams understanding, consider combining this session with other 2-hour sessions in the series or opting for the Microsoft Teams – 100: Essentials training, complemented by any 2-hour session for more in-depth knowledge on specific topics as required.

Prerequisite

Attendees must already be familiar with working in Microsoft Windows or macOS. 

We recommend that attendees should also have attended or viewed either our Microsoft Teams - 100: Essentials or Microsoft Teams - 101: Fundamentals sessions to get the most out of this sessions.

Experience with other Microsoft Office application like Word, Excel or PowerPoint is also an advantage. 

For our Live Online sessions, attendees must be able to join the session via the video conferencing solution being used for the sessions.  We prefer Microsoft Teams, but discuss with us if you have a preferred solution instead.

Topics

Recommended Duration: Approx. 2.5 Hours

• When to communicate privately or in a Team
• Send messages and start conversations
• The Number One mistake when communicating in Team Channels and how to avoid it
• Reply to messages and conversations
• Send important or urgent messages and conversations 
• Format messages and conversations 
• Send announcements 
• Send conversations or announcements to multiple Teams and Channels at once
• React to messages and conversations
• Edit messages and conversations
• Delete messages and conversations
• Save messages and conversations
• View Saved messages and conversations
• Un-save messages and conversations
• Find messages and conversations
• Get and send links to conversations