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Microsoft Office Support: Teams Tutorials

Microsoft Office Support: Teams Tutorials

Microsoft Teams is the software Canisius University uses for Online Meetings.  If needed, Microsoft Teams can be downloaded here to install on a computer, if it is not already installed.

Note that some features listed below are only available while using the Desktop version of Microsoft Teams. The download for the Desktop version of Teams is available above.

Table of Contents

Teams Quick Start

Teams for Meetings

General

Teams for Video Meetings/Conferencing

Getting Started

For Additional tutorials concerning Teams for Video Meetings/Conferencing, see the https://canisius.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AYCDZ for more details.

Calendars and Appointments in Teams

Creating Shared Spaces in Teams

Getting Started

  • Create a Chat

    • Create a group Chat (similar to texting) for you and others. You can also share documents, though they are automatically set to “Anyone with the link can view”, so make sure that these documents do not contain any private/privileged information.

Teams for Departments/Classes

  • Create a Team in Teams

    • With a Team, you can communicate with and share documents securely (vs. a Chat, which only allows for publicly sharing documents) with people added to the Team. Creating a Team also creates a SharePoint Site (similar to a Shared Google Drive/Google Sites combination, see SharePoint on the previous page for more information) for that Team, which anyone added to the Team can access.

  • Create a Class in Teams

    • Additional Class Tutorials

    • Similar to a Team, but with additional tools geared towards professional development and training. Additionally, those added as Students cannot simply leave the Class- the owner of the Class must manually remove them.

Additional tutorials for creating and managing shared Teams can be found on https://canisius.atlassian.net/wiki/x/BIB1Z.

Teams for Video Calls

A general overview of Teams for Video Calls is available here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/video-calling (note: this is mostly an ad-page for Teams, but at the bottom is an brief FAQ). Additionally, note that some features may be restricted (including using the dial pad in the Teams Call app to call specific numbers/people outside of the Canisius University Organization).

Teams for Office Hours

Microsoft Teams can be used for Office Hours. We have three options available to us:

  1. Set up a recurring Teams Meeting

  2. Set up a Microsoft Teams Team

  3. Set up Microsoft Bookings

For more details on how to do the above, see https://canisius.atlassian.net/wiki/x/LwDUM

Troubleshooting Microsoft Teams

Additional Topics and Support

  • https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/limits-specifications-teams

    • The above links to technical specifications for various Teams functions (i.e., maximum size of a Chat message, how long a deleted channel will be kept before being permanently deleted, etc.)

    • Important:

      • Scheduled Meeting Links will expire 60 days after the specified time.

      • Recordings of Video Conferences (meeting, webinar, town hall) are limited to 4 hours or 1.5GB. If the meeting is still going after the limit is reached, the recording will automatically stop and a new recording will automatically be started.

      • The maximum duration of a Video Conference is 30 hours.

      • Links for recurring meetings with no end date will expire 1 year after the meeting was last accessed. Similarly, links for recurring meetings with an end date will expire 60 days after the end date.

Privacy

Additional topics and tutorials can be found on Microsoft’s Teams support page and Microsoft Teams Video Training page.

Student Microsoft Teams Tutorials

Microsoft Teams Tutorials geared towards students are available here:

https://canisius.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/hd/pages/818905124

Additional Tutorials on the Wiki

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