In this chapter, you will learn a little more about the interface.

There are two video links at the bottom of the page for you to view.

In the last chapter we looked at how to log in and navigate the menu. Let's now look at a Team.

All staff have access to the Staff Team.

Clicking on the Staff Team box will take you into that Team.

Above is the Staff Team. On the left, are Channels. Each channel has its own name, members, chat and calendar. You can see here there is just one channel. General. Everyone who is in the Staff Team is a member of the General channel. On the right, is the Chat. Anyone can leave messages here and everyone in the channel can read or reply to them.

At the top:

Posts the chat page

Files any files uploaded to the Team. (Here is where you'll find PDFs with additional instructions for Teams)

Staff Notebook part of Microsoft OneNote. Allows staff to collaborate together in a notebook/scrapbook

Using Microsoft Teams the video (link below) to a Team training webinar.

Support (found in the 1 more menu in the above picture) displays this support site.

How to Join a Meeting

Any meetings scheduled that include everyone in a channel will appear in the chat.

So for a Full Staff Meeting, go into the Staff Team and make sure you're in the General channel.

On the right, in the chat (Posts tab), you'll find the meeting:

Anyone added to a meeting (either individually or as part of a group) will be sent an email. You can accept the meeting via your email.

Alternatively you can click onto the meeting via the Chat (above)

Here you can see the details of the meeting, who has said they will attend, the times, place etc.

To accept the meetings, click +Add to calendar. Not only will this now be accepted, letting others know you're attending, but will also add it to your Outlook calendar: (shown here in Teams, but it will show in Outlook too)

Joining the meeting is easy. It can be done by repeating the steps above, by clicking on the meeting in your calendar or by going to your calendar in Outlook. In all cases, just click the Join button: (in Outlook, if you click on the meeting in your calendar, there will be a join button there too).

Once you've clicked Join, you'll be taken to the lobby:

At this point, others cannot see you - so you've still got time to put on your finest "I'm really engaged and interested" face!

At the bottom of your video screen, you'll see four options: 

Video on/off    Background Settings.     Microphone on/off.    Custom Settings

Video and Microphone will switch on or ofd your camera and mic. You'll still be in the meeting but with these disabled others either cannot see or hear you. It's good etiquette to turn off the Microphone unless you're addressing the group, so other noises aren't picked up and transmitted. Likewise if you aren't paying full attention, (such as reading documents, sending chats) it would be a good idea to disable the cameras while you're doing it.

Background setting lets you choose to blur your background, or substitute it for somewhere else.

Custom Setup allows you to choose which camera or microphone you are going to use, if you have more than one on your device (eg you've bought and plugged in a microphone into your laptop and wish to select that one over the built-in one).

Click Join Now to join the meeting.