Overview

This course is designed to introduce participants to Microsoft Teams and OneDrive, two powerful tools for collaboration and productivity. You will learn how to use these tools to enhance communication, share files, and collaborate effectively with your team..This course is designed to enhance your proficiency in Microsoft Teams, focusing on advanced collaboration, communication, and productivity features. You will learn to leverage Teams and OneDrive to streamline your workflow and collaborate effectively with others.

Why Should an Individual Attend?

• Improve Collaboration: Learn how to use Teams to collaborate effectively with your team, regardless of location.
• Enhance Productivity: Discover time-saving features and tools to optimise your workflow.
• Secure Your Data: Learn how to securely store and share files using OneDrive.
• Stay Organised: Organise your files and documents efficiently with OneDrive
• Master Advanced Features: Explore powerful features like channels, meetings, and files.
• Strengthen Your Digital Skills: Develop essential skills for the modern workplace. 

Outcomes

At the end of this course, the delegate should be able to :

• Effectively Use Teams Channels: Create and manage channels, organise conversations, and use threaded replies.
• Host and Manage Meetings: Schedule, host, and record meetings, and use features like live captions and background blur.
• Collaborate with Teams: Share files, co-author documents, and use whiteboards.
• Leverage OneDrive: Store, share, and sync files efficiently.
• Utilise Advanced Search and Discovery Tools: Find information quickly and easily.
• Customise Your Teams Experience: Personalise your Teams experience to suit your preferences.
• Secure Your Workspace: Implement security measures to protect sensitive information. 

Program Outline

Microsoft Teams explained

• Best practices of using Teams
• Accessing Teams web, desktop, or mobile

Navigate the interface

• Navigation bar
• Adjusting the navigation pane by showing or hiding teams and channels
• Pin important channels for quick access

Create and manage your teams

• Create a team
• Managing team membership and settings
• Managing channels

Manage collaborative conversations with the entire team

• Different options to communicate with members
• Ways to react to, edit, or delete messages
• Use mentions in conversations to grab someones attention

Work with documents in Teams

• Upload an existing document
• Create a new document
• Live co-author a document in Teams, online, or in the desktop
• Share a file with someone not on the team
• Customise your team environment
• Make an important document a tab
• Work with the Notes tab

Manage meetings in Teams

• Schedule a meeting in Teams
• Work with meeting controls
• Schedule a meeting using Outlook

Communicate outside of your team

• One on one private conversations
• Share a document with the participants
• Add someone to the conversation
• Escalate the conversation to an audio call

Other key features in Teams

• Understand your activity feed
• Use search in Teams
• Keyboard shortcuts

Work with OneDrive for Business 

• Store personal documents with access anytime, anywhere, any device
• See documents shared with you
• Recover deleted documents
• See your Team documents
• Upload an existing document
• Create a new document
• Live co-author a document online, or in the desktop
• Review documents you have shared
• Stop sharing your documents
• Changing permissions
• Share a file with colleagues 

Who Should Attend?

• Engineers
• Technicians
• Technologist
• Project / Construction Managers
• Contractors / Subcontractors
• Others in the Built Environment
• Executives / Senior Management
• Middle Management
• Administrators / Support Staff
• Others: Team Leaders – Individuals who lead teams and need to foster collaboration.