Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is our the hub for team collaboration in Microsoft 365. It integrates the people, content, and tools your team needs to be more engaged and effective.It allows you to create and share content, as well as collaborate with colleagues or fellow students. It is the official communication and collaboration tool at AUP. This application can help you manage your classes online, organize and participate in online meetings, chat and share your screen with your audience.

Information

Features for everyone at AUP

Chat – Have private one-on-one or group conversations via text, audio, or video.
Meetings – Schedule and invite AUP and non-AUP participants to audio/video conference-based meetings. Teams meeting invitations synchronize automatically with Outlook calendar.
Activity Feed – View recent activities in Teams and search for specific conversations, files, people, and more.

Channels – Focus your Team's discussions by creating topic- or project-specific channels to hold conversations, have meetings, and collaborate on files.
Files – View, edit and collaborate on OneDrive files inside of Teams.
Tabs – Add content or features to a chat or channel. Tabs can include websites, Office 365 applications, and select non-Microsoft content.

Planner tab – Organize shared lists of tasks and collaborate on them with your Team.

Add an App to Teams – Add a bot, tab, connector, or messaging extension to Teams. To do so:

> Click Apps in the bottom-left corner of Teams.

> From there, you can browse available apps or search for a specific one.

Especially: Try the Who app, you will love it. The Who app is linked to AUP directory, which allows you to search for people in AUP by name or by topic.

Faculty: Use Teams Classes to collaborate with your students

Teams includes additional features to interact with your students:

Quick Start Guide with Teams for Education (PDF)

Assignments – Distribute and assess tests, homework and quizzes.

> Please note: at the moment, this feature is very lightweight. That's why we recommend using Blackboard Learn for assignments.

Class Notebook – Share class information and resources. If students post work in the class notebook, it will only be visible to themselves and their professors.