Teams for learning and collaboration guide

• Channels in Teams provide students with a space to plan and co-ordinate group and project work.
• Students cannot create their own Teams, but can actively participate in Teams of which they are a member.
• Students can use chat, video and voice call functionality with other students. This means that they can quickly create study groups, collaboration groups and social groups.

Channels organise all the files, conversations, and apps for a topic in one place.

Every class Team comes with a General channel. This channel has three tabs:

• The Posts tab for all the messages in the channel.
• The Class Files tab to store all the files shared in this channel. Lecturers can add Read-only files to the Class Materials folder. Students can read these files, but only lecturers can edit.
• The Class Notebook tab. By default, Class Notebooks have three sections designed to facilitate different type of activities:
  • Collaboration Space: for collaborative work among multiple students.
  • Content Library: for dissemination of content by the lecturer to the students.
  • Student Notebooks: for individual work by the student.

• Students working in project or seminar channels can share and collaborate on files. Teams makes it easy to share files and work on them together. If working in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, members of the Team will be able to view, edit, and collaborate on them, right within Teams. Collaborating on files guidance
• Students can use @ mentions feature to get someone’s attention or to notify the entire channel about an update or to get advice on a question that they have.
• Microsoft Planner allows students to schedule and assign tasks to each other to help manage the progress of the project.
• Students working in project groups can schedule instant meetings to come together to discuss and collaborate on projects. If the channel is private, students will have access to the Meet option on the top of the channel to facilitate instant meetings.
• Students can create their own chat and collaboration groups by searching for and adding users to a video or text chat.

From the module Team your lecturer can communicate with you and other students by:

• Messaging all students in a Team and replying to conversations in a channel.
• Sending announcements.
• Starting a conversation with one or a group of students using Chat.