Mastering MS Teams: Navigating Tabs and Features

Mastering MS Teams: Navigating Tabs and Features

Learning Objective

At the end of the lesson, you will be able to navigate and utilize the tabs and features in MS Teams effectively.

What do you already know about using MS Teams?

Introduction to MS Teams

MS Teams is a powerful communication and collaboration platform by Microsoft, offering various tabs and features for seamless teamwork.

Navigating Tabs

Tabs in MS Teams allow you to access different functionalities such as Chat, Teams, Calendar, Calls, and more.

Using Chat Feature

The Chat feature in MS Teams enables real-time messaging and file sharing with individuals or groups within your team.

Exploring Teams

Teams serve as a hub for collaboration, allowing members to organize conversations, files, and tools in one place.

Utilizing Calendar

The Calendar tab helps you schedule and manage meetings, appointments, and events within your team.

Engaging in Calls

The Calls feature enables audio and video calls, as well as screen sharing, for seamless virtual meetings and discussions.

Customizing and Exploring Additional Features

MS Teams offers additional features such as Files, Apps, and more, allowing customization and integration of various tools.

Recap and Practice

Review the key tabs and features in MS Teams, and practice navigating through them to reinforce learning.

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.