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Microsoft Teams is a platform that combines workplace chat, meetings, notes, and attachments. The service integrates with the company's Office 365 subscription office productivity suite, including Microsoft Office and Skype, and features extensions that can integrate with non-Microsoft products
INTRODUCTION
CREATED BY
Microsoft Teams was created, and is currently led, by Brian MacDonald, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft.
CREATED BY
FEATURES
1. Teams
2. Messaging
3. Calling
4. Meeting
5. Education
TEAMS
TEAMS
Teams allow communities, groups, or teams to join through a specific URL or invitation sent by a team administrator or owner. Teams for Education allows admins and teachers to set up specific teams for classes, professional learning communities (PLCs), staff members and everyone.
MESSAGING
MESSAGING
Within a team, members can set up channels. Channels are topics of conversation that allow team members to communicate without the use of email or group SMS (texting). Users can reply to posts with images, GIF's and custom made memes.
Direct messages allow users to send private messages to a specific user rather than a group of people.
Connectors are third party services that can submit information to the channel, some connectors include MailChimp, Facebook Pages, Twitter and Bing News.
CALLING
CALLING
1. Instant messaging
2. Voice over IP (VoIP)
3. Video conferencing inside the client software
Teams supports public switched telephone network (PSTN) conferencing allowing users to call phone numbers from the client.
MEETING
MEETING
Meetings can be scheduled or created ad-hoc and users visiting the channel will be able to see that a meeting is currently in progress. Teams also has a plugin for Microsoft Outlook to invite others into a Teams meeting.
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Microsoft Teams allows teachers to distribute, provide feedback, and grade student assignments turned-in via Teams using the Assignments tab, available to Office 365 for Education subscribers. Quizzes can also be assigned to students through an integration with Office Forms.
OUR CUSTOMERS
CLIENTS
As of November 2017, the following Microsoft Teams clients are available:
1. Windows and MacOS: Included with Office 365
2. iOS: Microsoft app in iTunes app store
3. Android: Microsoft app in Google Play
4. Windows 10 Mobile and Windows Phone 8.1
CONCLUSION
DATA
Microsoft Teams, a new chat-based workspace that makes collaboration easier within Office 365. It is a mature software you can use on day one, which isn't always the case with a first-generation product. It's well designed, comes with a lot of useful features and is free for organizations that have an enterprise Office 365 subscription.
It offers deep integration with Office and other Microsoft tools. It also announced that it is starting to integrate with third-party offerings such as SAP, Trello, Hipmunk, Growbot and ModuleQ.