Microsoft Teams
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Welcome to New York Tech's Microsoft Teams!
Welcome to New York Tech's new era work environment! Streamline your workflow with the exciting and innovative Microsoft Teams. Now available to members of the New York Tech community: faculty and staff (available to students January 2024). It seamlessly integrates apps, chats and channels and video calls in seconds. You will be amazed at this high performance tool! See New York Tech's webpage
Microsoft Teams provides a collection of applications neatly housed π all in one place to simplify and quickly assist you when collaborating, communicating, sharing files and ideas with your colleagues. Best of all it is based in the cloud for anytime anywhere access. Start with watching our video on "How to Log in to Microsoft Teams" (β° 2:22). π
Students: β οΈ Don't forget to enroll in OKTA verify You will need to use Okta-Verify Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to log into your New York Tech accounts, including Teams!
β Teams Terminology π£
Teams: A communication platform offering various tools including chat, videoconferencing, file storage, application integration, group workspace collaboration, and sharing information.
Channel: A focused area that the Team owner creates for specialized projects, disciplines, topics, and/or subgroups of team members. Channels can be private or public and have many of the features of the general Team.
Post: Create an announcement/link/information to be sent to all members of the Team.
Apps: These are add-on applications that let you do more in Teams. New York Tech has added the following apps: MS Forms, Stream, Tasks by Planner, List, Sway, Bookings, One Note, PowerPoint, Excel, and PDF.
β Where Do I Find It? π€
Look π for the Microsoft Teams purple icon (image right βͺ)
- If you are on campus: Teams will be pushed to all Desktops.
- For your New York Tech laptop: Please bring your device to campus to have the software and security updates installed:
- Long Island: Harry Schure Hall, 2nd floor lab
- New York City: 1855 Broadway, room 703
- For Personal-Owned Laptops: download the software
- For Mobile Devices: App is available from Apple or Google Play store.
β Video Calls are at your Fingertips πΉ
π Important: ALL Participants Will See Chats in a Microsoft Teams Video Call!
Please review ATS's important infographic on Key Differences Between Zoom and Teams.
β οΈ Private chats/conversations to individuals during a meeting are not possible! π₯ + π₯ = π¬
β Learn More At Your Convenience
Streamline and amplify your overall productivity and collaboration with Microsoft Teams!
To help you become an expert, ATS has conveniently created a self-paced training course in Canvas, where you can explore tutorials and even collect your ATS Teams Training Completion badges! Enroll by simply clicking on this link βͺ https://nyit.instructure.com/enroll/DPG9HR (share it with your colleagues too!) or sign-up for one of ATS' live byte-sized training sessions (20 minutes training, 10 minutes Q&A). Learn the tips and lets us help you become a savvy Microsoft Team player.π Resources
LinkedIn Learning (sign-up! It's FREE to the New York Tech Community (faculty, students and staff). Watch New York Tech's Collection of Microsoft Teams videos and more.... )
β Accessibility
Accessibility in Microsoft Teams
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