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Microsoft Teams

Welcome to 'project-management-meets-social!' Teams is deeply integrated with Microsoft 365 tools, and allows you to chat, meet, call, and collaborate online with coworkers or classmates in a single, shared workspace - on your desktop or mobile app. You can layer on and customize your Teams experience by adding tabs including Planner to organize and assign team tasks with drag-and-drop ease, upload documents from OneDrive, link to a shared document library, create Wikis, and more!

Features

  • Collaborate
    Access, share, and edit Word docs, PowerPoint, and Excel files stored in OneDrive in real-time.
  • Meet
    Host audio, video, and web conferences with groups from 2–250, inside your organization. Quickly shift from group chat to video conference with the touch of a button.
  • Chat
    Secure group chat or one-on-one messaging with the ability to send gifs, stickers, and emojis.
  • Call
    Built-in calling functionality to make and receive calls from your contacts list.

When should I use Teams?

  • Small project work
    While you can create teams of any size, it's ideally suited for managing small, informal projects and group communication.
  • Easy team management
    Quickly create, manage, assign, and administer your own groups.
  • Single-point access
    One location to document tasks and upload, share, and edit documents with your team.
  • Agile
    You want to work quickly, and communication is always happening.