Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is MGA’s primary communication and collaboration tool. Teams is a chat-based workspace in Office 365 that makes it easy to chat, host meetings, share files, collaborate on documents, make phone calls (faculty and staff), and get work done with teams across the organization.
How to get started with Microsoft Teams?
- Download Teams for your desktop, Android, or IOS device
- Sign in using your MGA email credentials
- Join a Team
- Teams are created by Office 365 administrators. Have your department chair or Student Affairs Office (student organizations) contact to create a team.
- Teams can be created for Schools, Departments, Committees, projects, events, or official student organizations.
- You can request as many teams as needed
- Add members and create channels
- Start a conversation within your team.
- Share documents
- Schedule a meeting with voice, video, and screen sharing.
- Start chatting with anyone in MGA
- Use the search bar to begin collaborating across the entire organization
Download the FULL MGA Teams Handbook
Links
MGA Teams Handbook
Interactive Teams Demo
Teams Quickstart Guide
Addition Teams Training Videos
Microsoft Training Resources
![People using teams](images/teams/teams3.jpg)
Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with Teams using the guides above. As always, if you run into any difficulty, contact IT Services at help.mga.edu