Create a Team in Teams

Create a team using Windows

Create a Channel

Customize and Manage a team

 

Create a team

In Teams, on the left side, click Teams. Click the down arrow beside the   and select New team.

Note: The appearance of the add team will be different based on the view that you have set in Team's Preferences.
 

Windows OS
select the down arrow
Select New Team
Mac OS
Select Join or Create a team

Select a team type. Choose from Class, Professional Learning, Staff, and Other.


Choose how to create the team
 

We will use Staff as an example. Click on Use this template.

Example using Staff template

 

Always choose Private as the privacy setting. This will require the owner of the team to add any new members.  

Due to the risk of having sensitive information made available to everyone in the organization, Public teams must be approved and created by ITS. If you need a Public team created, please open a Service Request to create a Public team to have it created.

Select private team
 

Enter the team name.  The name should be descriptive to your group or your department. Once created, the name of the team will have “UserCreated” appended. 

give it a descriptive team name
 

Click Add member to add a person or a group to a team. An invitation will be sent to their email account. Once they have accepted the invitation, the person or a group will appear under Members and guests.

add members


type the member's name to find them

Create a Channel

Each team has a General channel for announcements and information.  To add an additional Channel: 

  1. There are two ways to create additional Channels. You can click on the ellipsis  and choose Add Channel. Or you can click on Channels then  +Add channel. 

    click add on the channel tab to create a new channel

  2. First, name your Channel. Then Choose a channel type. 

    give yoru channel a name and type

  • Standard channels are open for all team members and anything posted is searchable by others.

  • Private channels are for discussions that shouldn't be open to all team members.

  • Shared channels are for collaborating with people inside and outside your team or organization.

 

Customize and Manage your Team

  1. Next to the team name, select the ellipsis   for  More options next to the team name. 
    Select Manage team to configure Members, Channels, Settings, and Apps.

 

manage team on Windows

macOS

manage team on macOS

Windows 11

  1. Select Settings to change more team options.

    edit team settings

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