An introduction for educatorsMicrosoft Teams

Digital Transformation Team: Catholic Education Western Australia

LEARNING INTENTIONTo provide an overview of Microsoft Teams and explore its use case for education.

SUCCESS CRITERIAA clear, enthused and practical understanding of TEAMS and its use in education

Teams is a chat-centred workspace in Office 365. It brings people,

conversations, files, and tools into one place, so everyone has instant access

to everything they need. ”

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Dudes @ Microsoft

Purpose Use Case

Function

Collaboration

Communication

To create a single space where teams collaborate easily with immediate

access to all their resources

Application curation

A comprehensi

ve digital meeting

room

Scenarios

Teacher

Student

Consultant

1Scenario

Howdy folks. Ms. G here. I teach Year 5 at Sacred Heart Catholic

Primary school and I use Teams with my kids. We have a class team and many

different Channels that cover topics and work

groups. We use to lose a lot of time logging students

on to different programs. Now, with Teams, we have all our programs and resources in one place. Many of my lessons sit in the

Teams’ browser as PowerPoint presentations or OneNotes. My students can open those on any device. This works

well in our BYOD environment as we all get the same

experience irrespective of device. 

‘Sup guys. I’m Jamie. I’m in Year 5 at Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School.

Our teacher uses Teams with us. We have heaps of projects that we work on in

Channels.I reckon it’s good because I never lose anything anymore. All my stuff is in one place. I can just call up a OneNote or PowerPoint to work with friends. I like making team meetings most.

It’s just one click away. Sometimes we Skype our Grade 4 teacher. Mr J, because

he’s really good at Maths and he tells the worst Dad Jokes.  Teams is just easier 

Than looking for everything

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3

Howdy folks. I’m Ali. I work at the CEO Office in the Directorate of School Improvement. I use Teams to organize my notes about the

schools I work with. I share those notes through OneNote which is

now embedded in Teams. I upload mages and videos of exemplary

practice in the files Tab. Our team co-edits school improvement presentations in the Team’s

browser and  we use chat and skype to communicate because we work in different locations. Teams is the digital meeting room I carry

in my backpack and pocket.

4

Good Evening. I’m Peta the principal.

It’s late and I shouldn’t be up but the buck stops with me so yes I’m

flicking through my Team Channels. I use Teams a lot because I am

offsite often and I must be involved in all key decision making. I must have visibility over what my staff

are thinking and sharing. For example, I am included in all Key

Learning Area Team and also their major curriculum channels. Teams provides the easiest way for me to have input into the school that I’m charge of. In the past, I could not see the conversations that were

happening behind closed doors and influence those so that they are

aligned with our school values and direction. But with teams, I can.

Let’s explore TEAMS

1. Download the Teams client software for your PC at: https://teams.microsoft.com/downloads 2. Open and run the software

4. You can now login either through:

a) You client software on your desktop (or)

b) your web login in: teams.microsoft.com

Downloading the client software

3. Pin the Teams application to your taskbar or dock

Log into Teams here.

LOGGING IN

Login

1. Log on to: https://login.microsoftonline.com

2. Your username for this service is your

Surname.firstname@cathednet.wa.edu.au

Password: cathednet password

Your identity syncs with 0365 (AD)

This is your Channel

A work based chat

This is your Channel

Instant video call to group

These tabs connect to 0365 services: OneNote, Sharepoint

Your TEAM

These files come from your OneDrive and OneNotes.

The user has clicked on the TEAMS’ menu to (1) access the Team he belong to called (2) LEADing Learning. He then explores the (3) Channel Playbooks where he finds the (4) files uploaded by another team member. They are working on a publication together.

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Favourited channels listed first. Additional channels listed here.

These meetings will be drawn from your normal outlook calendar

Mr T-Bot is your best FAQ. He/she is the future of computing interfaces by text, voice and AI. Mr T-Bot is very boring now but give him a chance, he/she/it learns and is also very accurate.

TEAMs even comes with its own video user guides making people like the person who made this slide deck scarily redundant. The singularity is near!

Teams is the digital meeting room I carry in my

pocket”

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Dr Ali Ava-tar, Directorate of School Improvement

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