Microsoft Teams

Description

Microsoft Teams is a proprietary business communication platform developed by Microsoft, as part of the Microsoft 365 family of products.

Types of use

·   Collaboration

·   Communication

·   Storage

·   Planning

·   Networking

Indicative use in the classroom

·   Students may be assigned to different teams

·   Engage in different discussions in different teams

·   Exchange of files

·   Planning of meetings

·   Teams is able to integrate multiple applications-tools by Microsoft such as outlook, SharePoint, calendar, tasks, forms, etc. and further feature such as on-line and synchronous content and document editing.

Open access

·   A1 plan: Microsoft’s basic, free Microsoft 365 Education plan

·   A3 plan: Desktop versions of all the core Microsoft productivity apps, available for up to five Macs and/or PCs per user and up to five mobile devices per user, plus access to additional apps like Access, Publisher and more

·   A5 plan: All tools from A3 plan, plus Microsoft BI.