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  • Core Features

    • Access the SharePoint Site of My Team
      Instructions for accessing SharePoint site of Microsoft Teams
    • Change Your Background in a Teams Meeting
      There are a few options if you wish to change what’s viewed as your background during a video meeting or call. You can add a blur to your background or replace it entirely. Teams comes with a...
    • Chat, Calls, and Meetings
      Chat is one of the central components of Microsoft Teams. More lightweight than email and well suited for a quick interaction, it can also easily lead into an audio or video call, or sharing...
    • Enhance Chat with Formatting, Files, and More
      When you're having a conversation in Teams, rich formatting, files, and other features are at your fingertips. 
    • Join and Create Channels and Teams
      About Teams and Channels Teams and channels allow groups working toward a common goal, or who have similar interests, to have a dedicated space for: Conversation File...
    • Mute Notifications During Teams Meeting
      Microsoft provides directions for muting distracting notifications, while still allowing activity-related alerts during your meeting in Teams.
    • OneNote Notebook in a Teams Channel
      If you'd like the benefit of full-featured note-taking in a Microsoft Teams channel, you can add a OneNote notebook. Everyone in the channel will be able to view and make edits, or in the case of...
    • Request License for Teams Dial-In Numbers
      Microsoft Teams requires an audio conferencing license to add dial-in numbers to a meeting. Only the meeting organizer needs the audio conferencing license to add dial-in numbers to a...
    • Send Praise in Teams
      You can recognize someone in a Teams chat or channel for an achievement, leadership, being a problem solver or a team player, or several other categories. It's done using the Praise feature,...
    • Set Your Preferred Name or Other Name Preferences
      Faculty and staff can use Workday to edit the way their name will appear in email messages and other campus systems.
    • Shared Channels in Microsoft Teams
      You can create a shared channel in Microsoft Teams. Shared channels allow collaboration between people on your team and people outside your team, which can include Cornell faculty, students,...
    • Speaker Coach Helps You Improve Your Presentations
      Speaker Coach can help you to become a better speaker by providing private feedback on your pacing, pitch, use of filler words, informal speech, euphemisms, and inclusiveness. It also detects...
    • Take Advantage of Accessibility Features in Microsoft Teams
      There are numerous accessibility features built into Microsoft Teams. Microsoft has two collections of information, relating to meeting or live event features or use with a screen reader....
    • Tasks by Planner and To Do
      Tasks by Planner and To Do provides collaborative, visual task management for teams. The service makes use of drag-and-drop organization of task cards that can have associated assignees...
    • Teams Basics: Get Oriented With Teams, Channels, Tabs, and Chat
      The left navigation column directs you to Chat, Teams, and more.
    • Teams' Speaker Coach
      Speaker Coach provides feedback on your speaking skills. 
    • Use Breakout Rooms for Small Group Discussion
      Meeting organizers can create breakout rooms in a Microsoft Teams meeting. Breakout rooms let attendees separate into small groups during a meeting. The rooms can be opened and closed multiple...
    • Why Use Teams File Storage?
      Microsoft Teams is designed for easy collaboration on Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. You can edit your document right inside Teams, in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint on the web. Or you can use...