Course 2: Let’s share | Directions for presenter

Handouts

The activities outlined in these handouts guide teachers to apply what they’ve learned through low-risk, step-by-step experimentation.

By practicing these skills now, participants can immerse themselves in learning while you are there for support. In some cases, teachers can flip the script and try these activities in their own classes.

Included:• Learner skills checklist• Test your knowledge of Teams features activity• Conversations in Teams activity• Private chats in Teams activity• Files in Teams activity• Meetings activity

The students become, well, the teachers.

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Course 2: Let’s share | Teacher handout

As you progress through this Teams training, check off each skill as you learn it:

Learner skills checklist: 1-2 hour training

Start a private chat, and:

Start a conversation, and:

�� Send a message.

�� @mention a colleague.

�� Post a reminder.

�� Customize your message with gifs, stickers, fonts, text size, and text color.

�� Save a message for future reference.

�� Mark a message as important.

�� Customize your message with gifs, stickers, fonts, text size, and text color.

�� Save one message for future reference.

Upload a file to a conversation, and:

�� Edit the file from the conversation.

�� Talk to your teammates in Teams while editing the file.

�� Find the file you’ve uploaded in the Files tab.

�� Share a link to the file in a private chat.

�� Save the message with the file.

�� Search for the file in the Command box.

Creative doodles and brilliant notes encouraged in the margins!

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Course 2: Let’s share | Teacher handout

Launch a meeting from a private chat and:

�� Invite additional people to the meeting.

�� Share your screen.

�� Share a file to the meeting.

�� Hang up. Answer the meeting call when another participant calls back.

�� Hang up for good this time. Launch a new meeting from a conversation instead.

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Fill in the blanks below to test your Teams knowledge.

Test your knowledge of Teams features

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Course 2: Let’s share | Teacher handout answer key

Course 2: Let’s share | Teacher handout

�� Add the members of your current table group to your team if they’re not part of it already (see image below).

�� Post a reminder or announcement for a field trip to the Conversation stream. �� @mention a team member for feedback.

Let’s get some discussion rolling!

Start a conversation

Extra challenge

Conversations in Teams activity handout

�� For fun, add a gif or emoji to your message.�� Get creative with text sizes and colors.�� Mark a message as important and save it.

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Select the More button next to the Team, then Add members.

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�� Start a private chat with another team member (see below).

�� Play with the format of a message. Change the font, size, and color.

�� Add an emoji, sticker, and gif to your chat.

�� Save one message for future reference.

Sometimes, it’s best to talk one-to-one. Here’s how: Start a chat

Private chats in Teams activity handout

Go Team! You’re officially launched.

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1. Type the name of the contact you're looking for into the search box.

2. Type your message in the Type a new message box.

3. Send your message.

Course 2: Let’s share | Teacher handout

�� Upload a file to a conversation.�� Edit the file from the conversation. Talk to your other teammates as you edit within Teams.�� Navigate to where that file is now saved within your team. (Yes, you can always find it in the conversation itself, but sometimes files get buried when there are lots of messages. We want to be sure you can find them where they’ve been filed (see image below).�� Share a link to a file to a private chat.�� Save the message with the file (see image below).�� Search for the file you just uploaded in the Command box search bar.

Did you know you can edit files without leaving Teams and keep your conversations going with teammates at the same time?

Try this

Files in Teams activity handout

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Did you find the file? Hint: select Files from the App Tab.

1. Each time someone shares a file in a conversation, it's added to the Files tab in your channel.

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2. When in the Conversations tab, save a file thats been sent via chat by clicking the tag icon.

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4. Send your message.

�� Launch a meeting from a private chat (see image below).�� Invite additional people.�� Practice answering a Meet now call when someone else is calling you.�� Share your screen. �� Share a file to the call (see image below).

Let’s get the collaboration going in real life—or at least over video chat.

Meet now

Extra challenge

Meetings activity handout

�� Launch a meeting from a conversation.

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1. To meet privately, open a chat with someone.

2. Select the video or phone icons to call them.

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3. Select the paperclip icon below the chat box and choose your method for uploading a file.