Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams brings conversations, content, assignments, and apps together in one place. It offers a centralised hub for communication and collaboration within a team, department or student group, allowing content sharing and access to other apps.

MS Teams integrates directly with all Office 365 applications such as SharePoint and Planner, making it easy for you to communicate and collaborate securely wherever you are with students and staff.

Collaborate - work with your team in real-time enabling you to edit documents and discuss ideas collaboratively
Group Chat - send instant messages to your team
Online Virtual Meeting - host or join and collaborate with Virtual Meetings
Share - your screen, PowerPoint Presentation, running programs, interactive whiteboard and more with other people
Audio Calls - make high quality audio calls with an individual or a group of colleagues.

MS Teams is available on all University managed laptops.

Features of MS Teams

Create Teams and channels for tracking projects, conversations, files, and meetings
Chat with text, audio, video, and file sharing
Store all your files, docs, and more in one place
Schedule meetings that automatically integrate with your existing Outlook calendar
Meet with up to 250 people at the same time
Share your desktop, applications, or a whiteboard during meetings
Automatically record and upload video, audio, and shared content from meetings to Microsoft Stream
Presence indication based on each person's Teams activity, manual status settings, and Outlook calendar
Integrate your favourite apps - Planner, Trello, GitHub, and many more (Note: currently Edinburgh Napier University only allows connection to other Office 365 apps)

How Teams can help you work together

Chat-based team workspaces

Chat instantly with peers and colleagues from on or off-campus
Quickly get in touch using video calls
Create teams to organise your files, tasks and projects
Customise your Team workspace to fit your needs

Integrated Office apps and OneDrive

Work together on documents with integrated Office 365 apps, like Word and Excel
Easily access and share files from your OneDrive account, right from the app

To request a team workspace, please use the form here on UniDesk. Please be aware that in order to complete the form you will first need to read the guidance on Team Types.

MS Teams has replaced Skype for Business

Previously you had use both MS Teams and Skype for Business (S4B) for internal calls, meetings and chat (IM).

S4B will no longer be available after 31 July 2021. After this point, if anyone sends you an S4B message, it will appear in your Teams app.

Training and support resources

Getting Started with MS Teams

There’s a lot of information out there, and it can be daunting. We have assembled our top picks for getting started with MS Teams below.

More guides from Microsoft:

askNapier articles:

MS Teams Frequenty Asked Questions

General Teams FAQs

What is Microsoft Teams and why would I use it?
What are teams?
How do I create a team?
Which browsers are supported?
How do I install MS Teams on my pc/laptop/mobile device?

How do I log out of Microsoft Teams?
What can a team owner do?
Where can I connect with other users at Napier to get tips and advice?

Teams Chat FAQs

How do I send a message to someone individually?
Can I hide or mute a chat if I temporarily don’t want to see it?
How do I edit or delete a chat in Teams?
What is a group and how do I create one?

Teams Channels FAQs

What’s a channel?
How can I delete a channel?
Where are files stored that are shared in a Team or Channel?

How do I tag someone in a channel?

Teams Meeting FAQs

Do I have to be part of a Team to schedule a Teams meeting?
How can I schedule a meeting/group call with Teams?
What is MeetNow?
How do I access meeting settings for a meeting?

Guests FAQs

How do I collaborate with someone outside the University on MS Teams?
How I change who can bypass the Lobby?
How do I join a meeting I’ve been invited to as a guest to another organization?
How do I invite someone outside Edinburgh Napier University to a meeting?

A: Set up a meeting through Outlook and include them in the invite, as per usual, using their email address. They will have to wait in the lobby to join, but anyone in the meeting can admit them.