Student Collaboration in Teams

Owned by Dan Jakubiak
Last updated: Aug 15, 2024
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Teams offers many different ways that students can collaborate. Teams is tightly integrated with Microsoft 365 and can be used as a central hub for many 365 tasks.

Teams can be fully accessed in a web browser and through a desktop application. This guide will use the web app (website).

Students can use Teams to instant-message anyone at the university. Students can create group chats and they can create teams to centralize work on a project.

Communication

Message other students

Students can send direct messages to anyone at the university.

  1. Visit https://teams.microsoft.com and sign in with your UConn email address and your NetID password.

  2. Click on the Chat tab in the left-hand menu, then click on New Chat at the top.

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    This New Chat button resembles a pen and paper.

  3. Begin to type the name of your desired recipient.

    1. If you’d like to message more than one person, type in another name.

  4. Type your message!

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Collaboration

Teams acts as a hub for many 365 apps; these apps can be accessed from within Teams.

Students can work on OneDrive and SharePoint files, and create new ones, from within Teams.
By creating a “team” in Teams, students can create a central repository for files and communication.

  1. Visit https://teams.microsoft.com and sign in with your UConn email address and your NetID password.

  2. Click on the Teams tab in the left-hand menu, then click on Join or create team in the top right corner. Click Create team.

  3. Choose a template for your team.
    These are simply layout templates; they all have the same features once the team is created.

  4. Be sure to choose Private for your team’s privacy setting. If it is set to public, anyone at the university will be able to view/edit/delete the team’s files.

  5. Add others to your team and set their privilege (owner vs member).

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One-time file shares

If you would like to share a file with another person as a one time transaction (you’re not part of a team as mentioned above), there are multiple ways to do so.

Using OneDrive (your cloud files), there are multiple places you can use the Share function, but they all behave the same way.

Directly from computer

If you would like to share a file without opening your email, you can do so directly from File Explorer (Windows) and Finder (macOS).

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Email

OneDrive files can be sent through email and allow simultaneous editing, or files can be sent as an Attachment to create discrete copies.

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