Changing the Privacy Settings for a Team
Owners of a team can manage the settings and permission for that team. This article explains how to make a team either private or public.
If a team is public, anyone at UConn can add to, edit, and delete the contents. This is a potential security concern. If the team contains sensitive information and access is unmanaged, it could be the cause of a data leak.
If you intend to have a public team, verify that the data within it are not confidential or protected.
How to make a team public or private
Within both public and private teams, you can have a private section that is more restricted than the rest of the team. If you would like to learn more about private channels, please visit https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/27700756481.
Open Teams in the desktop client or on the web.
Click on the Teams icon within Teams.
Note: if this button brings you directly to a team, click on < All teams in the top-left corner.
Find the tile of the Team you wish to manage and click the three dots in the upper right-hand corner.
Select Manage team from the drop-down menu.
Click Settings in the upper horizontal navigation bar.
Click Edit.
In the pop-up window, you’ll see fields for information about the team. Click the drop-down menu under Privacy.
If you want your Team to be private, select “Private – Only team owners can add members.” If you want your Team to be public, select “Public – Anyone in your organization can join.”
Unless there is a specific need, the team should be private.
Click Done.