What is Microsoft Teams?
Microsoft Teams is a collaboration app that helps your office, team, or project stay organized and have conversations and meetings — all in one place. It integrates with other Microsoft 365 tools like OneDrive, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Teams is available to all CUNY employees and students (sign in using your CUNY Login).
Watch Microsoft’s Welcome to Teams video for a basic introduction to Teams.
Installing Teams
Teams can be used on the web at https://teams.microsoft.com or you can download Teams for your desktop, iOS, or Android. (If you plan to use Teams frequently, the desktop and mobile apps are recommended.)
Choosing the team type
When you create a new team in Teams for Education, you’ll be asked to select from one of four team types:
- Class: Educators and students collaborating on group projects, assignments, and more.
- Professional Learning Community (PLC): Educators collaborating within a professional learning community.
- Staff: Staff leaders and staff members collaborating on school administration and development.
- Other: Students and school employees collaborating in interest groups and clubs.
Learn more about the features available in the different types of teams.
Learning more about Teams
Whether you’re just getting started with Teams or ready to take your skills to the next level, here are some training resources available from Microsoft:
- Microsoft Teams Quick Start – Get up and running with the basics of Teams with this short playlist from Microsoft (Quick Start Guide)
- Microsoft Teams help center – Microsoft’s official Teams training and user guide
- Microsoft Teams Essential Training (on LinkedIn Learning)
How can I use Teams with students?
Upcoming training by CUNY
Check the CUNY CIS Training hub periodically for upcoming live training schedules and recordings.