Summary
Microsoft Staff and PLC Teams provide the perfect location to work with colleagues on projects, curriculum adoptions, and even university-wide initiatives. Administrators can communicate and collaborate with their faculty in one location. Policies and procedures, forms, instructions for various tasks and responsibilities, and more can all be shared within Teams for quick access. Teams supports online meetings with screen share and whiteboard annotation that can be recorded, automatically saved, and transcribed in Stream. Whether one’s colleagues are down the hall or in another building across town, Staff and PLC Teams support collaboration among educators.
This module examined the collaborative capabilities of Microsoft Teams. Teams can be used to collaboratively drive the work of academic departments on any device regardless of where the team members are located. It also described the ways Teams can be set up to allow guests to join the collaborative work. To best aid academic departments in working robustly and efficiently, Teams ability to include third party apps was described.