Navigate the Teams space

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Microsoft has created a user-friendly dashboard within Teams that's easy to navigate.

When launching the Teams app, users will arrive at the Teams dashboard. The center of the screen will contain white tiles with various icons. Each icon represents a team to which the learner or educator belongs. These may be teams created or joined, or teams the user has been added to by another person.

Once a team is selected, that team's workspace opens. This workspace is divided into two primary areas: a Me Space and a We Space. In the Me Space are notifications about recent activity, private chats, teams, assignments, meetings, files and apps. We call this navigation bar the Me Space because it contains controls and notifications specifically for that user.

The We Space is meant for collaboration. The main part of the dashboard is where conversations take place with learners or colleagues. It’s also the place to share files, assignments, shared documents, and notes. There are many ways to customize the team, and that starts with adding channels.

Channels are just another way to divide different aspects of each team into categories, such as units of study, professional topics, themes, agenda items, etc. The ability to personalize the workspace is one of the most useful features of Teams.