6 NEW features in Microsoft Teams 2021 | Whiteboard updates, Reply to Specific Chat message, & more

In this step-by-step tutorial video, I walk through 6 new features in Microsoft Teams 2021 (Fall). Microsoft Teams new features include a fully re-done and NEW Whiteboard in Microsoft Teams, Reply to Specific Chat message, Breakout Rooms in Teams updates, and lots more. New features in MS Teams are always rolling out and updating, so this can help you keep up with the latest additions.

✅ Microsoft Teams Reply to Specific Chat message:

📝 Table of contents
0:00 Introduction
0:11 Major Whiteboard updates - the all-new Whiteboard
3:24 Reply to specific Chat message
4:03 Breakout Rooms updates - Pre-create rooms easy room assignment, others
5:26 Breakout Rooms co-presenters and owners:
6:50 Background in Teams for web
7:18 Supervised chat, delete chats, etc.

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[sethjuarez]

You could already reply to individual messages using teams on iphone, amazed it took this long to port it into the full app. Still very cool and i love the whiteboard

[SimranKaur-utrm]

This is GREAt! The Breakout Room features I have been waiting a LONG time for! Still not showing up on my account yet but hopefully soon enough!

[bobbyv]

Yes! Been waiting for this. Microsoft is crushing it... did I really just say that? 😳

[Jbiglin]

This was really great! I’m looking forward to trying several of these new / updated features out, especially the updated Whiteboard experience. Thanks for such a clear explanation.

[suzaniematsaat]

Oooh! Very cool! Thank you for the breakout rooms!!!

[lauracampbell]

Super additions. Can't wait until I can play around with the new Whiteboard features.

[LisaGoddard]

Cool video. Can’t wait to try some of these features.

[thearchibaldtuttle]

Teams, the gift that never stops giving!

[arturmeller]

iPad version of Whiteboard does not support those cool shapes and add-ons. However, speed in synchronization is significantly better.

[hungduong]

Now, we could see how helpful Teams is in the good progress. Yet it would be more great if Whiteboard in Teams can open & share the pre-create board. I am not sure that we can now

[Arcadia]

When I send the students into breakout rooms I'd like each group to find a different question or a picture or a table (prepared in advance) to discuss between them and come up with answers/comments to. Is there a way of doing this? Like maybe a dedicated whiteboard they can read from and write on and save for later retrieval when they are back in the main meeting.

[oly]

Excellent tips & tricks, thanks for this Mike!

[reznicencubogdan]

Amazing! Another set of tools for children to play with. Also nice way to put it: "Lots of options here" when there were introduced only six buttons for silly shapes/drawings and some backgrounds and superficial settings. This is getting sillier by the day.

[learnspreadsheets]

Great summary. Do they work with external users? Breakout room presenters? Whiteboard

[jorgweijers]

Hallelujah Mike: Finally the REPLY function in the Desktop version! This WAS a joke not having it....

[shaunydaun]

Great Mike! Where is the whiteboard saved after the meeting? Can we still work on it outside of the meeting?

[TravellingTech]

I really love those new Microsoft Whiteboard features and is changing backgrounds in Microsoft Teams available in Google chrome?

[hognebrunborg]

Hello, Mike ! Great news as allways! Teams for Education still improves! Where is it possible to learn more about deleting chats? Is that an option omly for chat supervisor or for IT-admin? We would really welcome the oportunity to, by certain procedures, ask IT to doccument and then delete profane and bullying chats.

[MyoMinThu]

Thank you for your news feature video.

[larsvandijk]

Great video as per usual. Looking forward to having the ability to make custom templates in Whiteboards. Fingers crossed this comes soon!