Top 8 NEW features in Microsoft Teams 2021 // Q&A app, Search, Viva & more

Learn about the top 8 Microsoft Teams new features for Winter 2021. MS Teams new features include a full overhauled Search experience, Q&A for Teams Meetings, Viva Learning and Viva Insights, Forms Word Cloud, Transcription for Channel Meetings in Teams, and lots more. New features in Teams are always rolling out and updating, so this can help you keep up with the latest additions.

📝 Table of contents
0:00 Introduction
0:11 Search improvements
1:57 Q&A app in Microsoft Teams meetings
6:49 Word Cloud for Forms poll in Teams meetings
8:16 Transcription for Channel meetings in Teams
10:08 Viva Learning in Teams
12:54 Viva Insights in Teams
15:29 Mirror video
15:55 Clippy stickers

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[sirkhelcircle]

I have tried the Q&A app and it is a great addition to a Teams meeting. However, I am looking for an option similar to the Live Events Q&A feature that participants may choose to ask anonymously. Maybe in the future the team will add this. As always, thank you Mike for the updates! 🎉👏

[trini_ice_queen]

Excited for Q&A and word cloud in forms. As a modern foreign language teacher I can see how this will work wonderfully to keep my kids engaged especially since i can preset the questions. 🎉

[briangibson]

“I’m Going To Need Those TPS Reports ASAP. So, If You Could Do That, That’d Be Good work Mike. :)

[matthewadavid]

I watch most of your videos and then encourage my teams to do the same. Great content.

[kkonitzer]

Love the updates. Question: when will these features (polls/forms) be added to Channel meetings? My educators exclusively use channel meetings with students and would love these features there.

[nikomesa]

Hi Mike, great videos! YOu have a new follower and fan! Mike, just a question, how do you to share the screen en teams and see the camera without any background, I mean, how to see only my face as you to stanting this video?

[WalbertoFlores]

Always improving! I love Microsoft Teams!

[isamalasmoi]

Mike, can you please show us how to create out off officr reply for out side orignazation only

[rifenakurniawan]

OH MY GOD these are really HELPFUL!!! Thank you!

[CheloTOTAL]

Thanks Mike! Good list of features... but still missing a good Manager Account that let me having my two Work Profiles, and the ability to switch back and forth between the two...

[carlyselena]

This is great, thank Mike.
A couple of questions - will the Viva Insights app in Teams eventually have all the functionalities and insights that the old web-based insights has? Right now I’m toggling between the two.
Secondly - is there any update to meeting owners and the ability to delegate ownership? My GM’s PA sets all of our meetings up, which means I am unable to deploy some of the functionality, even noted as a presenter. Will be interesting to see if I can run the q&a app.

[AWS]

The Q&A, Yammer-style, in meeting has been a long awaited feature. It's a shame it's not fully practical yet because the Q&A is not viewable in Web browser.

[snapsaurs]

Sigh... Surely there is a way to see chat msgs that were before and after the one you found through search. Chats are conversations and not seeing the before and after once a keyword is searched is super painful. Main reason we use channels more over chat for work.

[ihelpcafe]

Mike, Can you make a video how to link grades in teams with my SIS please

[emenpee]

Hi Mike, when will custom backgrounds functionality in team web be available? It was announced to be rolled out in October 2021. But it still isn't available.

[roboticeye]

Do you know when they will fix the breakout rooms to allow co-teachers? We're having an issue that means I have to put students in breakout rooms and then send my TA to the 20 rooms...that's me switch board operating every 20 seconds for 1.5 hours. Is there any fix to this?

[raajalakshmisivaramakrishn]

When will we get a delete option for the chat. Clear all chat option ?

[hattieL]

Will guests have access to the Q&A tab after the meeting has ended?

[andriicsharp]

Why does not it sync bookmarked courses with Microsoft Learn account???

[RamRajimuthaarakarthiyaayini]

When will these update come for India ???