Top 20 Microsoft Teams Tips & Tricks

In this step-by-step tutorial, learn the top 20 best Microsoft Teams tips and tricks.

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⌚ Timestamps
0:00 Introduction to Microsoft Teams Tips & Tricks
0:14 Spotlight video
1:25 Don't allow attendees to unmute
2:00 Manage permissions and set who can present
2:32 Download attendance list
2:57 Whiteboard
3:53 Personalize video background
5:30 Transcribe meeting
6:56 CTRL + Shift + M shortcut to toggle mute
7:40 Order of hand raises
8:31 Live captions
9:07 Insert a quick poll
10:42 Save messages
11:48 Pin messages
12:28 Create rich text messages & announcements
13:41 Shortcut keys
14:19 Show or Hide Teams and Channels
15:28 Post to a team via email
16:11 Apps
17:15 Dark mode
17:48 Filter activity to @ mentions

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[savatar]

Every day a video with quality content... best informative channel on YT.
I've already learned a lot from your videos, thanks! You're doing a great job!

[TylerStanczak]

I needed this. Super helpful tips. Thanks Kevin! :)

[tttchik]

Consider my mind BLOWN!!! I am an EA that has worked in C-Suites and retired 2 years ago. The last international company I was working for was just implementing Teams so it was not as dynamic as it is now. What an incredible tool! I certainly hope my former colleagues have received training for all these amazing tips.

[jillclement]

Just wanted to let you know that your channel is awesome. I work for a very large organization and we have a dedicated team that supports MS Teams, but I find your videos to be more helpful than most of the training they’ve put out. Keep up the great work!

[billyhill]

omg, this is actually the best video I have seen this year, thanks for sharing Kevin!

[apatterson]

Kevin, we teachers are truly indebted to you. You have no idea how much you help us. I tell all of my colleagues about your channel.

[AnirbanPalevitative]

Hey Kevin, I'm a big fan of your video tutorials. They are beautifully made and very crisp. I was wondering if you could make a video on some of the best 3rd party apps within teams especially related to education and student assessment. It would be a big help, thanks.

[corinaaskew]

Hi Kev I wanted to thank you for all your tutorials ! I went back to when you started these, each day I watch them. I'm learning so much .I feel like I'm taking free classes, except I'm learning more than what they would teach in a paid classroom !Your video tutorials are well explained and ...well your just awesome! Thank you again and keep them coming !

[ashaerler]

Thanks for the close caption! I love everything that adds accessibility!

[MissionComputers]

Awesome Tips Kevin! I’ve recommended all these tips to my clients except for the transcripts, thanks.

[simplyshyrell]

Thank you again!! Extremely informative. Thorough, step by step information.

[kingsway]

Perfect for all my online classes I have during corona now

[k.c]

Wow! I just was saying that I needed a video on this!

[GenericAccountVLR]

Love the ability to post a message to a Channel from Outlook email. Especially since we get the full selection of highlight colors, etc. from Mail which we don't get if we post directly in the Channel's Posts area. Woohoo! Thank you for this.

[realol]

i like how youtube recommended this after my teacher announced that were using MS teams (yesterday)

[lenkanovotna]

This was just great! Thanks so much for sharing the tips!!!

[heatherfeather]

Adding one more tip. You can have panelist turn on videos, put everyone in the theatre mode seats, share your screen, and everyone sees the same people and all panelists can interact! We also use for group photos and take screen shots. This is great for retirement and end of conference photos!

[LisaGoddard]

We just had some Teams Training yesterday as we are early adopters in our organisation. Not everything is available to us yet as they are rolling things out in stages but there are pretty cool features. A good one I picked up was how powerful typing / in the search bar at the top of teams is and also how to quickly send a message to multiple people that you contact regularly.

[STARBELLYSOCK]

Kevin, .. thank you! You're an incredible trainer, you anticipate my questions with answers before I can ask them.

[civildocuments]

Thanks Kevin, it's really helpful to control the meeting with students