Introduction to Teams
Learn how to set up Microsoft Teams in an accessible (yet GDPR compliant) way, which will form the basis of your automations & digitised processes.
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What is the Introduction to Teams?
This unique course is designed to help you understand how to set up Microsoft Teams for yourself, your team, or your business functions. It will take you through how your new knowledge can provide easy & secure access to information, and to create a staging platform for your automated processes in later courses delivered by Simple Foundry.
Is this course right for you?
If any of these sound familiar, then yes, the Introduction to Teams was built for you.
Course contents/modules.
🎥 5-module curriculum at your own pace (with access to these recordings for the lifetime of your subscription)
See the 'modules tab' for more information
Course duration (how long will it take?)
🧠 Most people will take 2-3 hours in total to complete the course, engaging with the interactive elements.
You could complete it in a morning session, and be done before lunch! Or alternatively take your time, and engage with it bit by bit over the course of a week.
Thanks to the online nature, you can complete it at your own pace.
Resources at your fingertips
✍️ This highly practical online course is supported by written materials, quizzes, and interactive activities. This isn't just your standard e-learning!
Tutor support
💻 Full tutor support is on-hand via email, or a drop-in Teams session to talk through what challenges you might be experiencing in relation to the course.
100% online course
Engage with the course when and where you'd like, across any internet enabled device. The course is 100% online, and so there's no need to come to a physical location for it.
Instant access to the online course
Enrol into the appropriate package, and start this course today.
Easy to use platform, with intuitive modules
Log in with your account, click on the 'pages' drop-down, and click on the 'Account Courses' button to get started, it couldn't be easier to get going!
Fully resourced course, at your fingertips
This highly practical online course is supported by written materials, quizzes, and interactive activities. This isn't just your standard e-learning!
Start and stop at your pace
Thanks to the online nature of the course, you're able to start and stop the course whenever you'd like, for the length that your subscription is active.
Tutor Support
Full tutor support is on-hand via email, or a drop-in Teams session to talk through what challenges you might be experiencing in relation to the course.
The course is split up into 5 modules
Each module will be delivered through one or more videos, and a number of interactive elements.
Module 1 - What is Microsoft Teams?
A quick module on what it is, how to download it, how to access it, and the differences between old Teams & new Teams.
Module 2 - Hang on, isn't Teams just SharePoint?
An interactive dive into the differences of Microsoft Teams vs SharePoint, covering key differences in relation to automating your processes
Module 3 - Setting up a Team (Group), GDPR, and data protection
Planning on automating with Teams? This will reference some critical GDPR considerations when you set up your team, and give you some key control on data access
Module 4 - Setting up public & private channels, user access rights, and local settings
Building from the last module, we'll see up access rights, and make sure that everything is set up for your automation to hit the ground running
Module 5 - Tabs, Posts, Chat, Apps, Search Bar, and Integrations
It's all been building to this. Using the resources, we'll go through real-world & repeatable integrations to bring your Team to life.
How do people put what they've learned into practice?
The following real-world examples use takeaways from the modules you've seen in the other tab
Example 1 - Health and Safety Management System
A business was set to spend £30,000 p/a on a 5-year contract for a Health and Safety document repository, with functionality to build interactive Forms into a front-end dashboard, and communicate with their team across 3+ locations over an app on desktop & mobile devices.
Through engaging with them, they were able to build engagement with their teams using a Microsoft Teams based alternative, which had over 90% of their desired functionality. This gave them 2 years of freedom to build digital literacy across their staff, without committing over £60,000 to a system which they weren't going to get the most out of.
Example 2 - Guest access for consultants
A consultancy was supporting a small business of 8 employees, and was struggling to help them with their systems. By setting the small business up with a dedicated Microsoft Teams management system, and adding the consultancy staff as 'guests', the consultancy was able to break a significant blocker and dramatically increased engagement and objective achievement with the small business (their client), significantly ahead of schedule.
Example 3 - Multi-site standardisation in anticipation of ISO accreditation
A senior functional manager was tasked with preparing a multi-site organisation for accreditation. This organisation was previously exceptionally paper-based and struggled to provide remote access to documentation for the manager. By establishing each site with its own Teams channel, under one functional 'team', the manager rolled out a standardised folder framework which married up to a document control standard, and migrated thousands of documents to the cloud.
Example 4 - Reducing admin burden for scanning & storing documents
Thanks to the standard Microsoft Teams app, hundreds of people have directly uploaded information straight into Teams folders, quickly negating the need for cumbersome and expensive proprietary software. For example, a small functional team was struggling to keep track of receipts, often spending hours manually scanning each document to an email, and then moving that file into a dedicated folder for processing. With free mobile phone apps, receipts could be directly scanned, quickly renamed, and then uploaded in bulk to a dedicated Teams folder for processing by a VA.
Example 5 - Collaboration across time, and multiple people
Through properly engaging with Teams chats, a consistent 'flow' of comments, discussions, and notes (supported by OneNote) for a recurring meeting (across a 3 month period) helped keep track of a major project conversation in a large organisation. As the Teams chat integrated with the documents stored online, progress and productivity dramatically increased, and all those involved were always kept up to date with instant push notifications to their desktop and mobile devices. This led to significant accuracy improvements, and efficiency outputs being achieved.
