Microsoft Teams              Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is Office 365's hub for teamwork and is available for faculty and staff use. It is a collaboration tool that provides employee teams with the ability to work together and share information via a common space. You can utilize features like document collaboration, one-on-one chat, team chat, and more. Microsoft Teams is also fully integrated with many other Office 365 services.  Microsoft Teams can be access through LSUE's Office 365 Portal or the Teams desktop and mobile application. 

Features

  • Document collaboration
  • Persistent one-on-one/group chat
  • Persistent Team chat
  • Meetings/Calls   
  • Integration with other Office 365 apps

Notes about Microsoft Teams at LSUE

  • Microsoft Teams at LSUE is for internal collaboration only.  However, external people can attend meetings in Teams.
  • A Microsoft Team is not required to use one on one chat, group chat, and meeting functionality in the Microsoft Teams application.
  • Placing a voice/video call to another employee through Teams is available.  However, placing a call to a phone number outside of campus is not.
  • Ad-hoc creation of new teams is disabled at LSUE. Please contact OIT to request a new Microsoft Team.
  • The Teams desktop app is loaded onto faculty and staff computers as part of the normal computer setup.

Accessing Teams

Microsoft Teams can be access through LSUE's Office 365 Portal or the Teams desktop and mobile application. 

Training and Support?

For faculty and staff overview videos, the following training sessions are available.  To access the sessions, faculty and staff can login with their LSUE network credentials.

Additionally, Microsoft provides a general short overview on Teams within the following Microsoft Support area.

For additional information around Microsoft Teams, please Contact OIT.