MS Teams for Students
Microsoft Teams (MS Teams) is a component of Microsoft 365 designed for online collaboration, linking together email, shared documents, and file storage with real-time communication tools.
Getting Started with MS Teams
For more information please see: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/teams/
MS Teams enables text chat within custom ‘channels’ based on groups, topics, or projects. MS Teams also enables video conferencing, which can be used within the context of a ‘team’ (group of users and online workspace) or separately for online meetings, teaching, video calls, and webinars.
MS Teams is used for a range of reasons at Queen Mary, these include:
- Hybrid Teaching
- Group presentations
- Conferences and Events
- Townhalls
- Teaching spaces for sharing material and arranging breakout groups.
To start using MS Teams, simply open teams.microsoft.com, log in with your QMUL credentials, and use MS Teams on the web or download the Desktop Client on your PC.
You can find more information on using MS Teams and QMs good use policy on using MS Teams here: