Microsoft Teams is a unified communications platform that combines persistent workplace chat, video meetings, file storage (including collaboration on files), and application integration.  - Wikipedia


With Teams, you can:

  • Communicate more effectively. Get your team on the same page with group chat, online meetings, calling, and web conferencing.

  • Work better together. Collaborate on files with built-in Office 365 apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.

  • Customize your workspace. Add in your favorite Microsoft apps and third-party services to keep the business moving forward.

  • Keep your team secure. Get end-to-end security, administrative control, and compliance—all powered by Office 365.


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Features


1. Teams. 

Teams allow communities, groups, or teams to join through a specific URL or invitation sent by a team administrator or owner. Teams for Education allows admins and teachers to set up specific teams for classes, professional learning communities (PLCs), staff members and everyone.


2. Messaging.

Within a team, members can set up channels. Channels are topics of conversation that allow team members to communicate without the use of email or group SMS (texting). Users can reply to posts with images, GIF's and custom made memes. 


Direct messages allow users to send private messages to a specific user rather than a group of people.


Connectors are third party services that can submit information to the channel, some connectors include MailChimp, Facebook Pages, Twitter and Bing News.


3. Calling

  • Instant messaging
  • Voice over IP (VoIP)
  • Video conferencing inside the client software
  • Teams supports public switched telephone network (PSTN) conferencing allowing users to call phone numbers from the client.


4. Meeting

Meetings can be scheduled or created ad-hoc and users visiting the channel will be able to see that a meeting is currently in progress. Teams also has a plugin for Microsoft Outlook to invite others into a Teams meeting.


5. Education

Microsoft Teams allows teachers to distribute, provide feedback, and grade student assignments turned-in via Teams using the Assignments tab, available to Office 365 for Education subscribers. Quizzes can also be assigned to students through an integration with Office Forms.


extracted from Wikipedia