Using Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a free collaboration and communication tool which includes chat, video conferencing and screen sharing, file sharing and live collaboration, project management tools, simple forms and more.

Teams are commonly set up for research teams, project teams, administration and operational teams and are the University's recommended collaboration tools. Please note Teams is currently limited to members of the University of Oxford meaning that collaborators from other institutions cannot be invited into a Team. We hope this will change in the future, in the meantime please use Skype for Business and OneDrive when working with external collaborators.

Anyone can request a new Team, and team owners can manage ongoing membership (currently limited to members of the University of Oxford with an active SSO account), and enable and configure features directly without involvement of University IT teams.

To request a new team email ict@bsg.ox.ac.uk with the following details:

• The requested name of the team (names will appear in the format "BSG - Team name"
• The names and email addresses of (up to) two team owners
• A short description of the team purpose (if relevant)
• Who will be in the team (e.g. Primarily Academic staff, Students, administrative staff)

New Teams are usually provisioned within 48 hours.

= Microsoft Teams Features =

Chat

Using Teams Chat you can contact colleagues within the University (who are also logged into Teams) using instant messaging, audio or video calls. Other members can be added to create a Group Chat.

Teams

Meetings

Files