Microsoft Teams is a video conferencing and productivity platform that ties together multiple Microsoft applications and services in one location to facilitate communication and collaboration. Microsoft Teams gives you access to Chat, Calendar, Tasks by Planner and To do, and many more applications.
Microsoft Teams at KAUST is our primary video conferencing tool, but you can also use it video chat, share your screen, message back and forth, collaborate on documents and so much more!
Explore Microsoft Teams on the web in a browser, on your machine with the application, or even on your phone or tablet within the mobile application.
A team is a group of people gathered to get something big done in your organization. Sometimes it’s your whole organization.
Teams are made up of channels, which are the conversations you have with your teammates. Each channel is dedicated to a specific topic, department, or project.
Channels are where the work actually gets done—where text, audio, and video conversations open to the whole team happen, where files are shared, and where apps are added.
While channel conversations are public, chats are just between you and someone else (or a group of people). Think of them like instant messages in Skype for Business or other messaging apps.
FYI—If you're working in Teams offline, or on a low-bandwidth network, you'll be able to switch between chats and channels and keep working. You'll see everything from the last time we were able to sync to your network, and we'll trickle messages in as bandwidth allows.
All KAUST provided machines come with Microsoft Teams installed on your device. If you are using a personal device, Mac or Windows, you can download the desktop application.
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