School involves a lot of moving parts. Classes, classmates, documents, projects, and more. With Microsoft Teams for Education, you can connect with all of these parts to make everything seamless, even if you're not in the classroom. Let's take a look. 

To get started, open the Microsoft Teams app from your desktop, browser, or mobile device. The first thing you'll see are all of the classes or teams that you're a part of. To join a scheduled class meeting, select your Calendar, Join, then Join now after you've adjusted your video and audio settings. From the toolbar, you can turn your camera on and off, mute and unmute your microphone, share your desktop or documents, engage in chat conversations related to the meeting in the shared chat, and see who is in the meeting. Using the more actions menu, you can do even more, such as blurring the background of your video, which is great when your background isn't super tidy. 

Teams for Classes keep your class conversations, files, and assignments all together. But you can also create your own teams, too, which is great for group projects, clubs, activities, and more. Select Join or create team. Create team, give your team a name, a description, decide who can join your team, and select Next. Enter the names of the students you want in the group. Choose them, repeat until all your group members are listed. Then select Add, and Close. 

If your project has multiple parts, add Channels to break them up. Select the More options menu, Add channel, give your channel a name and a description. Choose who can join the channel and select Add. To get people working in your new channel, just at mention them in a post. Now your group can chat, share files, and add tabs for important documents and apps, all within your channel. Work directly with your class, get homework help, ask questions, or keep your group on track, all in one place. 

To study up on all things Microsoft Teams for Education, check out support.office.com/education.