From the course: Microsoft Teams: Successful Meetings, Webinars and Events

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From the course: Microsoft Teams: Successful Meetings, Webinars and Events

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- [Instructor] This is the newest version of a course that was created at the beginning of the COVID pandemic. And my goal at that time was to make it easy for people to quickly start using Teams for meetings, even though all of their meetings or most of them had previously been held in person. And my goal is similar now. The goal is to make it easy for you to quickly leverage Microsoft Teams as your meeting platform, whether you're joining an organization that uses Teams or you're in an organization that's considering using Teams and you're one of the people who's checking it out. There are several different versions of Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams for Work, Microsoft Teams for Education, Microsoft Teams for Home, and relatively new, Microsoft Teams Premium, which is enhanced with artificial intelligence. In this course, we will be focusing completely on Microsoft Teams for Work. If you'd like to learn more about the Education or Home versions of Teams, you'll find courses in the LinkedIn Learning Library on those particular versions. For this course then, you'll want Microsoft Teams for Work. It helps if you have some prior experience using Teams. This course is not about learning Teams from the ground up, but there is a course that does that in the LinkedIn Learning Library. It's called Microsoft Teams Essential Training, and it's taught by my colleague, Nick Brazzi. He will get you up and running with all of Teams, Teams in its entirety. But this course focuses on the meeting uses of Teams. So if you're learning this software so that you can use it with other people, I encourage you to recruit one or two friends, one or two colleagues who would be willing to try things out with you, maybe even take this course at the same time. Because there's a difference in how I learn if I can actually practice the things that I'm learning in a way that's relevant and meaningful in my work life. That might be true for you as well. There are different ways that we connect to Teams using different applications. There are three broad types of apps. The first are desktop apps, then we have web clients, in other words, run it in a browser, and finally, mobile apps. There are desktop apps for Teams available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, although the Linux app still does not support all of the meeting features that you'll see in this course. I will be using the Microsoft app for Windows in this course. And these apps are available for free, both as part of Microsoft 365 or as an app that your use of Teams is the only Microsoft product that you're using out of the Microsoft 365 suite. That desktop app for Windows looks like this. As you can tell, a pretty easy week for me. But here we are in Microsoft Teams Windows desktop. There's also a web client. If you fire up a browser and go to teams.microsoft.com, you can log in to a web client for Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams has a lot of moving parts. Not every browser is able to support every single feature of Teams. So if you're using Teams, whenever you choose to use a web client, I want to recommend that you use one of the two browsers that fully support Teams, Microsoft Edge Chromium or Google Chrome. When you're running the web client for Teams, it looks like this, a lot like the desktop client we saw a moment ago, but clearly running inside of a browser, in this case, Edge. There are some great mobile apps for Teams. They're available for iOS and Android. And you'll find the iOS app in the Apple App Store and Android in Google Play. And when you see me demonstrate a mobile app, I'll be using the iOS app. With all of those details in mind, we're ready to continue. So make sure that you have Microsoft Teams desktop app appropriate for Mac or Windows, or you can start with a web client in one of the two supported browsers, and a mobile app is a nice thing to have. It's time to begin meeting. I'll see you in the next movie.

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