The many faces of Teams

Teams as a communication tool

Microsoft Teams simplifies communication with colleagues, customers, and partners. With Teams you can chat, call video conference, and share files - all within a single app. Additionally, you can create channels to organise your conversations by topic, project, or team. This keeps you informed about ongoing activities and enables you to respond quickly to questions or feedback. Teams streamlines communication and minimises misunderstandings.

Teams as a virtual environment for your meetings

Microsoft Teams facilitates online meetings with individuals both inside and outside your organisation. You can share your screen, presentations, documents, and whiteboards with participants. Additionally, features like live subtitles, background blur, polls, and breakout rooms make meetings more interactive and inclusive. Teams ensures that your meetings run efficiently and productively, regardless of your location.

Teams as an environment to run apps like Planner or Power BI in

Microsoft Teams allows you to integrate apps like Planner and Power BI into your workspace. With Planner, you can manage tasks, set deadlines, track progress, and assign tasks to team members. Power BI enables you to visualise, analyse, and share data with colleagues. Additionally, you can add other essential apps such as OneNote, Forms, Stream, and more. Teams gives access to all the tools you need to work efficiently, without the need to switch between apps.

Teams as an interface for collaboration in SharePoint Online

Microsoft Teams is built on SharePoint Online, making it easy to collaborate on documents, sites, and lists. You can store, edit, and sync your files in Teams, and share them with your team or external parties. Additionally you can create and manage SharePoint Sites directly from Teams, using them to structure and present your information. Teams also allows you to secure your documents and sites with permissions and policies. This enhances your collaboration and document management.

Gain time and increase your efficiency with Microsoft 365 Apps

When you have many tasks to follow up on, it can be difficult to keep track and prioritise. Fortunately, there are several apps that can help you plan, manage and track your work. This session explains 4 Microsoft apps that manage your tasks more efficiently: Planner, ToDo, Lists and OneNote. 


In Planner, you can assign tasks to team members, set deadlines, add files, make comments and view progress. Planner is especially useful for collaboration, as you can easily communicate with your team and keep up to date on the status of your projects.

ToDo manages your personal and professional tasks. You can create lists for different purposes.You can learn to add tasks to your daily schedule, set reminders, create subtasks, add notes and share your tasks with others. ToDo can synchronise with your Outlook calendar and e-mail.

Lists helps you collect, organise and share information in lists. You can create lists for different types of data, such as inventory, customers, events, contacts or ideas. You learn to customise lists with columns, filters, sorting, views and rules. You will learn to integrate your lists with other Microsoft apps, such as Teams, SharePoint and Power Apps. Lists is useful for managing data, automating processes and improving productivity.

OneNote helps you create, organise and find your notes. You learn to take notes in different forms, such as text, images, audio, video, drawings or web clips. You learn to organise your notes into notebooks, sections and pages. You learn to search, edit, share and synchronise your notes with your other devices.  

Impress with your presentation

If you want to enhance your reports and presentations with interactive and visual elements, there are a number of Microsoft 365 apps that can help you do that. In this session, we will show you how to use Power BI Services to dynamically report in Teams, how to use Viva Engage to create a blog for your colleagues, how to use Sway to create a storybook for your clients and how to use PowerPoint to integrate a quiz into your presentation. These apps will help you better communicate your message, engage your audience and visualise your data.

You will learn to use PowerBI Services to create reports and dashboards that bring your data to life with interactive charts, maps, tables and more. You can integrate PowerBI Services into Teams, so you share your reports and dashboards with your team members.Now you can view, explore, filter and sort your report or dashboard in Teams. You will also learn to add comments, use @mentions, add emojis and stickers and respond to others' comments. You will learn to pin, copy, delete or edit your report or dashboard from the tab. 

You will learn to use Viva Engage to share your knowledge, ideas, experiences and insights with your colleagues, showcase your expertise, expand your network and promote your professional development. You will learn to view, edit, delete or share your blogs from within the site.

In Sway, you will learn to create and share storybooks in Microsoft 365. You tell your story using text, images, videos, audio, graphics and more. You can view, edit, delete or export your storybook, as well as view, search, filter and sort others' storybooks on Sway.


You learn to enrich your PowerPoint presentations with animations, transitions, sounds and effects. You will learn to integrate a quiz into your PowerPoint presentation using the forms function.

Outlook Desktop and Outlook Online

Outlook and Teams serve different purposes:

• Outlook is primarily focussed on email management, calendars, and tasks. It is indispensable for email-centric taks and communication.
• Teams, on the other hand, is a collaboration platform designed for real-time communication, document collaboration, and task management. It is ideal for projects where teamwork and instant communication are essential.

Skip the line with the use of mobile apps

A mobile office on your smartphone has productivity caps and tools to perform work-related tasks.

It allows you to stay productive even when you are on the move.

- Your email client manages all your emails. Create folders for different subjects, set filters and highlight important messages.
- Your calendar keeps track of all your appointments, meetings and deadlines. Set reminders and share your calendar with colleagues.
- Even on your smartphone, edit your text files, spreadsheets and presentations, note down your tasks!
- Take notes, create your to-do lists and keep track of important information.
- Store your files securely in the cloud, so you always have access to them, even when you are away from the office.

In short, your mobile apps allow you to get to work at any time or place. They also add extra functionality to your smartphone.