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Microsoft Teams is a multi-user collaboration platform with real-time chat messaging, online meetings (audio, video), shared documents, and app integrations. All of this creates a user-friendly shared workspace where teachers and students can send unlimited messages, share screens, use over 250 integrated apps, and store 2GB of storage per individual.

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The core components:

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• Teams and channels: Continual messaging and conversations. Members can use @username to invite other members into conversations.

• Document storage in SharePoint: Each team shares a site in SharePoint Online where files are stored.

• Video calling, screen sharing, online meetings: Able to host up to 10,000 users with in-meeting chat messaging.

• Audio conferencing: No internet is required with a dial-in number.

 

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The set-up:

1. Organic Approach: Allow the platform to grow organically. Members are free to do what they want in how they choose to communicate. 

2. Controlled Approach: Choose specific access to certain members.

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