LEARNING ACTIVITIES
The following learning activities will help participants gain the knowledge necessary to meet the course goals and objectives.
Goal 1: At the completion of the course, participants will be able to use Microsoft Teams for staff communications and teamwork.
Objective 1: Learners will be able to navigate to chat section of Teams, edit contact list, and initiate a chat session from their list of contacts.
Activities:
- Overview of chat
- Demonstration of how to use the chat feature
- Participant practice using the chat feature
- Participants complete competency assessment of using Microsoft Teams chat feature. (Full list of course assessments found HERE)
Objective 2: Learners will be able to navigate to the appropriate channel in Teams and add a project update post.
Activities:
- Overview of project updates
- Demonstration of how to use Teams channels – including how to navigate to specific channels and add/edit posts.
- Participants will practice adding and editing posts on a predetermined Teams channel.
- Participants will complete a competency assessment of using Microsoft Teams conversation and post feature to share project updates. (Full list of course assessments found HERE)
Objective 3: Learners will be able to navigate to the appropriate channel in Teams and add personal messages, memes, and photos that tag their fellow staff members.
Activities:
- Overview of showing team recognition in Microsoft Teams
- Demonstration of how to use Teams for posting recognition communications – including using emojis, animated gifs, tagging, and reactions.
- Participants will practice using the post, tag, and add special reactions feature in teams.
- Participants will complete a competency assessment of using Microsoft Teams conversation and post feature to show recognition. (Full list of course assessments found HERE)
Goal 2: At the completion of the course, participants will understand the benefits of implementing Microsoft Teams in their department in the areas of project management, team recognition, and collaboration.
Objective: Learners will describe the benefits of using Microsoft Teams and how it can help their team with project management, team recognition, and collaboration.
Activity:
At the conclusion of the course, in a discussion format, the facilitator will ask each participant to share how Microsoft Teams will help with project management, team recognition, and collaboration. (Full list of course assessments found HERE)
