Create a team and channels in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams

Lesson 4/12

Learn how to create a new team and channels for that team in this lesson.

Notes

Create a team whenever you have a reason to bring a new or existing group of people together to communicate and/or collaborate. You can create private or public teams (aka private or public Microsoft 365 groups). Private groups require membership management and requests (when applicable) whereas public groups can be discovered by anyone in your organization.

Create a channel whenever you need to separate a specific topic, client, subject, discipline, etc. from the main conversation and contents (General channel) to its own channel. This helps keep the General channel clear for small talk, truly general conversations and contents, etc. while your more focused subject-specific conversations, files, meetings, apps, and more are in the channel you’ve created.

Your channels can be standard (same permissions as team) or private (unique permissions from team). If you choose private channels, they’ll each have their own entire SharePoint site as opposed to sharing one like all of your standard channels will. Private channels are also owned by the channel creator (not necessarily the parent team’s owner).

Additional resources

• Overview of teams and channels in Microsoft Teams – Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs
• First things to know about teams and channels (microsoft.com)
• Create a team from scratch (microsoft.com)
• First things to know about channels in Teams (microsoft.com)
• Private channels in Microsoft Teams – Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs