Create a team and a channel

- [Instructor] Here in Microsoft Teams, the team is our basic organizational unit, a group of people who work together. We only have one team, it's our organization-wide team and you note that from the icon in the upper right-hand corner. We're going to begin building out our team's collection to create more teams that can work together. And this is simply a reflection of the work that's already going on in our organization. We need to create a team for our Human Resources Department. I'm going to click where it says Create or Join Team. I'm not joining the team, I'm creating a new one. Create Team. And one choice is to take an existing Office 365 group that's already collaborating and make them a team. That's not what we're going to do this time, we're going to build the teams from scratch. There are three types of teams, private teams where people need permission to join, public teams where anyone can join, and an organization-wide team that everyone is automatically joined to. So if someone new joins our organization, they're automatically added to any org-wide team. I'm going to create a private team, and the team is going to be called Team HR. And this is the Human Resources Team with staff from the HR Department. That's it. Click Create, and a private team is now being created. Little nice work icon. I can start adding people to this team if I wish. I'm going to add Griffin Snow to this team and perhaps some other people later. Note that within this team, as with the KinetEco team that already existed, there is already one channel, and that channel is called General. Everyone who is a member of this team is automatically then going to be added to this General channel, which is where we would have general conversation. Team HR has a number of different projects though, and each of those projects, each of those efforts, could be a channel of its own. So I'm going to add a channel to Team HR. I'm in Team HR and I'm clicking on the More Options button. Choose Add Channel. And the channel name that I'm going to add is Employee Self-Service. This is a project that we have. So this is for the Employee Self-Service Project. And we have two levels of privacy here. Is this accessible to everyone on the team? Can everyone who is a member of Team HR participate in this channel or is there a specific group of people within the team? And anyone on the team can, everyone on Team HR has access, has the ability to be able to view information, view documents and so on in the Employee Self-Service Channel. If I want to automatically show this channel in every single person's channel list, I can do it just like that. This is turned off by default right now, but I could choose to say anyone can see this, but I'm not going to, this is an internal channel for Team HR, which is a private group, which is why that checkbox was not enabled. And there we go. Employee Self-Service, and General both open to every member of the team within Team HR. This is how you create a team, and this is how you create a channel within a team.