A Beginner’s Guide to Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams
Ever since students started learning remotely, Microsoft Teams has been a fundamental component of learning. Rather than handing out assignments in person, teachers can now designate homework anytime they desire by COVID-safe means. Students, likewise, can inquire and interact with teachers outside of school hours. While all this is remarkably convenient for all parties, there is one downside: Microsoft Teams is extremely confusing.
As Albert Einstein once said, “The only source of knowledge is experience.” Unfortunately, since both students and teachers have had limited time to adjust to online learning and Teams, nobody can claim they’ve had enough experience to understand it. In other words, if a reader were to skim this article in hopes of grasping a deeper sense of Teams, they would be doomed. Fortunately, not all hope is lost!
Through this considerably short amount of time, users have gained some familiarity with the program. Here is a brief guide on how to use Microsoft Teams for the typical Eric Hamber student.
Downloading Teams on a Computer:
1. To access Microsoft Teams on a browser, go to www.theonion.com
2. Change “theonion” to “microsoft” and add “/microsoft-teams/download-app” to the end of the URL.
3. Click on the Microsoft logo at the top left corner.
4. Scroll to the bottom.
5. Where it says “follow Microsoft,” find and click the Youtube logo.
6. Search “Gordon Ramsay” on Youtube. Click the first result.
7. Listen to Gordon Ramsay’s soothing screams and comforting insults.
Signing In to Teams
1. Once Microsoft Teams has been downloaded, open the application. Accept all terms and conditions without reading thoroughly.
2. Teams will inform the user to sign in with an email and a password. Find a fellow peer’s student ID for this part. Add “@learn.vsb.bc.ca” to the end of the selected peer’s number.
3. For the password, kindly ask the selected peer through bribes and gift cards. If necessary, threaten the selected peer by throwing various produce items at them. This may include (but is not limited to) round projectiles such as eggs, coconuts, and individual peas.
4. Click “Sign in.” At this point, class and club teams should already be established and functional; ready and waiting for you.
Submitting Assignments on Teams
1. Click on the assignments tab. Locate and read the selected assignment’s instructions.
2. Upon deciding that the selected assignment is too difficult to complete, complain about the fact that homework exists.
3. Un-evolve into a chimpanzee, orangutan, or any form of ape you desire to avoid homework for the rest of your life.
4. To gain supporters, persuade your teachers and peers to follow your lead.
5. Escape into the forest with your fellow apes and ooh ooh ahh ahh.
6. Now that you live freely and lawlessly among your own true kind, click on the assignments tab. Find the desired assignment to hand in and attach a chosen file.
7. Don’t forget to click “Turn in!”