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1300 886 190
Level 1 Microsoft 1 day

Microsoft Teams Essentials Course

9:00am – 4:00pm Six capitals or live online Prerequisite: None

Microsoft Teams Essentials at a glance.

Duration
1 day, 9:00am – 4:00pm
Price
$420 per person, ex GST — purchase orders welcome
Delivery
In person, or live online with a facilitator
Where
Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney — or online
Prerequisite
None
Class size
Small — everyone practises out loud more than once
You take away
A printed workbook, exercise files, and your own notes
In-house
Available for teams of four or more, at your office or ours

What you'll learn.

  • Chat, calls and the meeting basics
  • Teams and channels — what goes where
  • Where files actually live
  • Notifications you can live with

Course overview.

Chat, calls, meetings, channels and where files really live.

The 1 day works through 13 modules and 138 individual topics, from Getting started to Team administration. Each module is taught then practised — you do the thing rather than watch it done — on our exercise files, and on your own where you are able to bring them.

Groups are kept small enough that everyone gets hands on the keyboard, and the facilitator is in the room the whole time rather than dropping in. You leave with the workbook, the exercise files and notes in your own words.

Full course outline.

Every module we cover, and the topics inside each one. This is the same outline as the downloadable PDF — expand a module to see what sits under it.

  • 13 modules
  • 138 topics
  • 1 day in the room
  • 1Getting started5 topics
    • What Microsoft Teams does
    • Reaching the web version of Teams
    • Signing in to the Teams mobile app
    • Launching the Teams desktop client
    • How chat and teams fit together
  • 2One-to-one and group chats26 topics
    • Why Teams suits internal communication and collaboration
    • Starting a new chat in Teams
    • Returning to an existing private chat
    • Multiple lines in a chat: method 1
    • Multiple lines in a chat: method 2
    • Setting up a private chat
    • Setting up a group chat
    • Giving a group chat a name
    • Turning a private chat into a group chat
    • Bringing more people into a group chat
    • Stepping out of a group chat
    • Files shared in a chat
    • Opening the file from the chat
    • Finding that chat file in OneDrive
    • Flagging urgent work to colleagues
    • Marking a message Standard
    • Marking a message Important
    • Marking a message Urgent
    • Marking chats as favourites
    • Hiding a chat
    • Muting a chat
    • What the status indicator shows
    • Setting your status indicator and message
    • Saving a message for later
    • Finding a saved message
    • Removing a message from saved
  • 3Calling from a chat3 topics
    • Asynchronous versus synchronous communication
    • Starting video and audio calls in Teams
    • Sharing your screen
  • 4Setting up a team9 topics
    • Communicating and collaborating inside a team
    • Private versus public teams
    • Building a private team
    • Adding team members
    • The role of team owners
    • Points to note about members
    • Adding channels to your team
    • A closer look at channels
    • Tabs in a channel
  • 5Inside Teams channels16 topics
    • How channels are used in Teams
    • Posting in a channel
    • Announcement and important posts
    • Editing or deleting a message
    • Replying in a conversation thread
    • Using mentions (@)
    • Mentioning a person
    • Mentioning a channel
    • Mentioning a team
    • Liking or reacting to a message
    • The wider set of reactions
    • Marking a post as unread
    • Organising your channels
    • Adding a channel or chat to favourites
    • Showing and hiding channels
    • Emailing a Teams channel
  • 6Getting around Teams10 topics
    • Copying a link to a team
    • Copying a link to a channel
    • Reordering and hiding teams
    • Shortcut keys
    • Your personal settings
    • The activity feed
    • Filtering activity
    • How notifications behave by default
    • Notification settings per channel
    • Your own notification settings
  • 7Files in Teams9 topics
    • The Files app in Teams
    • Working on files together
    • How Microsoft Teams stores files
    • Handling files inside a team
    • Creating a new document inside a team
    • Uploading an existing file to a channel
    • Where these files actually live
    • Pinning a file as a tab
    • Moving files between OneDrive, Teams and SharePoint libraries
  • 8Running meetings10 topics
    • Scheduling meetings in a channel
    • Joining from an Outlook invitation
    • Managing scheduled events
    • Joining a meeting inside Teams
    • Taking part in a meeting
    • Sharing your screen
    • Chatting during a meeting
    • Kicking off an ad hoc channel meeting
    • Choosing your meeting options
    • Other meeting features
  • 9Tasks in Teams12 topics
    • Planner as part of Teams
    • Inside the Planner hub
    • Starting a new plan
    • Adding tasks in Planner
    • Filling out task cards with more detail
    • Marking tasks complete
    • Sorting tasks into buckets
    • The views available in Planner
    • Day-to-day use of Planner in Teams
    • Cards in place of messages or email
    • Plans inside a team channel
    • Team tasks that sit outside a project
  • 10Capturing knowledge for reuse13 topics
    • Capturing what you need to remember
    • Making sense of the Wiki
    • Working together in the Wiki app
    • What OneNote is for
    • Notebooks, sections and pages
    • The OneNote apps
    • Opening OneNote from Teams
    • Around the OneNote Online interface
    • Adding sections and pages
    • Typing and editing text
    • Adding images in OneNote
    • OneNote notebooks attached to a team
    • Searching the knowledge you have captured
  • 11Adding apps4 topics
    • Apps that sit in a tab
    • Opening or creating files from Teams
    • Apps used in messages
    • Bringing in connector apps
  • 12The Approvals app7 topics
    • Finding your way around the Approvals app
    • Raising a basic approval request
    • Responding to a request
    • Setting custom responses in Approvals
    • Using templates in Approvals
    • Starting an approval from a Teams chat
    • Adding an approval in a Teams channel
  • 13Team administration14 topics
    • Managing a team
    • Looking after team members
    • Bringing guests into Teams
    • Team settings
    • The team picture
    • What members are allowed to do
    • What guests are allowed to do
    • Controlling @mention settings
    • The fun extras
    • The team code
    • Archiving a team
    • Restoring an archived team
    • Putting Teams to work
    • Course recap

Who it is for.

Anybody who uses Teams and has never been shown it properly. No prerequisite and no assumed background beyond ordinary computer confidence.

How it runs.

One day, roughly 9am to 4pm, with a facilitator in the room the whole time. You get a workstation each with the software installed, in a CBD training room in any of the six capitals, or live online on your own computer.

Dates

Upcoming Dates

The next scheduled Microsoft Teams Essentials dates, soonest first. If none of these work, tell us the city and we will let you know when the next block is released.

LevelDateLocationDeliveryPrice
Teams EssentialsWed 2 Sep 26Remote WestOnline$420Book
Teams EssentialsWed 2 Sep 26PerthIn person$420Book
Teams EssentialsFri 4 Sep 26CanberraIn person$420Book
Teams EssentialsFri 4 Sep 26Remote EastOnline$420Book
Teams EssentialsThu 17 Sep 26Remote EastOnline$420Book
Teams EssentialsThu 17 Sep 26SydneyIn person$420Book
Teams EssentialsThu 17 Sep 26Remote EastOnline$420Book
Teams EssentialsThu 24 Sep 26Remote EastOnline$420Book
Teams EssentialsThu 24 Sep 26MelbourneIn person$420Book
Teams EssentialsMon 5 Oct 26Remote EastOnline$420Book
Teams EssentialsMon 5 Oct 26MelbourneIn person$420Book
Teams EssentialsThu 8 Oct 26Remote EastOnline$420Book
Teams EssentialsThu 8 Oct 26CanberraIn person$420Book
Teams EssentialsFri 9 Oct 26Remote EastOnline$420Book
Teams EssentialsFri 9 Oct 26AdelaideIn person$420Book
Teams EssentialsThu 15 Oct 26Remote WestOnline$420Book
Teams EssentialsThu 15 Oct 26PerthIn person$420Book
Teams EssentialsFri 16 Oct 26MelbourneIn person$420Book
Teams EssentialsFri 16 Oct 26Remote EastOnline$420Book
Teams EssentialsMon 19 Oct 26Remote EastOnline$420Book
Teams EssentialsMon 19 Oct 26SydneyIn person$420Book
Teams EssentialsTue 27 Oct 26Remote WestOnline$420Book
Teams EssentialsTue 27 Oct 26PerthIn person$420Book
Teams EssentialsTue 27 Oct 26Remote EastOnline$420Book
Teams EssentialsTue 27 Oct 26SydneyIn person$420Book
Teams EssentialsThu 5 Nov 26MelbourneIn person$420Book
Teams EssentialsFri 6 Nov 26BrisbaneIn person$420Book
Teams EssentialsFri 6 Nov 26CanberraIn person$420Book
Teams EssentialsWed 18 Nov 26MelbourneIn person$420Book
Teams EssentialsWed 18 Nov 26AdelaideIn person$420Book
Teams EssentialsThu 19 Nov 26SydneyIn person$420Book
Teams EssentialsFri 20 Nov 26BrisbaneIn person$420Book
Teams EssentialsFri 27 Nov 26SydneyIn person$420Book
Teams EssentialsThu 3 Dec 26MelbourneIn person$420Book
Teams EssentialsFri 4 Dec 26CanberraIn person$420Book
Teams EssentialsFri 11 Dec 26AdelaideIn person$420Book
Teams EssentialsWed 16 Dec 26MelbourneIn person$420Book
Teams EssentialsThu 17 Dec 26Remote WestOnline$420Book
Teams EssentialsThu 17 Dec 26PerthIn person$420Sold out
Teams EssentialsTue 22 Dec 26SydneyIn person$420Book

By city

Microsoft Teams Essentials in your city

Venue, transport and the dates running there.

Sydney training Melbourne training Brisbane training Perth training Adelaide training Canberra training Live online
Reviews

What people said about Microsoft Teams Essentials

4.62
from 604 reviews collected by Nexacu

Wizard courses run on the shared Nexacu schedule, so these are reviews of this course from people who sat it. Collected by Nexacu after the course and published as written.

As a fairly intermediate user of MS Teams, the most valuable parts to me were the creation of teams, channels, approvals and tasks. Anu was incredible at walking us through every step and letting us explore the processes ourselves with her very knowledgeable guidance.

Laura
24 July 2026

Learning how Teams link to other applications

Diana
24 July 2026

Showed all aspects of teams and how the link to other Microsoft systems

Simone
24 July 2026

the trainer provided support throughout the whole course and made it engaging

Alice
27 July 2026

I think I knew more about teams that I realised going into this course. The course was great but I feel as though I knew most of the content (but that is on me not the instructor or course content)

Megan
27 July 2026

Clearly explanations

Shireece
20 August 2026

Source: nexacu.com.au, read 27 August 2026. How feedback is collected.

Questions

Questions People Ask About This Course

Anything not answered here, call 1300 886 190 and ask a person.

Ask a question
How long is the Microsoft Teams Essentials course?
It runs for 1 day, 9:00am – 4:00pm, with a facilitator in the room the whole time. Nothing is pre-recorded and there is no platform to log into afterwards.
How much does Microsoft Teams Essentials cost?
$420 per person, excluding GST. That covers the course, the workbook and exercise files and the room. If four or more people from one organisation need it, an in-house day usually works out cheaper — tell us the numbers and we will price both.
Do I need any experience before this course?
No prerequisite. The day assumes ordinary computer confidence and nothing more.
Can I do Microsoft Teams Essentials online instead of in a classroom?
Yes. Every date marked “Live online” runs over video with the same facilitator and the same practice, in breakout groups rather than a room. You use the software on your own machine, so you leave with it set up the way you actually work.
Which cities do you run Microsoft Teams Essentials in?
Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, plus live online. Every venue is a CBD training room with a workstation for each person. If your city and date are not paired on the schedule above, ask — dates are released in blocks.
Which Teams level should I book?
Work from what people already do rather than how long they have used it. The full course outline above shows exactly what this course covers, and the Microsoft Teams page lists every level in order. Still unsure? Call 1300 886 190 and describe a normal Tuesday.

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