Information Technology Services

Microsoft Teams

What is Microsoft Teams?

Microsoft TeamsMicrosoft Teams is a secure collaboration space for communication, online meetings, and file sharing. Available to all university faculty, staff, and students, Teams includes cloud versions of popular Microsoft applications like Word, Excel and Powerpoint.

Microsoft Teams makes collaboration easy

  • Schedule and attend online meetings and conference sessions.
  • Exchange communication with team members in real-time. 
  • Share files privately and securely.
  • Access Microsoft Office applications in the Cloud.

What you need to know before you start

Next Steps

  1. Install Teams: The Teams application is available for download in Software Center/SCSU Self-Service on University-owned devices, or through Office.com.
  2. Log in to Teams: Use your Office365 login: StarID@minnstate.edu (employees) or StarID@go.minnstate.edu (students)
  3. Creating a Team: Teams must be created using either the native Microsoft Teams desktop application or through the Teams app in the Office 365 online portal.
  4. Team name: All teams will include the requestor’s primary campus prefix, in our case “SCSU-“, and “-Team” as a suffix. For example, a team requested as "Development" will have a final name of “SCSU-Development-Team”.
  5. Owner/members: The requestor will be set as the owner of the team and therefore will be an administrator of the team. Additional members can be added at the time of the request or once the team has been created.
  6. Personalize: Add virtual meeting backgrounds
    1. Download SCSU-themed backgrounds