Spartan 365 - What Types of Teams Can I Create in Spartan Teams?

Question

What are the different types of teams that can be created in Spartan Teams and what are they used for?

Answer

There are four type of Teams that can be created within Microsoft Teams.

1. Staff Team - for Faulty or Staff
2. Student Team - for Faculty
3. Professional Learning Community Team (PLC) - For Faculty or Staff
4. Team for Everyone - for Faculty, Staff, and Students

Staff Team

Staff teams allow school administrators and teachers to easily share information and work together on school-wide initiatives.

With integrated OneNote Staff Notebooks, the staff can publish school policies for the whole team to access or create individual professional development plans. Staff leaders are team owners and add or remove staff members from the team.

Benefits of using staff teams

• Save time by organizing all work in one hub
• Set up staff meetings using the Meetings tab
• Collaborate in conversation stream posts
• Communicate via chat, audio, or video calls
• Make announcements using @mention to the team’s General channel or by pinning important documents as permanent tabs
• Organize virtual or face-to-face meetings
• Work in smaller groups
• Share and organize content
• Use OneNote Staff notebook, which includes a Content Library for all members to read, a Collaboration Space where members can edit collaboratively, and private notebooks for each staff member that only they and the staff leader(s) can see
• Add tabs such as Planner to create task organization
• Add tabs such as Power BI to visualize student data
• Add tabs such as Twitter to administer school accounts

Some Uses of a Staff Team

• Team Manager with private notebooks for each subordinate.
• A Cafe where parts need to be public and parts need to be private.

Student Team

Classes are a team with unique permissions for teachers and students. As owners of the team, teachers assign and review work and create channels and files. Each class team is also linked to its own OneNote Class Notebook.

Within the team, students:

• Collaborate in group work channels
• Share files
• Turn in assignments

Some Uses of a Student Team

• A Professor teaching a class to students
• think of something

Professional Learning Community Team (PLC)

Connect regularly with other educators and continue personal career development through professional learning communities (PLCs) in Microsoft Teams.

Form PLC teams around interest areas, grade levels, or across subjects. New educators can be added at any time, and team members can share files and collaborate in channels, even when they’re not at school. Each PLC team is linked to its own OneNote notebook for further collaboration.

Benefits of using PLC teams

• Save time by organizing all work in one hub
• Collaborate in conversation stream posts
• Communicate via chat, audio, or video calls
• Make announcements using @mention to the team’s General channel
• Organize virtual or face-to-face meetings
• Work in smaller groups
• Share and organize content
• Use OneNote PLC notebook with pre-loaded templates for professional inquiry and development
• Add tabs such as Planner to create task organization
• Add tabs such as Power BI to visualize student data
• Add tabs such as Twitter to follow PLC-specific tweets

Some Uses of a PLC Team

• Faculty Research collaboration
• Staff Research collaboration

Team for Everyone

This is a general team for every other purpose where you would need a Team.

Some Uses of a Team for Everyone

• A collaboration and workspace tool for any type of group.

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