Microsoft 365 Student FAQ

Teams can be accessed via the web here. Using it regularly is best done from the app however, which can be downloaded to your local device. Login either way once you have registered for your free Microsoft Office 365 account.

TRU currently plans for students to be able to create Teams for group collaboration and other uses. An app is currently being developed to help with this and ensure that the Teams are setup correctly. Keep an eye out for more information.

Click on your own avatar icon on the top right and select the cog (settings) and change the theme from there. From here you can change the view as well as the theme. 

If your view is set to List and not Grid under the Teams tab, you can right click on a channel and select “Pin” to move it to the top of the “Your Teams” section.

Just to the left of the search button, above the chat window is the “New Chat” button

Create a new chat and add all the people you want. Otherwise you can enter an existing chat and click the “Add People” button in the upper right corner of the chat window next to Share Screen and Popup Chat Window

Thanks to Microsoft 365 using email on the web is easier than ever, just go to Outlook Webmail and sign in with your credentials.

We recommend using OneDrive or Teams for sharing files whenever possible. Using one of these apps reduces the number of copies of the file floating around in everyone’s mailboxes, and is much more secure. However, if an attachment must be sent from your Microsoft 365 mailbox, then attachment sizes up to 150mb are possible.

All users get 1 Terabyte (TB) of storage in their OneDrive folder.

Yes, OneDrive allows you to share files and folders with staff and students. You can also share files with external contacts but they require a OneDrive account to receive the file.
For a tutorial on how to share checkout this youtube video

Open up OneDrive in your browser and find the desired file. Right click on the 3 dots by the file and select ‘Share’. A new box will open and show people who you are currently sharing the document with.

Yes you can. This is known as "co-authoring" a document in Microsoft terms. Simply share the file with someone else (through OneDrive's sharing options or through Teams) and once you both have it open you can edit and see each other's edits in real time.
For more information on this see Microsoft's info here
Or a great youtube video on the subject here

Microsoft Planner is a task tracker that can be used for managing simple projects. It can used on its own, and integrated with Teams. Planner on the web can be found here. Planner allows teams to create, assign, and organize work visually. It facilitates teamwork, shows progress visibility, and task coordination. Microsoft Planner involves creating a plan that is equivalent to starting a project made up of tasks organized into buckets or categories. You can assign each task a label, a deadline, and a team member.

Plans are added to a specific channel. To do so, select the channel you want to add a plan to (note you must have the appropriate priviledges to do so within the Team). Then at the top of the page select the "+" icon (likely next to the "Post" and "Files" tabs). From there select the Planner app. It should now appears as a tab at the top of the page.

You can copy a plan, see the link for how to do so.

You can't print plans or tasks from Planner currently.

Yes, a Team or Channel can have more than plan. Just add another planner task and start planning!