Using the Teams Mobile Client

Quick reference

• 00:04 When you're away from the office you can stay connected to your Team's activity,
• 00:08 including attending meetings and chats and calls, using them Team's mobile app.
• 00:13 This is a free app that you can install from the Play Store or from Apple.
• 00:17 In this case, we'll install Microsoft Teams from the Google Play Store.
• 00:20 Along with Teams, you may also want to install Outlook, Word, Excel,
• 00:24 PowerPoint and any other Office applications.
• 00:27 And you can even share those documents in Team meetings, allowing you to do
• 00:31 PowerPoint presentations from your phone in a meeting.
• 00:34 Now we'll click Open and this will launch Teams, we'll click Sign in,
• 00:38 and then Log in as a main user.
• 00:43 The first time you log in from your mobile device,
• 00:45 you'll be asked to validate your email address.
• 00:47 This one time process isn't shown here.
• 00:50 Once you do you can click Sign in, and you'll see the main application.
• 00:53 There are a few welcome screens to introduce you to the application.
• 00:57 Once it starts up, we'll just click through those and
• 00:59 we'll wind up looking at the mobile version of Megan's chat feed.
• 01:03 At the bottom of the main screen, you'll see Activity, Chat, Teams,
• 01:06 Calendar, and More.
• 01:08 Of course,
• 01:08 these roughly parallel the same options on the left side of the Team's application.
• 01:13 We don't need to review all of these because they're very similar in many ways
• 01:16 to the Team's app.
• 01:17 But let's take a look at some of the most useful features.
• 01:20 With Chats selected Megan can start a new chat or
• 01:23 click on a chat to continue a conversation.
• 01:27 At the bottom of the screen are the familiar formatting icons
• 01:30 including attaching a file, sending add messages and
• 01:33 unique to a mobile app, sending a voice recording as a message.
• 01:37 Meghan can click on Lydia to see the details from her contact card.
• 01:42 To navigate back to previous screens, you can use the back arrow at the top or
• 01:46 the back arrow at the bottom.
• 01:48 Clicking on Teams, you can see the same Teams and
• 01:51 channels that you can in the applications.
• 01:53 In the Calendar view you can see the history of your events as
• 01:57 well as upcoming calendar meetings.
• 01:59 And you can join meetings from here or start new ones as well.
• 02:03 If you click on More, you'll see the additional features including calls.
• 02:08 From here you can initiate calls with people you've had recent calls with.
• 02:12 Start a new call by clicking the phone icon or listen to voicemail.
• 02:18 Sounds like we're getting a call looks like it's from Irvin.
• 02:21 We'll take that call, and now we're in the familiar Team's call application.
• 02:26 From this main screen you can turn on and
• 02:29 off the video which is very important in low bandwidth or poor Wi-Fi scenarios.
• 02:34 You have mute, and you have the ability to turn on Office speakerphone which
• 02:38 makes it easy for you to share a conversation with others in your area.
• 02:42 As you might expect, you can click on the ellipsis and see more options.
• 02:47 This includes putting a call on hold and
• 02:49 sharing content from your phone during the call.
• 02:53 Finally, if you want to add people to a call,
• 02:55 click on what appears to be the people plus icon in the upper right hand corner.
• 03:00 From here, you would just click add people to invite people to the call.
• 03:04 Here we are back on the main screen.
• 03:06 On the upper left are some options that are important in the mobile app.
• 03:10 These may look familiar from the Team's application,
• 03:13 especially the ability to set your online status.
• 03:16 There are times when you may not want to silence your phone completely but
• 03:19 you don't want to receive calls from Teams.
• 03:21 This is the place to do it by setting Do not disturb.
• 03:24 Let's take a look at notifications because some of those are important to
• 03:27 the mobile app.
• 03:28 I don't receive notifications if you select Only when inactive on desktop.
• 03:33 Then Teams will send the mobile app notifications
• 03:36 from Teams once you've been inactive on your desktop for three minutes or more.
• 03:41 If you want the mobile app to receive all the notifications all the time,
• 03:45 then select Always.
• 03:47 Under Configure notifications, you have some additional options for
• 03:50 toggling on and off various notifications in the Team's app.
• 03:54 All in all the settings under the Notifications in the mobile device
• 03:58 let you tune up how chatty you'd like it to be on your phone.
• 04:01 So as you can see, there's a lot of capability in the Teams mobile client.
• 04:04 So let's review.
• 04:06 The client is free and available for Android and iOS.
• 04:10 You should also consider downloading Excel, PowerPoint and
• 04:13 Word mobile versions as they work really well to help you review files in Teams.
• 04:19 You can participate in Teams activity and
• 04:21 chats while you're away using the mobile client, including looking at channels,
• 04:26 Teams chat, individual chat and online meetings.
• 04:30 You can also make calls using voice and video.
• 04:33 Unique to the mobile app, record your voice and send as a message in chat.
• 04:38 And of course, you can set your online status and
• 04:41 customize your settings to tune-up notifications for the phone.
• 04:45 In the next lesson we'll talk about creating and managing Teams and channels.

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