Audience: Faculty & Staff
Please visit Collaboration in Teams and Channels.
Tabs allow team members to access services on a dedicated section within a channel or in a chat. Tabs act as shortcuts for team members to work directly with tools and data and have conversations about them in the context of the channel or chat. Tabs can be added to help users easily access and manage the data they need or interact with the most. Each channel has a list of tabs across the top. Posts (group chat) and Files (shared documents) are automatically created for each tab. You can add additional tabs to the top of the channel as well. Tabs are where files and information are stored.
Channels are dedicated sections within a team to keep conversations organized by specific topics or projects, whatever works for your team! Channels are where discussions take place. Each team has subsections which are called Channels. A General channel is automatically created for each team and all members/owners have access to this default channel. You can create multiple channels within your Team for separate discussions on topics for subcommittees.
By default, any Team owner or Team member can create a private channel, which is accessible to an assigned subset of users on the Team. The ability to create private channels can be managed by the owner at the Team level. Team owners can turn off or turn on the ability for members to create private channels in the Settings tab for a Team. More info on private channels can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/private-channels. Shared channels can be created to share a channel with users who are not members of the Team. Only Team Owners can create shared channels. More info on shared channels can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/shared-channels.