So then how do you create a public team in Teams? Why should I use a public team in Teams? What's
the difference between a private team and a public team? Anyway you're not going to want to miss this
Microsoft Teams tutorial on creating public teams, and how many times have I used the word teams?
Okay so how do you create a public team in Teams? Well if you're used to creating private
teams then you can follow pretty much the same procedure, what you can do is you can click on
the button at the bottom that says join or create a team, so give that one a click,
now what we can do is we can click on the create a team button just here
and then we're going to click from scratch, so click on from scratch.
So here I have three options - a private team which you might have done before and which the
majority of your teams will be, an org wide team which is a team which everybody can automatically
be assigned to, but what we're interested in is this one here which is the public team. Notice it
says anyone in your organization can join. Now you can see there that we have the major difference,
with a private team you have to invite people individuals to that team
with a public team anybody can join, doesn't necessarily mean that they're
forced to join which is what the org wide one does, so let's click on public team.
First thing we're going to do is give your team a name, now what would be a good name for our public
team? Our team is going to be about office 365 integration so at Computer Tutoring wanting to
get people on board to try and use all of the wonderful tools in Office, so the team name is
going to be Office 365 Innovation, and let's type in a little bit of description of the team, here
so the description is implementing new features of Office 365 within the organization,
there we go and I click on create here at the bottom.
Now of course with the public team you can add members to the team as much as the same way as
you would with the private team, so where it says start typing a name or a group let's just start
typing, I’m going to try betty and there's Betty Boop so I’ll add Betty to the team and click on
add and that's all I’m going to do for the time being, I’m then going to click on close
and I can see that my Office 365 innovation team has been added. So now what we're going
to do is we're going to have a look at somebody who's part of the organization
part of the Computer Tutoring organization but not a member of the 0365 innovation team,
and that's Joshua. Now he's on a web link just here so if I just drag Joshua in across there we
go brilliant so what I’m going to do is I’m going to have my Joshua hat on and I’m going to click
on as a participant or as a member I want to join a team so I’m going to click on join a team here .
Now what I can do is I can search for the team to join it, so I look at different ways I can
join a public team in Microsoft teams, so up in the top right hand corner there if you know the
name of the team I can start typing 0 3 6 5 if I press enter and there we have the Office 365
innovation team, so I can click on join team that way and join that team. Alternatively what
I can do is type in a code as well so let's say for instance I’m going to swap back to
my Simon hat and I’m going to go to the ellipsis on the right hand side here and go up to and
choose manage team I’m going to go to settings just at the top and I’m going to choose team code,
and click on generate here and I can use this to code here fjb well whatever this code is here so
I’m just going to copy that code and I can send that on an email or whatever and if I want to
join that team let us just swap hats back to Joshua and I’m gonna want to join a team so
if I just close off that search, I can click in the box join a team with a code and then I can
paste in this team here and I can click on join team and now Joshua is a member of this office 365
innovation team. I just wanted to talk about a situation that's very common and that is
supposing you've created a public team and you want to change it to a private team or maybe
you've created a private team and you want to make sure everything's working well and then convert it
into a public team, how do you do that? Well what we're going to do is we're going to click on the
three dots to the right hand side ah you could call it the ellipsis just click on that, we're
to go up and choose edit team, and then we're going to choose the privacy section just here and notice
I’ve clicked on this little drop down menu to the right and I can choose public or private to change
my team from a public team to a private team and vice versa. I would just like to add that if you go
to create a team the button at the bottom that says join or create a team and you're not able
to create a team public private or otherwise then you will need to speak to your organization's
administration team so that would be the office 365 admin team so that you can have permissions
to be added to a group that will enable you to add and create teams. So there you go in conclusion if
you want to know what the difference is between a public team and a private team in Microsoft
Teams then a public team is available for anybody to join should they want to
a private team of course you can only be joined by invitation only. So if you've got
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thank you so much for watching. How many times do you think I said teams yeah I think you're right