Below is the landing page in Teams that displays all of the 'Teams' you are a member of. In the example here, there is one team called 'Willow Primary Academy'. Clicking on this Team will take you to the default home page for that Team, which can contain posts, announcements, etc.

To access your files and school documents, you will need to click on the tab for 'Files'. You will see a page similar to this:

In more detail, here are some of the main features you will use in the Team:

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This menu is customizable and can be changed by you, also changes that you make are persistent and won’t be seen by others. You can remove any icon you don’t want by right-clicking and then selecting Unpin, or move icons around if you click and hold an icon then drag it to the desired location.

Clicking on Teams on the left-sidebar lists teams where you are a member. This then allows you to open the "team" you're a member of and see all the posts/files & any other parts that are added to the tab. Once in the Team you have many options to go through, however the most important will most likely be the "posts", "files" or "Calendar" tabs.

One of the main benefits of Teams is that you no longer need to send files around to team members by email. Instead, upload the file to the Files tab in Teams. Any file you upload to Teams is automatically made available to other team members, no special permissions needed. Multiple people can edit the file at the same time; this feature is called co-editing. When more than one person is editing the file, you will see where they are editing and what they’re doing. There is also a feature that shows the last amendments made by another member. 

You can send a link to the file simply by right-clicking on the file name and selecting Copy link. If a colleague makes changes you wish they hadn’t, you can revert to a previous version using version history. Just open the document and click File, Info, Version History. 

If you then would like to share files externally please refer to our other solution article on sharing to external users: Sharing Documents Externally | Knowledge Base | SAND IT Service (sandmat.uk)