Adding a Channel to a Team

Channels are dedicated sections within a team to keep conversations organized by specific topics, projects, disciplines, etc.

Channels can be set up in 2 ways.
Standard - Accessible to everyone on the team
Private - Only accessible to a specific group of people within the team

Setting up a Channel

1. Open up the Teams application (either Desktop or Web)
   
   
2. Find your Team to add a channel to
   
   
   
3. Click on the and select Add channel
   
   
   
4. The Create channel screen will be shown
   
   
   1. Enter a channel name
   2. Enter a description
   3. Select the Privacy setting (as described above).  Note that this cannot be changed once the channel has been created.
   4. If you want this channel to automatically to appear in the team list, tick this box.  You can have up to 10 channels appearing at anyone time.
      
      
5. If you have made the channel as Private, you will be shown this screen.
   You can start to add members to the channel, or skip and add then later.
   Note: members have to be added to the Team to be able to added to a channel.
   
6. You channel has now been set up