MS Teams: Familiarizing yourself with Teams Usage Guidelines

Summary

This article explains USNH Microsoft Teams usage guidelines.

 

Content

Use of Microsoft Teams and other Office 365 services provided by USNH is governed by the same policies as other university resources.

Your team name may show in USNH Microsoft based directories, and should use the following naming conventions to avoid confusion between similarly named lists or groups:

  • College Campus should be in the Team Name
  • Your team name should be as descriptive and concise as possible
  • Your team name cannot be offensive
  • All teams should be private, unless approved by ET&S

Team Naming Conventions

Recommended Not Recommended
Red Team Senior Project 2020 KSC Senior Project 2020
ECON 650 John Joes Fall 2019 UNH Joes Team
ECON 650 Fall 2019 section 1 PSU ECON 650 section 1
ET&S Exchange Online Migration Project USNH Project Team
  • Always keep at least two owners of a team
  • Owners are expected to maintain team membership
  • Microsoft Teams with no active owners may be deleted or removed by IT
  • Old or unused teams may be removed if they are no longer needed or exist only as archival artefact's
  • Use and content of Microsoft Teams may be monitored by IT administrators and content deemed inappropriate or in violation of USNH policies may be removed
  • IT reserves the right to amend these guidelines
  • Teams created with "test" in the name may be renamed
  • Teams created with person names may be reviewed and renamed
  • ET&S will be contacting owners to review Guest access, and Shared links on an annual basis

 

Further Readings

LinkedIn Learning - Microsoft Teams 

  

Need additional help?

For assistance concerning site creation, content sharing, file synchronization, or other common SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, or Office app activities, we recommend our Microsoft 365 Learning sites:

Learn more about the great tools our Microsoft 365 Learning sites offer!

Visit the Technology Help Desk Support page to locate your local campus contact information or to submit an online technology support request.  For password issues you must call or visit the Help Desk in person.  

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Article ID: 3094
Created
Fri 10/2/20 5:23 PM
Modified
Thu 7/18/24 9:34 AM
Applicable Institution(s):
Keene State College (KSC)
Plymouth State University (PSU)
University of New Hampshire (UNH)
USNH System Office