While both Chat and Conversations in Microsoft Teams allow you to communicate with others, they serve different purposes and behave differently depending on context.

This article will provide information on using Microsoft Teams for a Student. Teams is available to both faculty and students. Students can create their own Team however, if enrolled in a course where the instructor has set up a course-based MS Team, students should follow the instructions provided by the instructor.

This article discusses creating persistent meeting links for Teams Meetings.

Starting July 1st, 2025 USNH has ended its institutional support of Zoom.  This article reviews where to go for Zoom and further support post our transition to Microsoft Teams Meetings as our primary video conferencing software.

The following are frequently asked questions related to the Zoom to Microsoft Teams transition.

Getting Started with the Meeting Owl

This article will outline the differences between Zoom, Microsoft Teams Webinars and Microsoft Teams Town Halls

This article is about joining a Teams meeting or webinar through a browser for non-USNH employees

This article covers the default Teams Meetings settings.

This article will help you use the lobby feature in Teams meetings. In Teams meetings, the meeting lobby keeps participants from joining a meeting until they’re admitted by an organizer, co-organizer, or presenter. When people are in the lobby, organizers, co-organizers, and presenters are notified and can choose when to admit them to the meeting.

This article explains how Faculty and Staff can request licenses for additional Microsoft 365 Apps such as CoPilot, Teams Premium, and Professional/Premium versions of Visio, Power BI, and Project Online. Some licenses include annual charges paid by the user's department. These licenses are available for active USNH Faculty and Staff only.

This article will walk the user through how to share a Whiteboard in Teams Meetings and further resources on the whiteboard.

This article reviews how to create breakout rooms and assign participants to those rooms in Teams Meetings.

This article gives you best practices on scheduling a meeting in Teams Meetings, starting a meeting, things to do before the meeting, best practices for hosting a meeting, and best practices using your camera.

This article describes the different resources of Microsoft Teams specific to their chat feature. It goes over how to start a one-on-one private chat as well as a group chat with other collaborators as well as how to name the group chat if applicable. It also addresses how to see the different collaborators involved in a conversation and how to add additional collaborators.