Students as Guests MS Teams Student Experience

Students as Guests MS Teams Student Experience

What is the student experience?

What the guest experience is like?

Applies to:

Microsoft Teams

When a guest is invited to join a team, they receive a welcome email message. This message includes some information about the team and what to expect now that they're a member. The guest must accept the invitation by selecting Open Microsoft Teams in the email message before they can access the team and its channels.

All team members see a message in the channel thread announcing that the team owner has added a guest and providing the guest's name. Everyone on the team can identify easily who is a guest. As shown in the following screenshot of a sample team, a banner indicates "This team has guests" and a (Guest) label appears next to each guest's name.

Comparison of team member and guest capabilities

The following table compares the Teams functionality available for an organization's team members and its guests.

TABLE 1
Capability in Teams	Teams user in the organization	Guest user
Create a channel Team owners control this setting.	✓	✓
Participate in a private chat	✓	✓
Participate in a channel conversation	✓	✓
Post, delete, and edit messages	✓	✓
Share a channel file	✓	✓
Share a chat file	✓
Add apps (tabs, bots, or connectors)	✓
Create meetings or access schedules	✓
Access OneDrive for Business storage	✓
Create tenant-wide and teams/channels guest access policies	✓
Invite a user outside the Office 365 tenant's domain Team owners control this setting.	✓
Create a team	✓
Discover and join a public team	✓
View organization chart	✓
Use inline translation	✓
Become team owner	✓

Any questions? Contact the ACC IT Helpdesk at 303-797-5900 or email helpdesk@arapahoe.edu for further assistance.

Updated By

Karna Johnson

Last Updated

Mar 9, 2022, 12:08 PM

Created By

Student Technicians

Created At

Apr 3, 2020, 9:36 AM