Request a Microsoft Team

Request a Team for your Department

All Geneseo faculty, staff, and students are eligible to request a new team for your department or group. Complete this form. Here are some suggestions as you begin to use your team:

  1. If your group is private, invite people to your team. You can also invite non-Geneseo email addresses (they will get an email invitation). If you anticipate a large membership, you can share a join code via email to encourage people to join your team.

  2. Identify additional owners of the team to share administrative duties. Owners will also receive notices about the team, such as expiration and deletion warnings should the team become inactive.

  3. Create some channels. We recommend starting with a few, such as General, Water-Cooler, Functional Groups, project teams.

  4. Set up your notifications. Microsoft has a good guide on all the notifications settings. It's also a good idea to talk with your team about what the expectations are around teams notifications.