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You can use Slack, a communication platform, to collaborate with students and faculty online. The information below shows you how to work with your Slack workspace and team.
A Slack workspace is made up of channels where team members can communicate and work together. Keep reading to learn about four key features of Slack.
Understanding the Slack Workspace
- Organized Conversations
- Send messages and share files in channels.
- You may be a member of channels for teams, projects, and more.
- You can make channels private for conversations so they are not open to all members.
- Use shared channels to collaborate with an organization outside your own.
- Searchable History
- You can search your team's conversation history in Slack to find relevant messages, files, channels, and people. With the search history, information you share can become institutional knowledge.
- Connected Apps
- Add apps to your workspace to connect services or tools to Slack that you already use.
- With many apps, you can do your work without ever leaving your Slack workspace.
- Find thousands of apps to help you stay productive, organized, and efficient in the Slack App Directory.
- Slack Calls
- You can start a voice or video call with any other members of your workspace right from Slack.
- Share your screen to show your teammates exactly what you see on your computer–you can even draw on your screen while you are sharing.
Understanding Teams in Slack
- Workspace Owners create the workspace and set permissions.
- Workspace Admins are assigned by Workspace Owners to help manage the team.
- Members can send messages and files to any team members in their workspace.
- Guests can send messages and files in specific channels.
Additional Support
- Slack Demo (help article)
- What is Slack (help article)
Adapted from Slack