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Chris Blackstone
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Oct 07, 2019
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Classroom-based, instructor-led Microsoft Teams for large and dispersed companies

We're working to roll out Microsoft Teams across 7k "knowledge workers" in 30+ locations. There has been some discussion about classroom-based, instructor-training, but we're not a point yet where we...
  • Vanessa Pope Aitken's avatar
    Vanessa Pope Aitken
    Oct 10, 2019

    Chris Blackstone highly recommend a Champions network, built from multiple business units, across all regions, and strong visible leadership support. Microsoft did not have the training we needed, so we have a small in-house adoption team. We got them going with the hands-on training and AMA sessions, built the knowledge, developed use cases per area based on their feedback, and then did a full roll out. We had a learning hub for information which links back to the specific apps which plug into Teams. Teams is intuitive for a jump start, and then you need to Level Up - focus on your use cases and how you can help people solve specific issues, or template things. Depending on your demographic, gamification + swag has worked well.

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Karuana_Gatimu_MSFT
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Oct 16, 2019
You can also use our on demand training solution called M365 Learning Pathways. It's essentially a SharePoint template that can be installed in your Office 365 tenant and then customized. My team and I have been working on this for some time. We add more content quarterly for all the services but you can turn off different workloads if you aren't using them. You can add your own content as well. This is a good addition to the excellent advice about having Champions within your organization. Check it out at https://aka.ms/M365LPDocs
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    Sharyn_Mayne
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    Nov 20, 2019

    Karuana_Gatimu_MSFT 

    What about organisations that are not implementing Sharepoint? Is the on demand training solution called M365 Learning Pathways available some other way?

    Thanks

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      Karuana_Gatimu_MSFT
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      Nov 21, 2019

      The content for M365 Learning Pathways is sourced from Support.office.com but its not customizable nor can you add your own playlists.  There's significant advantage to having your own training portal not just for O365 but this solution won't work without SharePoint Online.  Sharyn_Mayne 

       

      I love all the other suggestions here.  The Champions are they key difference in organizations we see who are successful with their rollouts over time.  This month's Community call focused on that.  The deck and the recording are already posted and you might find it helpful here: https://aka.ms/O365ChampionsResources  Enjoy

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