Using Teams for employee availability dashboard

So I'll give you my general rundown of what I created to suit my needs:

****disclaimer: this is all self taught and university of google knowledge. I am by no means an expert in any of this and this took me quite a while to work through. 

1 - Create a group in outlook. (you don't have to add users until you're ready) 

2 - Once created go to the top of the group header in your outlook inbox. Click the three dots and go to "Site" with the SharePoint icon. 

3 - From the SharePoint site in the bottom right hand corner a teams banner will pop up asking if you want to add Teams. Go through the steps and you'll add a shortcut to all folders in the SharePoint page. 

4 - From the General tab in the Teams group you will see a Lists tab at the top of the page. It will allow you to create one from scratch or upload one using Excel. (if you don't see a Lists tab you may have to go to the + to add it. (((READ NEXT STEP BEFORE YOU CREATE A LIST))))

5 - If you have an excel sheet with users on it already with their name and e-mail address, that is the best place to start. To import a user list from an excel sheet the information you are importing must be inside a table in the spreadsheet. (I would honestly play around with the Lists application a little bit before you actually create one from the Teams group. It took me a lot of getting used to and learning what types of columns could do what. If you do have a user list in excel I would import it from the lists application or web browser outside of Teams first to use it as practice.) 

When importing into Lists - it will ask you what type of column each column is. 

First column with Users name will be a Title and the 2nd column with the e-mail address will be a person or group. Change the other columns to "Do not import." You can add other columns with information once you get the initial name and e-mail address imported. 

6 - Once you have the list up and running and have information that you want to include set up... I can include further steps depending on how you want the list to function for users.