After a year of trying to get some Teams adoption, the work-from-home order has pushed Teams to the forefront of our business. Adoption has gone incredibly well and people seem to be excited about it now.

I want to keep that excitement ramped up and thought maybe demoing some Apps might help.

Can anyone recommend any Teams apps (free or paid) that they actually leverage on a daily basis? We’re looking to boost usage, productivity and user adoption, to take our organization’s Teams usage to a power user level in the next 6 months to a year. Thanks.

Hi guys, I'm in a bit of a pickle.

I'm part of a student organization in my university and basically the IT guy for the whole thing, I run the site and so on.

There's a team of 10 of us that actually organizes and manages all the events and stuff and lately I've been thinking that using some sort of organization app, like I do with my usual school-related tasks, could really help us and ease the burden of keeping track of what everyone is doing and has been done.

So far I thought that google calendar could just do the trick, but I found out you can't create group tasks and assign them to people and that notification only work if directly activated by everyone.

I looked a bit into Microsoft's ToDo and ToDoist since I found out they have two-way syncing with google calendar but I'm a bit dubious. So here I am asking you guys what would best suit the team's needs.

Ideally the app would have all of the following requirements:

• Be available both on iphone and android

• Create "Projects" which themselves are comprized of multiple steps and deadlines

• Assign specific "Projects" to a specific person that can in turn assign tasks to other people

• Let a team leader check on all tasks and projects

• Have different levels of sharing, so that certain events can be viewed by the general public and other only by the team. This is so we can create events and keep our associates updated on the events we are planning.

• Be visualized at a glance in a nice calendar view (just like google calendar).

Basically I'm looking with a calendar app with the option of marking stuff as done and assigning it to someone.

I manage a team of engineers. I want to try to organize and bring everyone together, have everything streamlined and give them as much control over their notes and questions as possible and provide an interactive experience for all of them.

There are so many apps that are integrated within teams. Does anyone have any suggestions for apps that I could integrate within my team that could provide a streamlined experience for trainings, notes, providing an interactive experience where they can build on notes etc?

I guess what I'm asking is, what apps could I utilize to help grow my team including things like organization etc.

I've not dabbled a ton into apps since they mostly have seen useless, however - I'd love something to make things more efficient within teams. Be it styling changes or disabling unused elements of teams. Any recommendations? Even if outside the list, any 'apps' within teams you've come to love?

Hey all IT Manager here just want to talk about what people/company are using MS Teams for besides calls/meetings/chats/teams. Is anyone using apps if so please tell!!!

-Victor

My co-workers and I are all remote. If we weren't, we'd probably just use a white board! But, we are and so I'm trying to find a tool that will help us communicate more effectively and efficiently with tasks/questions.

We use Google chats and have regular meetings. The chats were helpful in the beginning, and we can assign someone a task directly in the chat that gets added to their calendar. It was great when we started it, but we have SO many chats that things get missed and buried. Meeting minutes capture things in docs, but once you close the doc it's "out of sight, out of mind."

Here's what happens:

1. A and B have meetings with client regularly. Client provides a lot of additional tasks.

2. A and B tell C and D about those tasks in meetings and chats.

3. C and D work on tasks, but have questions, so they chat back to A and B to take back to the client.

Thus, it's a big cycle of questions and tasks going back and forth, daily, and things are getting lost or missed.

I want a tool where we can all access, everyone can write the questions they have in one place, write the tasks in one place, get things checked off, nothing gets missed, etc. It seems like a simple solution. Just use a spreadsheet. If you knew how many spreadsheets we have, you'd know why I don't want to. We're buried in them.

So, what can we do? Am I just wishing for some magical app/tool that tracks our communication and interactions, but it doesn't exist? I really need to tighten up how we're working because it's getting very chaotic.

Hello! I work in corporate Learning & Development (employee training).

I know that virtual training can suck — especially when it’s just someone talking “at” you for an hour or more — so I try and ensure any virtual trainings are highly interactive.

Teams is newer to me, at least in the way I’m hoping to use it. I’m particularly interested in any tools that allow me to create a virtual whiteboard, Q&A (instead of chat), breakouts/unique breakout features, and anything else that makes the session interactive.

My company has most add-ons/apps locked down (including the built in Q&A feature), but they’re willing to admin install any apps for me as needed. I want to go to IT with a list of interactive Teams apps to approve for me (so that I’m not peppering them to try a ton of apps). Do you have any suggested apps I try out?

Free or “most bang for your buck” is ideal. Thanks in advance!

P.S. I am aware of the new meeting type options/webinar registration features, but I’m more so interested in the in-session features.

Any recommended teams Apps to track projects and task? I am looking at monday_com but if we want to fully add it, it can have a cost. To_do does not work on private channels and we did use some sort of task tracker but I am looking for something easier to work with.

Thanks in advance

Hi guys and gals

Years ago I used to use "Wunderlist" which in short used to let me have different categories on the left, add a task on the right and satisfyingly tick it off

I hate the "to do" from microsoft as it adds my 100's of flagged emails

Does anyone know of a teams app /website that I can pin that Is a good easy to use to do list?

(currently gone back to paper scraps!)

I need an efficient way to push individual tasks to each member of my team. I am currently using emails and its messy. I need a way to see what's been completed and I way to send it to them.

This is for quality and regulatory work so it's more like what specific cleaning and maintenance checks need to be done

We all work in different sites and hours so communication can be difficult

I’ve used teamsnap and GameChanger. What do you think the best team communication platform is? I’d like it to have scheduling and messaging. Let me know what you think and why please!

My team and I are looking for a Teams App that will let us track multiple projects and their tasks in one calendar. We've used Teams for a few weeks and like it, but think it's time to find an app to help us track all of our tasks and projects, rather than just the channel we are in.

If anything like that exists, I'd appreciate if anyone could point me to the right app!

Hi all,

My company typically does not utilize the built in teams apps for whatever reason. However im curious if there are other ways/platforms to tie in the built in Teams apps.

My users have requested specifically the github and Incoming Webhook App. I guess they’re supposed to tie into teams channels by giving real time updates when certain actions/functions occur.

Thanks in advance!