From the course: Microsoft Teams: Organizing Your Personal Life

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- [Instructor] You can access Microsoft Teams with the web app, desktop app, or the mobile app. To access the web app from any modern browser, go to aka.ms/teamspersonal. It's a short URL for teams.live.com. You can also use that link as well. If you've already created a Microsoft Teams Personal account, you can log in with the email address or the mobile phone number that you set up as your username, and then your password, of course. If you need to create an account, you'll go ahead and select, Create one. Now, as I mentioned, you can set your account up to be using a personal email address. That could be something like a Google, Yahoo, AOL, or Outlook.com email address. You can also use a mobile phone number and log in with that. Part of the process when you're setting up your account, though, is that in addition to that email address, it is going to ask you for an alias, a way for you to be able to recover your account if for some reason you're not able to log in. So that might be a mobile phone number or another email address. It is going to take you through a verification process of those accounts or those phone numbers that you're able to access, where it's going to have you access a text message or an email to get a code and enter that in. You'll also have to indicate the region and part of the world that you're going to be using this account from as well as your birth date. All right, I already have an account created, and I created it with a phone number. So I'm going to go ahead and put that in so we can get logged into this web app. Next, I'll select Next. It's asking me for the password. I'll go ahead and get that inputted. If you need to see the password to make sure that you typed it correctly, you can select the eye here. If you want to stay signed in, that just means less times that you have to log into your account, you can check the box to keep me signed in. I'm going to go ahead and leave that unchecked, and I'm going to select sign in. It's now logging me into the web app for Microsoft Teams Personal. And here it is. It's prompting if I'd like to turn on desktop notifications. For now, I'm going to say Dismiss to that. Over on the left, this is called the rail. This is the main navigation for this app. If you'd like to work with the desktop app that I mentioned to you, if you go to the bottom of this rail, you are able to download the desktop app, launch it, and then login with the same credentials that you set up to access the web app. Now, you can create your account from any of these Microsoft Teams applications. I do want to note though, if you are working for an organization and you're using a business email address to log into Microsoft Teams to use it for business use, your organization may have disabled you being able to work in the Teams desktop app side-by-side for both your personal and your business account. I'd also like to note that the web app and the desktop app for Teams Personal doesn't have the full feature functionality that the mobile app does at the time of me recording this course. For that reason, this course is going to focus on working with the mobile app, and you'll see me demonstrating this from my Apple iPad. All right, speaking of mobile apps, let's go ahead and take a look at how you can download and access the Teams app. We're going to switch over to the iPad now. Okay, to access the Teams app, we need to go to the App Store, and go ahead and tap Search at the bottom, and we are going to search for Microsoft Teams. Press Search, and here it is in the upper-right corner. Now, if this had not already been downloaded and installed on this device, instead of it saying Open, we would see the cloud symbol with the arrow saying that we can tap that icon to download and install this application. Since I already have it installed on this device and I'm already logged in, I can simply select Open from here and it's going to take me directly to that app. And here is the mobile app. For this application, the main navigation, the rail, as I referred to it in the web app, is going to be at the bottom, so that's where we're going to be working within this area. Now, if you've downloaded this and you've not set up an account yet for Microsoft Teams Personal, the process is going to be very similar to what I described for the web app. You will need to set it up with either a mobile phone number or an email address, set up an alias for you to be able to recover that account if you need to, as well as some personal identifying information. And that's how you can access Microsoft Teams from any device.

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