Understanding standard channels
Standard channels were, until recently, the only available way of creating a channel inside a team. Standard channels, as seen in Chapter 1, Microsoft Teams Basics, are subsets of a team and are used to have conversations and share documents on the same topic.
Everything shared in a standard channel becomes available to all the team members. However, this was, for a long time, a major limitation to Microsoft Teams, forcing channel owners to duplicate their teams in order to share private and sensitive information.
A standard channel scenario—John the teacher
John is a teacher responsible for an eighth-grade class and a strong advocate of Microsoft Teams. He wants to build an e-learning platform for his class using Teams. This platform will be publicly available to all the class students and teachers.
John has created a standard channel for each school subject and added all the teachers and the students to the team using their school...
