Orientation Guide: Building A Wellbeing Economy
Orientation Guide: Building A Wellbeing Economy
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Each week you should reserve 30-60 minutes to review the preparation
materials (readings, podcasts, pre-recorded videos) to help you prepare
for the session.
In the live sessions, you’ll discuss this material and learn more through
facilitated discussions with guest presenters, all experts in their topics.
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Lesson Structure
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Tell us like it is
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When you’re invited to a Course ‘Team’, you’ll receive an invitation like this:
If your email address is associated with a Microsoft account already you will
be able to click straight through. If it’s not, when you click ‘Open Microsoft
Teams’ you’ll be asked to create a free Microsoft account. You’ll only need to
do this once, we promise!
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Note: some browsers are not compatible with the online option,
Chrome is a safe bet.
Similar to other platforms like Zoom and Slack, Teams encourages you
to download the app. You usually have access to more functionality that
way. If you’d like to have the option to collaborate when you’re on the
go, the app for mobile devices is very easy to use too – it’s accessible
via your app store.
Once you’re in
2. The channels (located inside the Team) help us organise the themes
and conversations where you’re learning or doing collaborative work.
1. Teams 2. Channels
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✓ Take control of your experience and how you stay up to date with conversations.
Go to your Profile > Settings > Notifications to set how you are notified of
new conversations / documents etc. If you’re not often in Microsoft Teams you
may want to keep email notifications on.
✓ If you already use Teams for another organisation you’ll be able to switch
between instances by clicking beside your profile pic. You should see a
notification dot on your profile if there are messages for your attention.
✓ The @mention function will notify people of your post. Either use @Team to get
everyone at once, or @name to bring a post to the attention of specific people.
Use it judiciously because it will trigger a notification for team members –
equally, don’t be afraid to use it to help break through the hundreds of messages
we’re all bombarded with.
✓ Quickly find conversations where people have tagged you or replied to you by
clicking the bell icon.
✓ It’s nice to acknowledge you’ve read someone’s post – no one likes talking into a
vacuum! You can use emoji, a comment, GIF – anything you like, we’re a pretty
human bunch.
✓ Help keep conversation threads together by looking for the ‘Reply’ box (it’s
sometimes easy to miss it and reply to someone in a new conversation which
means your reply could get separated from the initial conversation.
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Hopefully that’s enough to get you started, we can’t wait to see you in the space. If you
experience any issues start by letting Athanasia know and we can go from there.