Microsoft Teams

The Data Mine uses Microsoft Team for team communication and collaboration. The Microsoft suite of applications is free for all students. The Data Mine will use MS Teams as mode of chatting as well as video calls for online meetings with mentors.

Download

You can download Microsoft Teams for your phone or desktop at this link.

Log In

Log in using your Purdue login credentials, or if you are a National Data Mine Network or Indiana Data Mine student, use your university login credentials. You do not need to use your duo two-factor authentication login.

When you register for a Corporate Partners Project, you will automatically be added to a MS Teams channel for that project. It may take about a day to register on the back end so please be patient. If you do not get added after 36 hours, please submit a ticket to datamine-help@purdue.edu.

The call information for your virtual 50-minute (LEC) team meeting (and online lab if applicable for NDMN) are pinned in the MS Teams chat. You can access the pinned message by clicking on the "i" for information in the top right of the General channel.

Outlook Home: Groups
Figure 1. Example page of a Corporate Partner’s MS Team page with pinned calendar invite.

Email Groups

Login into Outlook Online

Outlook login
Figure 2. Outlook Login

  • Sign in with your Purdue email and Purdue password.

  • Verify your account login.

  • View your Outlook homepage.

  • Find your team listed in the left hand panel under Groups.

  • Once you are in the MS Team channel, you will also be included in an Outlook email group. This email group keeps the history of all emails exchanged from the associated email group.

  • It is within your group that you will find calendar invitations and other team related information. Please read through all emails when first joining the team.

Sending or replying to any message in this group will send it to the entire team.
Outlook Home: Groups
Figure 3. On the bottom left corner you can access the folder on your

Breakout Rooms

You must be the Teams meeting organizer or co-organizer to activate and edit breakout rooms.

Breakout Rooms are a new feature to Purdue’s instance of Microsoft Teams, it can be initiated by selecting the 'Rooms' icon by 'Apps' in the meeting bar. You will be unable to assign co-organizers to a room as they are able to move freely, consider using the primary room for discussion between organizers.

TAs should email datamine-help@purdue.edu to request to be added as a co-organizer for breakout room privileges.