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Available to: Microsoft Teams desktop and web version users
As part of the Explain Everything integration with Microsoft Teams, you can whiteboard together in your chats and channels, and have instant access to the Explain Everything whiteboard and your projects right from your Microsoft Teams account.
Note: Before you start, make sure that the admin of your Office 365 organization has enabled the ability to add external apps in Microsoft Teams. If you don't see the option of adding an app, it means that your admin may have disabled it.
Add Explain Everything to your chats and channels
Whether you're having a one-on-one chat, or a group conversation in a channel, you can add Explain Everything to a tab at the top of a selected chat or channel to present your ideas and work with others together.
- Go to a chat or channel of your choice.
- From the top of the selected chat's or channel's window, select + to add a tab.
- In the Add a tab window, find Explain Everything on the list of the recently used apps, or use the search bar to find it, and select it.
- Sign in to your Explain Everything account if necessary.
- Search for the project you'd like to share — enter the project's name or its CODE in the search bar. If you don't have a project yet, select + Create New Project and go straight to step 7.
- Once found, choose Select on the project's thumbnail.
- Select the Save button — the project will open in the selected chat's or channel's window.
Tip: After you add Explain Everything to a tab, you can set up permissions for others to access your project. You can also customize collaboration rules and features, and choose a preset collaboration scenario.
Tip: Have no conversations in Chat or Teams yet? Learn how to start a chat and how to create a new team or channel on the Microsoft Teams support website.
Add a shortcut to Explain Everything to your navigation
If you'd like to jump onto the whiteboard and reach out to your projects with just one click, you can add a shortcut to Explain Everything to your navigation. This will let you start live, interactive projects with voice chat, and share your projects in a quick and easy way.
- From the navigation, select the ••• three dot menu.
- Use the search bar to find the Explain Everything app, and select it once found.
- Select the Add button.
- Sign in to your Explain Everything account if necessary.
- Explain Everything will be added to your navigation.
- Select the Start new project button to start a live, interactive project with voice chat. If you'd like to share an already existing project, use the search bar to find it, and choose Select on its thumbnail once found — you'll be taken to the Explain Everything whiteboard so you can present your ideas and work with others.
Tip: Don't forget to pin Explain Everything to your navigation after adding a shortcut so you have easy and instant access to your whiteboard and projects from the navigation.
Tip: After you add Explain Everything to your navigation, you can set up permissions for others to access your project. You can also customize collaboration rules and features, and choose a preset collaboration scenario.
Rename Explain Everything tabs in your chats and channels
By default, when you add a tab with the Explain Everything project to your chats and channels, it gets the name of the project you add. You can easily rename the tab whenever you need.
- Go to a chat or channel of your choice.
- From the top of the selected chat's or channel's window, select the name of the tab with the project you'd like to rename.
- Once it loads, select the down arrow to the right of the tab's name to reveal a list of additional options.
- From the dropdown menu, choose Rename.
- In the text box, enter a new tab name.
- When you’re ready, select the Save button to update the name of the tab with your Explain Everything project.
Remove Explain Everything tabs from your chats and channels
You can add as many tabs with the Explain Everything whiteboard to your chats and channels as you need, and work on a few projects simultaneously. However, if you’d like to remove a tab, you can do it in a few easy steps.
- Go to a chat or channel of your choice.
- From the top of the selected chat's or channel's window, select the name of the tab with the project you'd like to remove.
- Once it loads, select the down arrow to the right of the tab's name to reveal a list of additional options.
- From the dropdown menu, choose Remove.
- Select the Remove button to confirm removing the tab.
Tip: You can also remove the Explain Everything tab from your chat or channel by simply deleting a sent message if you posted about the tab to a chat or channel.