Team rooms are areas in PH LearnLink that are used for collaboration and team work. You may use a team room to share ideas, documents, presentations, and web links with other members of your team. Teams are created by the PH LearnLink administrator. To create a new team room, send your request to nwcphp@u.washington.edu. If you have been assigned to a team room, the following instructions will help you use the team room tools.

Finding Your Team Room

1. To access your team room, log into PH LearnLink and click Collaborations in the side navigation panel.
2. Click Team Rooms.
   
   
   
   
3. Locate the name of your team room and click its title. Your team page will open displaying the team room tools.
   
   
   

Viewing and Uploading Content

1. To upload or view previously uploaded content, first go to your team room page.
2. Click the Content link.
3. To view content, click the plus signs (+) next to each type of content (documents, presentations, web sites, linked content), or click Expand All to show all content.
   
   
   
4. To open or download an item, click its link. The item will open in a pop-up window.
5. To upload new content, click the Add Content icon immediately to the right of the content type heading.
   
   
6. Fill out the form to add a document, presentation, web site, or linked content to your team room.
   
   Note: The Source field is required on this form. Enter your name for the source.

Sending E-mail to Your Team

1. To e-mail a message to your team, go to the main page of your team room.
2. Click E-mail.
3. In the Send E-mail pop-up window, put a check in the box next to Members. This will send your message to everyone in the team.
4. Enter the subject of the e-mail and type your message.
   
   
5. Click Send E-mail to mail your message.
   

Using the Discussion Board

The general discussion tool in your team room allows you to start a written online discussion with your team members. You can read and reply to messages that have been posted to the discussion board, or start a new message. A message and all subsequent replies are referred to as a thread.

1. To begin, go to the main page of your team room.
2. Click the General Discussion link.
3. If someone has started a message thread, there will be a link with the message title, author, and date. Click the link to read the message.
   
   Note: There are two numbers in parentheses next to the initial message title. The first number indicates the total number of messages in the thread. The second indicates the number of replies to the message.
4. To view the replies, click the plus symbol (+) next to the message. This will expand the thread.
   
   
5. To start a new thread, click Start a New Thread.
6. To reply to a message, click the message to open it, and then click Reply to type a new message.