Editing Teams (section)

== Layout ==
Teams features private dms, private group chats, and public channels. The channels are set up in different "Buildings" (e.g. High School building, Middle School Building, and Elementary School building, in which are the Courtyard, Auditorium, Spiritual Life, etc.) and "Groups" (e.g. Music Club, Creative Writing Club, Book Club, etc, which all have their own sub-channels.) See the example below:
[[File:Screenshot 2025-03-08 at 15-11-30 Teams and Channels 📜 Legends and Lore Microsoft Teams.png|none|thumb|574x574px|''Screenshot of Teams from early 2025'']]
Only channel administrators can add or remove users, delete others' posts/comments, add or remove channels, etc.<ref>or so you'd think 👀</ref> NSA faculty are these admins for the HS and MS buildings, and club leaders are admins along with faculty for the various clubs.<ref>Surely no one else would be accidentally added as admin to any of the teams, no, that would be a terrible oversight 😬</ref>


Direct messages (DMs)<ref>Also known as private messages or personal messages</ref> and group chats (GCs) operate a little bit differently. Any student can (as of 2025) message any other student, regardless of grade. Simply type their name into the search bar, and select the message icon. There is no "block" feature (that I know of.) Group chats can be created by anyone, and anyone can be added by those already in the group chat. To start a group chat, you have to add at least two other people (I think,) but group chats can still exist even if everyone but one person leaves. In the 2023 and 2024 school years, there were policies implemented disallowing the addition of non-consenting persons to group chats, but there is no mechanism in Teams to enforce the policy. So, you're supposed to ask someone before you add them to a group chat, but that rule is often broken. There are no GC admins, so any member can kick any other member.<ref>This was changed sometime in late 2024 or early 2025, now there is no way to kick other members. An individual must leave a GC, he or she cannot be kicked.</ref> There is no such thing as permanent banning (unless done by a faculty member,) so there have at times been ugly kicking wars where a small group of people attempts to remove all other members from the chat.


The largest group chats have at times neared 100 members, though I'm not sure if any have passed that number. [[The Quotes Chat]] has had upwards of 90 members at times, and I've heard that the [[Hudson Fan Club|HFC]] has boasted nearly that many as well.