Create a team code so colleagues can join your team themselves

A class, a working group or an event: sometimes you want people to join a team themselves, without you looking up every name. With a team code you share a short code, and anyone in your organisation who enters it becomes a member. This article shows how to create a code and how joining works.

Create a team code

1. Hover over the team > More options (...) > Manage team (or Settings).
2. Open the Settings tab and expand Team code.
3. Select Generate. Teams creates a seven-character code.
4. Select Copy and share the code by email, chat or on a slide. Full screen shows the code large during a class or presentation.

Join with a code

1. In Teams, select Teams > + (Create or join) > Join a team with a code.
2. Type the code and select Join.

Good to know

• Only owners can create a team code.
• The code only works for people in your own organisation. Guests can't use it. Read add guests.
• The code also works for private teams: anyone with the code gets in without approval. Only share it with the right people.
• Code leaked or no longer needed? Under Team code, select Reset for a new code, or Remove.

Alternatives

• Share a link to the team: More options > Get link to team. For a private team an owner must approve the request.
• Adding lots of people at once: read add multiple members at once.

Read also

Add multiple users to a team at once in Microsoft Teams
Create and organise a team in Microsoft Teams
How to add external guests in Microsoft Teams

Nederlandstalige versie: Een teamcode maken zodat collega's zelf deelnemen aan je team

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