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Microsoft Planner

Category: Office 365 Productivity and Business Software Audience: Faculty Researchers Staff
Microsoft Planner is a Microsoft 365 task management feature which is integrated with Microsoft Teams. Planner allows members of a Microsoft Team to quickly create buckets and tasks to organize and assign work.

Welcome to Microsoft Planner

Microsoft Planner tasks can be managed from within the Teams interface or by going to the Planner web interface. Tasks can be assigned to one or more team members with progress status, due dates and checklists.

Features

  • Create buckets to organize/categorize your team's tasks 
  • Create task, assign due dates, progress and assign team members to tasks 
  • Add checklists to tasks 
  • Attach files to tasks 
  • Add comments to tasks and assign labels 
  • Get notifications about task assigned to you and task progress 
  • Update Planner for iOS or Android devices 
  • Use Planner's visual dashboard to stay on top of task status for your team 

 

To Access Planner

Microsoft Planner can be accessed either through Outlook, Teams or Planner from the online web application. 

To access from the web application:

To access from Microsoft Teams:

Click on the three dots on the left-hand panel to View more apps and search for Planner.

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