Using Speed Dial Settings in Teams Calls to View Contact Availability or Presence
A user's availability in Teams is controlled either through their Bowdoin Outlook calendar or manually in Teams itself. To easiest way to be able to see a group of people's availability at once is to add them to your Speed Dial, then you will be able to view their availability/presence when you click on the calls icon in the Teams app.
Using Speed Dial to View Availability/Presence
To add a contact to your Teams Calls, open the Teams app and click on the Calls icon on the left side of the app window. When you click on the Calls icon the window should display your phone dial pad on the left, a history of your recent calls in the center and your contact groups on the right. The Speed dial group will be at the top by default. If the Speed dial group is not already displayed, click on Speed dial, then all of you Speed dial options will be displayed.
If you have Contacts already loaded into your Speed dial list they will appear. You can see their availability based on the small icon that appears in the lower right of their account icon.
A green circle indicates that the person is Available.
A yellow circle indicates that the person is Away.
A red circle indicates that the person is Busy or set to Do Not Disturb.
For more information about the availability icons in Teams please refer to this guide from Microsoft.
Adding Contacts to Speed Dial
To add a contact to your Speed Dial in the Teams app:
- Click on the Calls icon on the left side of the Teams app.
- Hover over Speed dial on the right side of the Teams window and click on the three horizontal dots, and click on Add a contact to this group.
- In the search window search for any Bowdoin community member that you want to add to your Speed dial.
Once you've added them they will appear in your Speed dial group and you can check their presence at a glance.