Understanding standard channels

Standard channels, as seen in Chapter 1, Microsoft Teams Basics, are subsets of a team and are used to have conversations and share documents on the same topic.

Everything shared in a standard channel becomes available to all the team members. However, this was, for a long time, a major limitation of Microsoft Teams, forcing channel owners to duplicate their teams in order to share private and sensitive information.

Let's look at a scenario to help us understand this:

A standard channel scenario: John, the teacher

John is a teacher responsible for the Engineering 101 course and a strong advocate of Microsoft Teams. He wants to build an e-learning platform for the course using Teams. This platform will be publicly available to all the students and teachers.

John has created a standard channel for each course subject and added all the teachers and the students to the team using their school accounts. John has structured...