Beginner’s guide to

using Slack: How to

download and setup
Created by Helen Lee for CUIN 7368: Digital Imaging in Education
Assignment 2: Screen Capture Mini-Tutorial
What is Slack?
  Some teams nowadays are migrating or starting to use Slack to
help reduce the number of emails received, and in instances where
they would like to feel connected with team members throughout
the workweek in an easy way.
 Slack is a great collaboration tool for:
 Any teams looking to share and find information that is shared easily
 Any teams looking for a means to deliver information to the entire
Why Slack? team without having to use multiple threads of email while still
being able to send direct messages to individuals as needed
 Want a collaboration tool that can integrate with other applications
such as Google Drive
 Anyone working on a project with others and need an easy tool to
organize messages, documents, and information in one place
 Anyone who is a part of any kind of collaboration and need a simple
tool to organize messages
 Option 1: Browser version via Slack.com
Visit slack.com and click on “Launch Slack” at the top right hand corner to either launch
existing Slack workspaces in the browser, sign in to a workspace, or create a new workspace.

How to access
Slack
 Option 2: Download Slack for Desktop
Visit slack.com and hover over “Resources” where you can find a link that takes you to a page
to download the desktop version of Slack. This version is great if you have multiple Slack
workspaces for ease of toggling between different workspaces.

How to access
Slack
 Option 3: Download Slack for Mobile
Visit your app store (Android or IOS) and find the slack app. From there, you can download
and use Slack on your mobile smartphone with similar capabilities as the desktop version.

How to access
Slack
  On the online or desktop version, you
Getting can find all workspaces towards the
left hand side bar. The buttons to the
started - far left are where all workspaces can
be found – including where you can
Workspaces add new workspaces or log into
additional workspaces.
  On the online or desktop version, you
can also find where your channels are
within each workspace on the left
hand side bar menu.
 Channels are a way to help organize
similar subjects of messages and you
can add team members to relevant
Getting channels or add all team members to
started - individual channels.
 There are also options to lock
Channels channels to specific team members, if
there are topic discussions that are
only for specific people.
 All channel titles have no spaces and
you can easily add a channel by
clicking the “+” sign next to Channels
or “Add a Channel”
  Also on the left hand side bar menu,
there is an option to direct message
individuals or 1-2 individuals on your
Getting team
 The direct messaging option is very
started – similar to instant messages or
Direct messages on MS Teams or Skype to
individuals and smaller groups within
Messages your team.
 This is useful for individual
conversations or if there is a question
for a specific team member.
For more
information,
visit the Slack
Help Center at
slack.com/help