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Channels are the conversations you have with your teammates around a specific topic, department, or project. Team owners and admins determine which members can create channels.
A standard channel is open to all members, and anything posted is searchable by others. Private channels are best for smaller audiences or a specific project. Shared channels are open to those outside of your team or organization.
For detailed instructions on creating channels, see this article.
Standard channels
A standard channel is open to all members, and anything posted is searchable by others.
Note: if you later add outside contacts to your team (Either students, third party contractor, or incoming faculty/staff member) they will be able to access all standard channels
Private channels
For a focused place to discuss projects and topics within a team, create a private channel.
Only owners or members of the private channel can access it. You can create up to 30 private channels over the life of a team.
Example: Department budget information might go in a "Leadership" channel for your department that only some individuals are members of
Shared channels
With a shared channel, you can work with people outside the team or organization as well as people inside. Only team owners can create shared channels. A shared channel inherits labels (such as its description) from its host team. They team owner who creates the shared channel becomes the channel owner.
Example: Creating a shared channel inside of the IT team called Student workers only provides access to that channel, and nothing else.
Note: You can't change a channel to a different type once it's created.