You must use the name standard of your first and last name as your display name.
In addition to this, the following applies if you need to change your display name in Slack (for example, if it was misspelled or the name was synced wrong when you first logged in). Read more about how to change your display name
change your display name in Slack
(slack.com).
Talk to your colleagues and nearest manager to set up expectations on your use of Slack.
For big social channels, have an open mindset. It's like joining someone's coffee break; sometimes you have to accept to miss out on parts of the conversation.
You can also schedule and configure your notifications to suit your personal use and needs, you can read more about it on
Get started with KTH Slack
.
That is up to you, but many find it handy to have both installed.
Students are not allowed to join KTH Slack workspace due to our rules and regulations as an authority, where they apply somewhat different when you are a student compared to when you are an employee and thus employed by the government.
The short answer is yes you can, but as with students they do not count as employees or similar and can therefore only be invited to external channels. Read more about
Rules and recommendations
and pay extra attention to the part on "external Slack channels" on
Management rules for channels in KTH Slack
if you are thinking of setting up an external channel for external users.
Please note that we will not accept external users in internal channels, and invitations to those channels will be declined for external users.
The easiest way is to copy-and-paste the data from a channel into a document. For more robust ways to archive data, please contact
it-support@kth.se
for further information on available solutions for archiving.
