Low-code Q&A bot for Microsoft Teams helps communities provide better onboarding process

Ayca Bas

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Learn from the community

If we are new in a community or a program, often times we have some questions during the onboarding process. It is possible that there may be a time zone difference or work schedule. Admins might not always be available to answer questions. A group of Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors built a Microsoft Teams bot to provide better onboarding and support in such communities. Student Ambassadors targeted the Microsoft Learn Educator Ambassador Community that is a community of educators who are there to learn, build and share together. Ambassadors designed a community bot with low-code tools to handle questions asked by educators. 

This community bot is designed using Power Platform and consumes Microsoft Teams as a channel to provide answers to questions asked by educators. Additional technologies include: 

  • SharePoint list is used as a database to feed QnAMaker knowledge base. 
  • QnAMaker Cognitive Service is used for building a knowledge base and the community bot was created automatically in QnAMaker portal with zero code. 
  • Power Automate flow is designed to update the QnAMaker knowledge base with the new or modified questions in the SharePoint list.  
  • Power App is built to help admins easily add new question and answer pairs which reflects to the bot’s knowledge base. 
  • Microsoft Teams is consumed as a channel to the community bot. 

Microsoft Learn Educator Ambassador Community bot is an open-source project and can be reused by other communities to provide support to their community members. 

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