For modifying existing sites, creating new site users and adminstrators of SharePoint.

Overview

This course is designed for users and administrators of SharePoint sites who are responsible for using, managing and developing a professional and user friendly SharePoint environment. You will focus on working with, and modifying, existing sites and creating new sites for yourself and other users.

Duration

2 Day

Requirements

You need to be able to use a mouse and keyboard, and to be confident navigating the Web and Windows.

Objectives

• Describe ways SharePoint can enhance collaboration and increase effective working
• Define and implement a secure permissions structure
• Navigate different kinds of sites including team sites, document and meeting workspaces
• Customise SharePoint sites to make information easy to find for users of your site
• Add documents, check documents in / out and create version history for document
• Work with lists and calendars

Content

SharePoint Sites – a different way of working:
Navigating home page and sub-sites; modifying sites; creating announcements, tasks, contacts and links; setting alerts to notify you when changes are made to a site; customising sites and searching for information.

Creating and modifying SharePoint sub-sites:
Configuring site creation; how to effectively add items to sites, including document libraries and lists; modifying the content of a home page; applying themes from the site gallery; creating site templates.

Working with documents and document libraries:
Overview of document libraries; sharing a document with team members; creating a document workspace; reviewing documents in a workspace; uploading a document; creating folders; checking documents out/in; viewing previous versions of the document and rolling back changes, using content management to add templates to your library.

Creating a SharePoint list:
Using lists; sorting and filtering to view information; offering alternative views; generating user defined fields, importing a worksheet as a list, using Site Columns for efficiency, using the ‘Wiki Page as Front Page’ site feature.

Surveys:
Creating, using and collating site surveys.

Site administration tasks:
Managing users and permissions; managing site groups; how to manage template galleries; performing a site analysis; reporting on usage.

Creating a personal web site:
Using SharePoint to create a MySite area, modifying both private and public views, using tags.