SharePoint Teams Sites Quick Tips

Course details

SharePoint team sites allow groups of people to collaborate on projects and libraries, as well as collectively source data. SharePoint provides a lot of functionality that can help teams collaborate and communicate effectively and efficiently; however, actually finding and using these features isn't always intuitive. In this course, Shari L. Oswald provides a variety of quick tips and ideas that can help SharePoint users get the most out of team sites. Throughout the course, Shari acquaints you with several helpful—but not widely known—SharePoint features. Learn strategies for creating user-friendly navigation, working with calendars, creating custom permission levels, streamlining your work, and more.

Learning objectives
Customizing the look and feel of your site
Enabling retention and auditing policies
Adding the ability to like or rate your items or documents
Working with SharePoint calendars
Adding a site Asset Library
Adding and organizing promoted links
Working with columns and views
Creating custom permission levels

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Beyond the basics with team sites

1. Getting Started with SharePoint Team Sites

02 - Using the getting started link bar
03 - Share your site
04 - Working on a deadline
05 - Add lists, libraries, and other apps
06 - What's your style
07 - Your site, your brand

2. Best-Kept Secret List and Library Settings

08 - Managing files with no checked-in version
09 - Enabling retention policies
10 - Enabling auditing policies
11 - Enabling rating settings
12 - Hiding your list or library from search
13 - Disabling offline capabilities
14 - Save templates

3. Working with Calendars

15 - Why use a SharePoint calendar
16 - Adding a calendar overlay

4. Creating User-Friendly Navigation

17 - Adding a link to a view of a list or library
18 - Adding a Promoted Links list
19 - Adding a site Asset Library
20 - Uploading images to the site Asset Library
21 - Adding a Promoted Link
22 - Organizing your Promoted Links
23 - Adding a Promoted Links Web Part

5. Using Audience Targeting

24 - What is audience targeting
25 - Using audience targeting on Web Parts

6. Working with Columns and Views

26 - Exploring custom column options
27 - Create a lookup column in a list or library
28 - Creating a personal view

7. Next Level Permissions

29 - Creating custom permission levels
30 - Checking a user's permissions

8. Streamlining Your Work

31 - Syncing a task list to Outlook
32 - Syncing a contacts list to Outlook