Overview
Prerequisites
- A basic understanding of Windows 7, 8 or higher
- Good experience using Internet Explorer or an equivalent browser
- Fundamental experience with Office 365 is recommended, such as Log in and navigation around the service.
- Experience using Microsoft Office applications, such as Word and Excel
- Experience with the topics covered on, or have attended, the SharePoint Online End User Level 1 (QASPEUOL1) and SharePoint Online Core Skills Level 2 (QASPEUOL2) or equivalent courses.
- Have an understanding of what is expected of them by their organisation as a team site owner and how their newly developed skills will be used in the business.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand, plan and deploy a SharePoint Site solution for business needs
- Define the site architecture model
- Create and manage user groups
- Define SharePoint site and content security with permissions
- Define and create the navigation model for sites and apps
- Design the appropriate tools to search for content
- Apply their knowledge of web page editing to make content easier to process
- Create site reports to analyse and maintain SharePoint sites and their usage
Course Outline
- First steps of planning
- Site structure
- Site roles
- Site types
- SharePoint object naming
- Initial site settings
- Introduction to metadata
- Column types and properties
- Windows Explorer and mapping metadata
- Hyperlink or picture column
- Lookup column
- Calculated column
- Managed metadata and the term store
- Metadata integrity
- Column indexing
- App vs. site columns
- Content types
- Folders
- Document sets
- Social Connection
- Delve
- Search
- Introduction to site security
- Site security elements
- Permission level structure
- Permission planning
- Manage permission levels
- Create and manage SharePoint Groups
- Manage Users
- Permission inheritance
- Quick Share
- Permission Tips
- Navigation consistency
- Quick Launch
- Top link bar
- Links List
- Page types
- Site pages
- Add text to a site page
- Insert hyperlinks into text
- Insert an image
- Embed media
- Publish a site page
- News posts
- Introduction to web parts
- App previews
- Hero web part
- Microsoft 365 web parts
- Audience targeting
- Web part pages and web part connections
- Principals of Office with SharePoint
- Connect to Outlook
- Connect to Excel
- SharePoint reports
- Usage and popularity reports
- Inventory reports
- Audit log
Appendix 1: Extended SharePoint functionality
- Site templates
- App templates
- Content organiser
- Add library metadata to a document content type
- Mathematical
- Logical
- Date and time
- Text
- Web applications and site collections
- Apps
- Why use Workflows?
- What is Power Automate?
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