Microsoft SharePoint Online Team Site Tutorial

Work smarter by using SharePoint to aid you in collaboration tasks. Embrace modern collaboration outside of email!

This course is a quick introduction to SharePoint Online (SharePoint 2013). I spend about an hour walking through some of the most common features that you would use in a team site.

In the course, I create a team site for a fictitious branch under HR, the recruiting team. First we create two custom lists: Job Positions and Job Candidates. Next, we create a document library and show how we can use SharePoint to enable collaboration on status reports. Then we create a document library for policy documents, a library that requires approval before documents can be seen by everyone. After that we create a task list to assign work to teammates, and a shared calendar to keep track of the interview schedule. Finally, I cover permissions/sharing in SharePoint.

In most of the sections, I show how sometimes interfacing with SharePoint is best done from another Microsoft Office application–you don't have to be in a web browser on the SharePoint home page to take advantage of the collaboration features.

Why take this course? Because you want to learn better and more modern ways to collaborate in the office. If you're sending around email attachments at work to get things done, then you might want to take a look.