FMO - SharePoint Online for Basic Users

Discovering SharePoint sites

SharePoint is a powerful site provisioning engine, allowing you to create different sites for your projects, teams, meetings, products... It makes the distinction between Team and Communication sites, both serving different purposes. In this module you will learn about the basics of SharePoint sites.

• What is a SharePoint Site?
• SharePoint Site Creation

SharePoint Content Management

SharePoint offers rich content management features. Lists and Libraries are the core content management components allowing you to store data and documents with the possibility to enrich them with custom metadata. Furthermore, we'll look at the editing and filtering experience you get as well as customizing your lists and libraries into different views in order to satisfy the needs of your colleagues.

• Fundamentals of Apps, Lists and Libraries
• Discovering a Custom List, Document Library and Contacts
• Working with the Filter and Details Pane
• Working with metadata and different column types
• Managing what you see with views

Document Management

Document Management is probably the most popular functionality of SharePoint. SharePoint Document Libraries allow you to easily manage versions, work together with your colleagues on the same document, assign metadata or work with different document templates.

• Keep track of different versions
• Configure check-out and Approval
• Grouping documents in Document Sets
• Receive email Alerts
• Co-Authoring on Office documents
• Recycle Bin

Working with Pages

Pages are essential for providing content to your colleagues. SharePoint page authoring makes it simple to create beautiful immersive responsive pages that integrate applications, data, text, media and many more. Pages are also crucial in providing news within your teams or organization. These news pages can be highly visible, since they are automatically aggregated in hub sites, mobile apps and the SharePoint home experience.

• Working with site pages
• Enriching your pages with web parts
• Authoring and publishing a Site Page
• Using pages as news
• Page approval
• Navigation best practices