Microsoft SharePoint Online Site Basics

Microsoft SharePoint
Course Length: 1 Day
Course Format: Instructor–Led and In-Person
Course Hours: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

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Course Description

Course Overview: In many professional environments, people work collaboratively in teams. Information technology and applications facilitate this by enabling people to easily share, access, edit, and save information. Microsoft® SharePoint® is a platform specifically designed to facilitate communication and collaboration, enabling people to use familiar applications and web-based tools to create, access, store, and track documents and data in a central location. In this course, you will use SharePoint to access, store, share, and collaborate with information and documents.

Target Student: This course is designed for Microsoft® Windows® and Microsoft Office users who are transitioning to a SharePoint environment, and who need to access information from and collaborate with team members within Microsoft SharePoint.

Prerequisites: To ensure your success in this course, you should have basic end-user skills with a current version of Microsoft Windows. You can obtain these skills by taking the following CompuTrain courses:

  • Using Microsoft® Windows® 10
  • Microsoft® 365 Office for the Web (with Teams®)
Course Objectives

In this course, you will use a typical SharePoint team site to work collaboratively with other team members. You will:

  • Launch a SharePoint site and navigate among the pages and resources provided by the site.
  • Use SharePoint lists to track and view information.
  • Use document libraries to store and organize documents.
  • Find, share, and archive content stored in SharePoint.
  • Author documents as a member of a SharePoint team site.
  • Use SharePoint workflow automation tools.
Course Content
Lesson 1: Navigating SharePoint Sites
  • Launch SharePoint
  • Gain Access to a Site You Didn't Create
  • Navigate Within a SharePoint Site
  • Access SharePoint from Your Mobile Device
Lesson 2: Using Lists to Track Information
  • Add and Populate Lists
  • Change View Options
  • Create a Custom View
Lesson 3: Using Document Libraries to Share and Organize Documents
  • Store Files in a Document Library
  • Create and Use Document Templates
Lesson 4: Finding, Sharing and Archiving Content
  • Search for Items in Lists or Libraries
  • Share Through Links
  • Move Files Offline
Lesson 5: Authoring Documents as a Team
  • Work Together on Documents
  • Manage File Versions and Document Recovery
Lesson 6: Automating Business Processes
  • Use Rule-Based Automation
  • Use Power Automate to Automate a Workflow