This module explains SharePoints’ new features and introduces the course Case Study. Using the course case study, you will be assigned a country for whom you will build a customized team site and a subsite to store your countries’ information. You will get an overview of SharePoint 2016 and also see the completed SharePoint site you will work on throughout the course.

This module explains how to adequately plan your SharePoint architecture. Base terminology, such as site collections, top level sites, subsites, and site templates will be explained. You will complete labs to create multiple subsites from templates and establish the foundation for which future exercises will be developed. Upon creation of sites, you will learn how to approach common SharePoint administration tasks and complete labs to make adjustments to your site’s look and feel, navigation, and features.

This module explains how to share a SharePoint site and approach common security/permissions scenarios. Basic permission terminology is covered with a focus on inheritance and how/when to stop inheriting permissions at a subsite, list/library, folder, or individual item/file. Users will request permission from other sites and respond to access requests made by others. Best practice security management techniques will also be discussed. Users will explore sharing files in SharePoint Online by sharing a file externally using a personal (non-SharePoint) email address.

This module explains how to work with SharePoint list apps to manage content in SharePoint. Users will learn that all content and many of the backend configuration options in SharePoint are managed via SharePoint lists. Commonly used apps including the task list and calendar app will be used, showing the practical project management functionality offered in project site templates. Users will create alerts to receive email notification of changes to files. Additional app templates will be leveraged including a contact list, a promoted links list, a picture library, a survey, and importing a list structure from a Microsoft Excel table. SharePoint Online will be investigaged, particularly third-party apps available in the app store.

This module explains how to manage documents in a SharePoint site. You will learn multiple methods to upload files to a SharePoint site. Best practice file organization techniques will be discussed utilizing metadata for file management rather than folders. You will create views to harness the power of your metadata as well as configure settings in your library for major/minor versions, check-out/check-in behavior, and content approval. You will also sync the files in a SharePoint document library to your local computer using OneDrive for Business. A comparison will be made between managing information in SharePoint on-premises and SharePoint Online.

This module explains how to leverage powerful enterprise building blocks in SharePoint to build larger enterprise solutions with reduced effort. Site columns and content types will be leveraged to provide consistent metadata tagging and templates for regularly used content. New columns, such as Managed Metadata for referencing a hierarchical taxonomy and External Columns for deriving values from an external data source will be used. Search use and configuration will be covered, as well as Enterprise Social techniques for using a SharePoint MySite to foster collaboration among team members. Finally, the Delve experience with MySites in SharePoint Online will be compared to the MySites in SharePoint on-premises.

This module explains how to use web part pages and wiki pages to add and customize additional information in SharePoint. You will make basic updates to content on your home page, as well as create additional pages to hold other content. A review of the large number of web parts will be provided and you will add web parts to your page to display information from your lists and libraries. Methods of content roll-ups will be explored using the content by query web part and the content search web part. Lastly, comparisons will be made between editing pages in collaboration sites vs. publishing sites.

This module explains the fundamentals of process in automation in SharePoint with workflows. Starting with out-of-the-box workflows and graduating to SharePoint Designer workflows, you will learn how to develop multiple types of multi-participant approval workflows to eliminate ad-hoc processes and streamline your operations. Lastly, recent products including Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow, that possibly represent the future of workflow in SharePoint Online will be examined.

This module explains the many different ways that SharePoint is integrated with Microsoft Office. You will review how to connect a variety of lists and library apps to Microsoft Outlook and work with fellow attendees to simultaneously edit content in a Microsoft Word document. Lastly, different methods of utilizing Microsoft Excel to connect to SharePoint will be reviewed.