Course Length

2 days

Why come on this course?

The goal of this course is to provide you with the knowledge to use the more advanced tools of Microsoft SharePoint Online. You will discover how to customise apps and modify their settings in order for them to control key business information. You will edit various types of web pages to arrange information and ensure it meets business processes and compliance. You will also identify custom features specific to SharePoint Online not available in the server edition that will improve team collaboration and management.

Who is it for?

The course is aimed at people who are involved with customising apps to collaborate with a team with strong emphasis on business needs and content. This course will also benefit Team Site Owners and managers.

Prerequisites

  • A good understanding of Windows.
  • Experience using Internet Explorer 11 or equivalent browser.
  • Attendance on the Microsoft SharePoint Online End User Introduction or equivalent experience.
  • Fundamental experience with Office 365 is recommended, such as Log in and navigation around the service.
  • A good knowledge of Office 2016 applications (Word, Excel, Outlook)

What will I learn?

  • Manage custom apps and their settings
  • Import data from and Excel Worksheet into a Custom List
  • Customise and manage metadata to meet business data needs
  • Customise and manage views to present information on web pages
  • Edit Web pages and Web Parts
  • Create a custom Workflows
  • Summarise data using reports

Course contents

Beyond SharePoint End User

  • SharePoint Contributor Review
  • The user roles of SharePoint
  • SharePoint Live updates

Customise built-in apps

  • Built-in app templates
  • Identify your site content
  • Create your apps
  • App Settings
  • App Settings to consider
  • Picture Libraries
  • Discussion boards
  • Surveys
  • Custom lists from scratch
  • Custom lists from Excel tables

 Advanced metadata

  • Define your metadata
  • Systems and site metadata
  • Hyperlink / Picture columns
  • Lookup columns
  • Calculated columns
  • Managed metadata columns
  • Metadata integrity
  • Rating settings

 Working with views

  • Understanding views
  • Managing views
  • Use styles in views

 Connect to Microsoft Office

  • Principals of using Office with SharePoint
  • Export data from SharePoint to Excel
  • Synchronise data between Excel and SharePoint
  • Connect SharePoint with Microsoft Access

 Web Page Editing

  • Understand Content Pages
  • Site pages
  • Wiki pages
  • Formatting wiki pages
  • Pictures
  • Adding Web media
  • Hyperlinks
  • Hyperlinks to an email address
  • Web part pages
  • Web parts

 Workflows

  • Understanding workflows
  • Enable workflow templates
  • Add a workflow
  • Manually start a workflow
  • View running workflow history
  • Allow, retire, or remove a workflow

 Business Data Reports

  • Report Library
  • Excel Workbook Reports
  • Design the Dashboard
  • Excel Web Access web part
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