Office 365 modern SharePoint sites for beginners

Create your first modern SharePoint Communication site.

In this video, I will explore all the components that come with the newly created SharePoint Communication site. I will demonstrate how to navigate effectively on the site to find stuff easily.

Update your site logo, title, and description to align with your company or team culture.

A SharePoint site has menus on various places on a page at different times. This video is a quick overview of diverse SharePoint menus you can take advantage of when you are on your SharePoint site.

If you are a site owner, you would be able to modify the site navigation, and this is a demo on how to do that.

You can invite users to your site and grant them different levels of permissions like editors, readers, or owners. Sections of your SharePoint site are seen differently depending on if the user is just reader, editor, or owner.

The demo shows how a site can be made visible to everyone in the organization. A tip that might be useful when you plan to have your intranet portal and work on it privately until it is ready. Once your internet site is ready, you would have to know how to invite employees all at once.

No web design skills are required to make your site a little more appealing. The SharePoint themes and colors still have limited options, but at least you can quickly change the look to match your style.

By default, the SharePoint site comes with a big site header that can be changed to a minimal one if you would prefer minimalistic designs.

The student will learn how to create modern SharePoint site pages.

There are multiple options to customize the top section of a SharePoint site page. I will talk about them in this video.

Create a text-rich SharePoint online site page utilizing the text web part. I will demonstrate the precious text capabilities of it.

This lecture will explain how a content author can add images on a modern SharePoint site page.

Reporting is an integral part of the modern workspace, and SharePoint is no exception in displaying reports even on a site page.

In this lecture, I will show how to display a PDF document on a SharePoint site page.

In this lecture, I will show how to display a PowerPoint presentation on a SharePoint site page.

In this lecture, I will show how to display a word document on a SharePoint site page.

This video demonstrates a tip for uploading an MP4 video file to SharePoint and displaying that video on a modern SharePoint site page. I would use Microsoft Stream for more advanced scenarios, but simple requirements uploading an MP4 video is a nice hack that can do the work.

The Document Library is a powerful feature of the SharePoint site for organizing team files. A document can easily be stored there and edited by multiple users simultaneously without causing conflicts.

The sync feature of a Document Library allows the team files to be downloaded and synced from a local folder of your Windows or macOS operating system. That means that you and your team have a folder on the operating system where the files are always up to date, no matter which team member updated them.

This video will demonstrate how you can organize team files in folders and sub-folders. I will show some helpful hacks on how to copy and move files and folders using drag and drop.

The metadata is a very important piece of business nowadays. Adding extra data to your documents might simplify the business process or unlock new opportunities.

Document versioning is enabled in Document Libraries by default. It allows you to revert to a previous version of any document. It will enable you to keep track of changes made by your teammates as well.

List views are powerfull representations of data, and we can create a list view per business requirement. Once a student utilizes this process, they can solve business needs by just creating a separate view that shows only the right documents and data.

Every business needs a content approval flow. The SharePoint document library supports this by default. It is a simplified version and less powerfull than PowerAutomate flow, but it is quick to set up.

This video shows how multiple users can edit a document stored in a SharePoint document library at the same time, without any interactions. It is a demonstration of what the experience is and what feedback is given the all the editors while editing the document simultaneously.

I will explore different ways to share a file that is stored in a SharePoint document library.

SharePoint lists are like spreadsheets. I usually use the lists as forms for storing employee requests  like timesheets, service requests, project requests, HR database, and others. In the video, I will show how to get started and create a modern team Timesheets list.

The Title column comes with every list, and it is tough to hide it, especially if you are new to SharePoint. In the video, I am explaining how you can hide the Title column from a list in case you do not want to use it.

The quick edit feature of a SharePoint list is giving the user the option to edit data rows the same way as in the Excel spreadsheets. In this video, I will explore this feature.

In this video, I will explore the export to excel feature of a modern SharePoint list. It is a handy feature that can enrich your reporting capabilities for the list, including Microsoft Excel in the toolset.

We created a Timesheets list, and it needs manager approval on new submission. Let's implement manager approval for new timesheet entries.

In this video, I will explore ways to sort and filter data and then save it as a separate list view. This is handly when the business requires to see the data from different angles.

Users that can edit their items in a list can modify the items of the others by default. In this video, I will share a tip on how to prevent users from editing items that are not created by themselves.

Let's make some use of the Events calendar and turn it into an organizational calendar. The events feature usually underestimated by the users, but I will try to convince you that it can be useful.

Sometimes an author might fall into a site page lock applied by another user how we can unlock a site page that is checked in by users that went on a vacation, for example.

Do not worry if someone deleted an important file. There are ways to recover it. In this video, I will explore the recycle bin and the second stage recycle bin. Did you not know there is a second stage recycle bin?

In this video, I will share a quick tip on how to set another site page as a homepage for your SharePoint site.

Thank you for your time! I hope this course will help you understand SharePoint better.