SharePoint 2013: End User

Discover how SharePoint 2013 tackles information sharing challenges, integrating file shares and email into a centralized, user-friendly platform for versioning, access, and search.

Discover how SharePoint, a web-based platform, enables collaboration, co-authoring, central content management, and customizable sites that integrate with Office apps and SQL Server.

Access a SharePoint site via its web address, manage permissions, and explore core components like sites, pages, lists, libraries, web parts, app parts, and offline with SkyDrive Pro.

Explore the new SharePoint 2013 features—from social newsfeeds, following, and micro blogging, to SkyDrive Pro integration, offline sync, enhanced search with content search web part, and apps.

Explore the SharePoint site collection hierarchy and the key site elements, including basic, navigational, and content elements, while examining the SharePoint 2013 ribbon interface as part of the user interface.

Visualize how a SharePoint site collection hierarchy organizes content from the top level site to team sites and sub sites, with access controlled by administrators.

Explore the basic and navigational elements of a SharePoint 2013 site, including the home page, welcome link, top and quick launch bars, and breadcrumb trail.

Discover how SharePoint 2013 uses the ribbon interface to access library, list, and file commands, and how the browse tab reveals the breadcrumb trail for navigation.

Define what a list is in SharePoint and explore common list types, ribbon controls, and actions to create, view, edit, delete, restore items, and create custom views and timeline.

Learn how to create, view, and edit items in SharePoint 2013 lists, including using new item, edit, and data sheet views, and managing calendar events.

Delete single or multiple list items in SharePoint 2013 using the three-dot menu or ribbon, then restore them from the site recycle bin to the instructors list.

Explore how to view and organize SharePoint lists by using built-in and custom views, including creating personal views, switching between calendar and standard layouts, and applying sort and filter options.

Learn to use ribbon controls in a SharePoint 2013 list, navigating the list and items tabs to edit, view, tag, note, alert, email a list link, and export to Excel.

Explore content management in SharePoint 2013 end user: how content approval, version history, workflows, alerts, and validation rules govern item publishing and contributor rights.

Learn to use the timeline web part in SharePoint 2013 to visualize start and due dates for list items and add tasks to the timeline for a graphical project view.

Define SharePoint libraries and manage documents, including Office and other files, by creating, uploading, deleting, restoring, metadata tagging, creating views, checking out/in, accessing versions, and using folders.

Define libraries as central repositories for storing files with metadata that enables filtering, views, and searches, while enabling versioning, approvals, and workflows, with document libraries storing any file type.

Create and upload documents to a SharePoint 2013 library, using new document creation, save as to SharePoint, and drag-and-drop or Windows Explorer uploads, while viewing and editing file properties.

Delete a single file or multiple files from a SharePoint library using the open menu or checkboxes. Files move to the recycle bin for 30 days and can be restored.

Learn how to create and enforce library metadata, like an application type field, to quickly filter, view, and search course handouts in SharePoint libraries.

Learn to change and create library views in SharePoint 2013, including sorting, filtering, and saving personal or public views for outlook course handouts.

Learn how document checkout in a SharePoint library gives you exclusive editing rights while checked out, while others can view in read-only mode; changes aren't published until you check in.

Explore how version control in a SharePoint 2013 document library saves major and minor versions, handles check-ins and view version history.

Use folders sparingly within a library to organize files, mind URL length, and leverage open with explorer and custom views to manage permissions and access across libraries.

Explore content approval in a SharePoint library, learning how draft and major versioning affect approving files and the required permissions to approve or reject.

Initiate a workflow that's already created from the library's workflows menu, route approvals to designated people, start the process, and monitor progress via the document approval column.

Set up alerts in SharePoint 2013 by library or file scope using the alert me button on the library or files tab, with module five for details.

Discover how to search for SharePoint content and share it through email links, discussion boards, surveys, blogs, and wiki pages, with alerts and RSS feeds.

Set up email alerts for a SharePoint 2013 library or files using the alert me button, choose changes to notify, and set frequency such as immediate, daily, or weekly.

Explore RSS feeds for monitoring SharePoint list or library changes, an alternative to email alerts. Subscribe via the RSS feed button and view updates in Outlook or a browser.

Learn to search SharePoint 2013 content from the upper right box, scope to a site, site collection, or a list or library, and refine results with filters and date ranges.

Learn to use SharePoint 2013 discussion lists to start and reply to questions, mark best answers, and filter by answered or unanswered discussions.

Explore how to participate in and analyze surveys in SharePoint 2013 end user, including responding to surveys, viewing graphical or list responses, and exporting results to Excel.

Explore how SharePoint 2013 blogs work as sub sites, enabling you to create posts with subject and body, categorize, publish, follow blogs from the News Feed, and understand owner permissions.

Explore how SharePoint 2013 interfaces with Office Web Apps and other Microsoft Office applications, including adding documents from Office, working with spreadsheets, using forms and InfoPath, connecting to Outlook.

Save your documents directly from Word, Excel, or PowerPoint to a SharePoint library using save as, connect to Office, and access libraries like Course Handouts from Office applications.

Explore how SharePoint stores content in tabular structures aligned with SQL Server, view and edit data in a data sheet view, and export to Excel or import from Excel.

Explore how SharePoint generates forms for lists and libraries, and how Infopath-created forms differ in customization and storage in a forms library.

Learn how to connect SharePoint calendars, tasks, contacts, and libraries to Outlook using the Connect to Outlook feature, enabling bidirectional synchronization and in Outlook editing, all without leaving Outlook.

Explore Microsoft Office Web Apps in SharePoint, offering web-based Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook; view in browser, edit in the web apps, and enable co-authoring for collaboration.

Learn how Office Web Apps enables co-authoring in SharePoint, with multiple editors, saving and refreshing to view others' changes.

Explore SharePoint 2013 social networking features, including newsfeed, editing your profile, following people and sites, using tags and notes, microblogging, posting to your blog, and SkyDrive Pro integration.

Discover how SharePoint 2013's my site centers on a newsfeed, SkyDrive, and followed sites. Post updates, mention colleagues with the at symbol, and use hashtags to organize topics.

Explore the newsfeed's hashtag features in SharePoint 2013, including following tags, filtering posts by a hashtag, and viewing popular trending tags in the lower right corner.

Edit your About me profile to enter basic, contact, and detail information, making you searchable and easier to connect with coworkers on the SharePoint Newsfeed.

Learn how to follow people, documents, and sites in SharePoint to customize your news feed, manage follows from profiles and mentions, and stay connected with coworkers.

Tag files and add notes in SharePoint 2013, explore the tag and notes feature, note board, and how to access the tags page from the news feed and quick launch.

Explore microblogging in SharePoint 2013 by posting updates to the newsfeed, mentioning colleagues with @, and engaging through likes, replies, and following controls across everyone or specific sites.

Explore how to blog in SharePoint 2013 end user, from accessing your personal blog in the mysite environment to following blogs, creating posts, categorizing, and scheduling publication dates.

Publish and manage blog posts, filter by categories, edit posts, and manage comments in SharePoint 2013, with options to publish from Word via the blogging app.

Explore how SkyDrive Pro integrates with SharePoint 2013, manage private documents in my documents and follow documents, share folders with everyone, and offline synchronize to your computer.