SharePoint 2013 Power User: Site Collection Administrator

Explore the elements of a SharePoint site collection, navigate its structure, and define the roles and responsibilities to manage a well-organized site.

Explore the two main SharePoint areas—the master page and the content area—and learn how site navigation, quick launch, site contents, lists, and libraries organize content in a site collection.

Explore how SharePoint creates shared work areas with sites, content types, metadata, search, business intelligence, and composites, and develop essential site collection administrator skills for effective information management.

Document roles and responsibilities in your SharePoint environment, and integrate them into governance policies and training goals to ensure effective oversight and continued use.

Plan your SharePoint site collection and sites to improve design, usability, and information organization, then choose the right templates for your purpose across foundation and enterprise versions.

Plan your SharePoint site creation by defining purpose and mission, identifying the audience, organizing information with templates and navigation, and mapping content across top and sub sites.

Create a SharePoint subsite within an existing site collection using the settings menu, selecting a template, configuring path and permissions, and enabling navigation inheritance.

Navigate site and site collection settings to manage look and feel, enable top-level features, customize search, and control publishing, workflows, and records management across the entire site collection.

Activate site features for the current site, while site collection features affect all sites; use the web designer gallery to store reusable templates, web parts, and columns for cross-site reuse.

Explore how the look and feel settings on sub sites control branding, navigation bars, and breadcrumb links by managing inheritance, top link bar, and logo changes within a site collection.

Learn how publishing features alter site settings and expand look and feel options. Use the navigation tools to manage global and current navigation, sub sites, and mobile style sheets.

Define the purpose of your site collection, identify audiences, plan content types, and decide on sub sites with intuitive navigation and suitable templates.

Explore how to manage content with SharePoint lists and libraries, using templates, content approval, versioning, alerts, and import/export to customize views and organize information.

Explore how SharePoint stores content in lists and libraries, manages documents, images, web pages, and calendars, and uses views, alerts, versioning, and workflows to organize information.

Plan for SharePoint document libraries by defining content type and origin, and applying governance rules, versioning, approvals, and access controls to track changes and audit activity.

Create a document library in SharePoint by naming contracts, then add content with new documents, uploading or dragging files, and saving to the library from the site contents.

Configure a SharePoint document library by renaming it, enabling content approval, and enabling major and minor versioning with require-checkout. Update the default view to show version and approval status.

Plan and configure a SharePoint list by selecting templates and defining columns and data types such as log file number, item, location, tech, service date, and notes, with governance considerations.

Create a maintenance log custom list, add columns for log number, item, location, tech, service date, today, days from last, notes, and a repair form hyperlink to track restaurant maintenance.

Import spreadsheet data into a SharePoint list using the import spreadsheet template, map headers to columns, adjust data types, and enable quick launch for easy navigation.

Plan audience-specific SharePoint custom views to display list data by columns, sorting, filtering, and grouping, and tailor navigation and paging for mobile and desktop.

Export SharePoint list data using export to excel from the list tab, exporting the current view. Create or select views to control what exports, then filter in Excel if needed.

Create a style-based view using box and shaded options to display inventory items in boxed, alternating colors, then add quick launch links for navigation by location.

Activate metadata navigation and filtering in site features, then enable a location filter in list settings to display a metadata panel for intuitive filtering and easier information work.

Explore creating and customizing SharePoint list views to export data. Group by location, display totals, and enable quick editing with standard and datasheet views.

SharePoint libraries serve as storage containers in your site collection for file-based information and list data, enabling collaboration through content approval, versioning, importing, exporting, alerts, and multiple views for audiences.

Organize information in SharePoint by defining an information architecture and taxonomy, using custom columns, site columns, and the managed metadata service, then create and deploy content types and term sets.