Work smarter by using SharePoint to aid you in collaboration tasks. Embrace modern collaboration outside of email!

This course is a quick introduction to SharePoint Online (SharePoint 2013). I spend about an hour walking through some of the most common features that you would use in a team site.

In the course, I create a team site for a fictitious branch under HR, the recruiting team. First we create two custom lists: Job Positions and Job Candidates. Next, we create a document library and show how we can use SharePoint to enable collaboration on status reports. Then we create a document library for policy documents, a library that requires approval before documents can be seen by everyone. After that we create a task list to assign work to teammates, and a shared calendar to keep track of the interview schedule. Finally, I cover permissions/sharing in SharePoint.

In most of the sections, I show how sometimes interfacing with SharePoint is best done from another Microsoft Office application--you don't have to be in a web browser on the SharePoint home page to take advantage of the collaboration features.