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SharePoint for Teams & Organisations

Design, build and manage SharePoint Online sites — document libraries, permissions, workflows, intranets, and Microsoft 365 integration.

🎓 Intermediate 🕑 12 hrs 🎉 Certificate of Completion 📋 Exam: MS-900 aligned

Course Overview

SharePoint Online is the cornerstone of document management and intranet communication in Microsoft 365. This course takes you from basic SharePoint user to confident site owner and administrator. You will create team sites and communication sites, design document libraries with metadata and versioning, manage permissions at every level, build modern intranet pages with web parts, integrate SharePoint with Teams and Power Automate, and understand governance best practices. Whether you are setting up SharePoint for your organisation or managing an existing environment, this course gives you the practical skills to do it right.

What You Will Learn

  • Create and configure team sites and communication sites in SharePoint Online
  • Design document libraries with metadata, content types, and custom views
  • Configure SharePoint permissions — site, library, folder, and item level
  • Build modern SharePoint pages using web parts for news, documents, and lists
  • Integrate SharePoint with Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, and Power Automate
  • Implement document versioning, approval workflows, and retention policies
  • Manage SharePoint search, navigation, and site collections
  • Apply SharePoint governance best practices for your organisation

Course Modules

  • SharePoint architecture: tenants, site collections, sites, libraries, lists, items
  • Site types: team sites (collaboration) vs communication sites (broadcast)
  • Creating sites: hub sites, sub-sites, site templates — when to use each
  • Document libraries: creating, configuring columns (metadata), content types
  • Library views: standard, Gantt, calendar, board views — creating custom views
  • Versioning: major vs minor versions, check-out, version history, restore
  • Permissions model: permission levels, SharePoint groups, inheritance vs unique
  • Breaking inheritance: when and how to set unique permissions safely
  • Modern SharePoint pages: sections, columns, web parts — News, Hero, File Viewer, Highlighted Content
  • Navigation: hub navigation, quick launch, mega menu customisation
  • Lists: custom lists, choice columns, lookup columns, calculated columns, list views
  • SharePoint + Teams: adding SharePoint tabs to Teams channels, files tab
  • SharePoint + Power Automate: approval workflows, notification flows, document routing
  • SharePoint + OneDrive: sync libraries locally, co-authoring, sharing externally
  • Search: managed properties, content search web part, search centre
  • SharePoint governance: naming conventions, storage quotas, external sharing settings
  • Sensitivity labels and information management policies
  • SharePoint admin centre: site management, hub associations, usage reports

Who Is This Course For?

This course is for business analysts, IT administrators, executive assistants, project managers, knowledge managers, and anyone who has been asked to set up, manage, or improve their organisation's SharePoint environment. Also ideal for Microsoft 365 champions and power users.

Prerequisites

Completion of BITA Microsoft 365 for Business (or experience using SharePoint Online as a regular user). Familiarity with Microsoft Teams and OneDrive is helpful. No SharePoint administration experience is required.

Delivery & Access

  • Blended, online, onsite or on-demand delivery — your choice of format
  • Hands-on labs with real environments
  • Instructor Q&A support for 30 days
  • Verified certificate of completion by BITA
  • Study guides, practice questions and reference materials included