09-07-2017 - SharePoint 2013 for End Users - Online, Live

Why Should You Take This SharePoint 2013 for End User Course?

This SharePoint 2013 for End Users course is designed for non-IT personnel that need to administer and edit SharePoint sites from within a web browser. Get the fast facts that make learning Microsoft SharePoint 2013 plain and simple! This course contains easy steps and clear, concise language to learn the simplest ways to get things done. In this course, students will learn to: create libraries for all kinds of media, share information in one location, organize people and processes, connect SharePoint to Microsoft Office with no fuss, find things fast with the Search Center, and expand your community with social networking.

Using Microsoft SharePoint, people can set up Web sites to share information with others, manage documents from start to finish, and publish reports to help everyone make better decisions. The capabilities of SharePoint work together to help your company quickly respond to changing business needs. People can share ideas and expertise, create custom solutions for specific needs, and find the right business information to make better decisions. 

The Following Topics Will Be Covered:

The course will follow the outline of the textbook:

Chapter 1: About this book: 

• What do you want to do today?
• Just essential tasks...A quick overview
• Who this book is meant for?
• A few assumptions
• Adapting task procedures for touchscreens
• A final word (or two) 

Chapter 2: What's New and Improved in SharePoint 2013:

• Creating a new site
• Customizing the interface
• Using the Office Store
• Creating an asset library
• Adding a thumbnail to a video
• Using SkyDrive Pro
• Using the timeline feature for tasks
• Mentioning a colleague feature
• Expanding My Tasks settings
• Previewing search documents
• Using the Community Site template
• Creating badges
• Creating an eDiscovery Center
• Using Visual Designer for workflows within SharePoint Designer

Chapter 3 Getting Started with SharePoint Sites:

• Understanding sites
• Creating a SharePoint site from a template
• Locating content on a site
• Changing your site's title, description, and logo
• Changing the look and feel of a site
• Changing the navigation tree view settings
• Editing the Quick Launch bar on a nonpublishing site
• Editing the Top Link bar on a nonpublishing site
• Editing publishing site navigation
• Saving a site as a template

Chapter 4: Organizing and Managing Information:

• Browsing through site columns
• Creating site columns
• Browsing through content types
• Creating a new content type
• Associating document templates with content types

Chapter 5: List and Library Essentials: 

• Using your apps
• Creating and deleting lists
• Adding and editing list items
• Deleting and restoring list items
• Creating list columns
• Editing and deleting list columns
• Using list and column validation rules
• Sorting and filtering lists
• Creating and selecting a list view
• Sorting or filtering a list view
• Organizing items by using folders

Chapter 6: Working with Documents:

• Managing documents with a document library
• Customizing document templates
• Uploading multiple documents
• Requiring and displaying document check out
• Checking documents in and out
• Configuring documents with document IDs
• Using document IDs
• Moving documents
• Copying or sharing documents
• Configuring document sets on a site
• Configuring document sets on a document library

Chapter 7: Working with Media: 

• Introducing the Asset Library app
• Uploading and tagging media files
• Tagging media files
• Organizing by using keywords and metadata
• Working with video files
• Using SharePoint assets in Microsoft Office
• Adding media to a SharePoint page

 Chapter 8: Using SkyDrive Pro: 

• Accessing your SkyDrive Pro account
• Saving files to SkyDrive Pro
• Saving files to be accessible only to you
• Sharing SkyDrive Pro files
• Following SkyDrive Pro documents
• Locating followed documents by using the newsfeed
• Locating followed documents by using SkyDrive Pro
• Synchronizing SkyDrive Pro to your local computer
• Discontinuing sync between SkyDrive Pro and your local device

Chapter 9: Using Information Management Policies:

• Introduction to information management policies
• Information management policy inheritance
• Accessing site content type information management policies
• Accessing list information management policies
• Creating content type retention policies on a library
• Setting library or folder-based retention schedules
• Creating auditing policies
• Viewing an audit report

Chapter 10: Organizing People and Work: 

• Creating a project schedule by using a tasks list
• Adding tasks Viewing tasks in a Gantt Chart
• Adding multiple tasks and subtasks
• Creating a calendar list
• Scheduling events on the calendar
• Using the issue tracking list
• Creating a discussion board
• Participating in a discussion
• Rating discussions
• Connecting a discussion to Microsoft Outlook
• Synchronizing project tasks with Microsoft Project 

Chapter 11: Using Web Parts: 

• Adding Web Parts to a wiki page
• Adding Web Parts to a Web Part page
• Adding an App Part to a page
• Editing Web Part properties
• Working with personalized Web Parts on pages
• Targeting Web Parts for an audience

Chapter 12: Using SharePoint with Office 2013:

• Connecting SharePoint libraries to Office
• Connecting SharePoint calendars to Outlook A
• rchiving Outlook email in SharePoint
• Importing a spreadsheet into SharePoint
• Exporting data from a SharePoint list to Excel
• Exporting an Excel table to SharePoint
• Connecting Access and SharePoint

Chapter 13: Collaborating with Blogs:

• Creating a blog site
• Changing your blog picture
• Changing your blog description
• Using categories to organize your blogs
• Managing blog posts
• Managing blog comments
• Subscribing to a blog's RSS Feed
• Using desktop blogging tools to publish blog posts

Chapter 14: Security within SharePoint 2013:

• Understanding SharePoint security
• Adding people to groups
• Creating groups
• Granting permissions to an individual
• Breaking permission inheritance
• Granting access to lists, libraries, and individual items
• Removing security
• Editing permissions
• Checking permissions

Chapter 15: Using Personal Sites and Social Networking:

• Introducing My Site
• Editing your user profile
• Uploading content
• Following people
• Searching for people to follow
• Updating your status
• Using your note board
• Using tags Using mentions
• Using tasks Customizing tasks views

Chapter 16: Searching for Information: 

• Creating a Search Center
• Searching from a Search Center
• Preparing your site for search
• Searching site content
• Using search refinement
• Previewing search results in Search Center
• Using advanced search Working with search alerts
• Setting your search preferences
• Promoting search results
• Excluding site content
• Excluding document libraries and lists from search
• Excluding site columns from search
• Maintaining search configurations

Chapter 17: Community Portals and Sites:

• Creating a community site site collection
• Creating a community site subsite
• Adding moderators to community sites
• Adding users to community sites
• Managing your community settings
• Working with categories
• Working with badges
• Assigning badges to members
• Enabling site-wide reputation tracking
• Viewing badges and reputation scores for a member
• Creating and editing discussions
• Replying to a discussion
• Searching for discussions
• Tracking discussions in progress
• Managing replies
• Moderating discussions
• Reviewing posts submitted for moderation

Chapter 18: Automating Tasks with Workflows:

• Associating workflows with lists
• Associating workflows with content types
• Starting workflows on documents
• Checking the status of a running workflow
• Creating a list workflow in SharePoint Designer
• Editing workflows
• Introducing Microsoft Visio integration with SharePoint workflows
• Switching to the visual designer
• Creating workflows in Visio 2013
• Importing Visio workflows into SharePoint Designer

Chapter 19: SharePoint and eDiscovery:

• Creating an eDiscovery Center
• Working with eDiscovery cases
• Identifying and holding content
• Removing an eDiscovery hold
• Accessing deleted content under legal hold
• Creating an eDiscovery query
• Exporting eDiscovery results