This workshop is for those who are new, or early, to SharePoint and Teams. We'll take you from basic skills, to creating and designing Teams and Team Sites in a single day.

Attendees will start by learning the basics of document management with OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams. You’ll then create Teams, then a departmental site, and a home page using Modern SharePoint, then integrate it all using the latest Microsoft Viva solutions.

You’ll also learn how to:
• Link SharePoint Teams and Team Sites to your intranet by creating Hub sites
• How to work with Document Libraries to make it easier to know where to go to store (and find) documents
• Integrate your SharePoint home with Teams using Viva Connections and other components of Viva
• Use best practice governance and information architecture concepts for your Teams and Sites to keep content organized and simple
• The basics of SharePoint and Teams security management
• If you’re new to modern SharePoint sites, want to learn about Viva, or are migrating your classic SharePoint to modern –this is a can’t-miss full-day session.

MODULE 1: OneDrive, Teams and SharePoint
• Introduction to document and file management in Microsoft 365
• OneDrive vs Teams vs SharePoint – when to use each
• Using Copilot to Talk to Your Documents
• Migrating your file shares or other document systems to Microsoft 365
• Microsoft Teams power user tips for chats, calls, channels, posts and telephony
• Microsoft Teams – creating and managing teams
• Making decisions on private, public or org-wide teams
• The basics of Teams security and governance

MODULE 2: Team and Site Design
• Creating a Team and Designing a SharePoint Team Site
• Using Copilot as your design partner
• Understanding the connection between Teams and SharePoint
• Working with different types of channels: standard, private, shared
• Setting up a Hub Site
• Design and Planning Best Practices
• Working with News, Events, and other standard web parts
• Using Copilot to create news
• Document Libraries and Metadata -what it is and when to use it
• Creating and Managing Views

MODULE 3: SharePoint Security
• The security hierarchy
• Inheriting and breaking security
• Security best practices
• Changing and maintaining security settings

MODULE 4: Teams Apps
• Working with Approvals
• Virtual Appointments
• Teams Updates

MODULE 5: Automation with Microsoft Lists
• Microsoft Lists
• Learn to setup a List for Issue tracking and management
• Working with List Views
• Integrating Lists with SharePoint Sites and Teams

MODULE 6: Microsoft VIVA
• About the Viva Apps – Connections, Engage, Topics, Learning, Insights, Goals, Sales, Pulse
• Setting up Viva Connections
• Working with Viva Engage