Day 2 ("Advanced" Training)

Audience: Site Owners (Full Control - responsible for determining structure of site, etc)
Duration: 2-days

Top Take-Aways for Me (related to my companies SP implementation) :

• Company provided users w/ "Step-by-Step MS WSS 3.0" Book in lieue of official course materials.


• First 3 hours of course was review of the class from the previous day (Beginner's class)


• Many of the attendees of the course were very new to the product, or had used it but were having a lot of trouble with basic functionality, instructor did a good job of accomodating those users

Course Outline:

Section 1: Intro to Sharepoint

What is SharePoint?

• Collaboration


• Central Document Mgmt


• Communication

How is SP used @ this company

Define different components of SP

Section 2: Contributing to a Site (see Beginner's Outline)

• Announcements


• Links


• Calendar


• Tasks


• Document Library


• Discussions


• Surveys

Section 3: Creating & Modifying a Site

Creating a Site

• uses for announcements


• add an announcement


• edit announcements (through drop-down & accessing the announcement directly)


• add alerts (alert me) - applies to all lists & doc libraries

Links

• uses for links


• add a link


• edit links

Deleting Content

• Delete content


• Access deleted content


• Restore content

Calendar

• When you would use this calendar (differs from Outlook calendar)


• add an occurence


• change calendar views

Tasks

• Why/when you use tasks


• Creating tasks (adding owners)


• Altering views

Document Library

• Create a new document (using pre-defined template)


• File naming (no special characters: # % / )


• Uploading single file


• Uploading multiple files


• Versioning (if enabled by Doc Library Owner)


• Opening w/ Windows Explorer


• Placing a Shortcut on Desktop

Discussions

• Post topics for discussion


• Reply to other posts


• Set alerts

Surveys

• Responding to surveys