SharePoint Training Courses

If you’re attending online or we’re running the course at your offices, your IT department needs to set up some access for you before the course.

This doesn’t apply to courses at our London or Guildford training centres, where everything is set up for you.

Our SharePoint courses are hands-on. During the day you’ll create document libraries, lists and pages, and change permissions, so you need the right level of access in your own organisation’s SharePoint.

For Level 1 (End Users) and Level 2 (Content Authors), your IT department will need to:

• Create a Training Site for you to use during the course.
• Assign you Site Owner status on that site (also known as Full Control).
• Make sure you have the access rights to create a site and update permissions.

For Level 3 (Site Owners), you’ll need all of the above, plus:

• Access to SharePoint Admin

This Microsoft SharePoint class is for complete beginners. You do not need any previous experience with SharePoint to attend.

It is designed for people who will be:

1. Using SharePoint to share documents.
2. Collaborating with colleagues using a team site.
3. Creating surveys and simple workflows.
4. Going on to attend our Administrator course and need to master the basics.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

1. Confidently navigate SharePoint and understand how it interfaces with Office 365 and OneDrive for business.
2. Create new shared documents, folders, lists, libraries and events.
3. Create and modify team sites.
4. Install and use the SharePoint app on a mobile device.

This SharePoint training course is for people who are already SharePoint users and want to develop their skills further.

It is designed for people who will be power users and responsible for the administration of team sites.

When rolling out a new SharePoint implementation, companies often allocate a power user or site owner to each department to help with user adoption. This means that simpler issues with a SharePoint implementation can be dealt with without waiting for help from your IT department.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

1. Understand site hierarchy and SharePoint integration points with Microsoft Office.
2. Configure and control site security including Active Directory integration, assigning roles to users and authenticating users.
3. Create team sites using site templates and permissions inheritance.
4. Create, manage and customise forms, document libraries and SharePoint content types.
5. Creating a SharePoint website.

This SharePoint course is for people who manage their own SharePoint sites and content, but are not full Microsoft 365 administrators in their organisation.

It’s ideal for departmental site owners, intranet editors, project site administrators and delegated IT or business administrators.

Many organisations give each department a site owner to look after its SharePoint sites. This course gives you the skills to handle the day-to-day admin tasks yourself, like managing access, changing site settings and recovering deleted content, without waiting for your IT team.

It is designed for people who will be:

1. Responsible for one or more SharePoint sites in their team or department.
2. Adding and removing users and controlling who can access sites, libraries and files.
3. Setting up and maintaining document libraries, lists and pages.
4. Making sure their sites are secure, well organised and follow good governance.
5. The first point of contact when colleagues have SharePoint access or sharing problems.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

1. Understand SharePoint site architecture and decide when to create a new site or re-use an existing one.
2. Manage users, groups and permissions to control access securely across sites, libraries and content.
3. Configure document libraries and lists, including metadata, views, versioning and permissions.
4. Create, manage and publish modern SharePoint pages and site navigation.
5. Apply site settings, branding, storage management and governance best practices.
6. Troubleshoot common permissions and sharing issues and recover deleted files, pages and lists.

Our courses can be run at your offices, at one of our training centres in London and Guildford or online.

Our online remote courses can be run using either Zoom or Microsoft Teams and have been designed to re-create the classroom experience as closely as possible.

It is a live training session using Zoom or Teams and the trainer is there throughout.

The training is still hands-on, so you do need to have the software installed on your own computer.

Learners can ask questions at any time throughout the day as you would in a physical classroom.

Yes we do.

We frequently run in-house courses for companies, and individuals who want to focus on a specific part of SharePoint.

SharePoint is a central digital library for all your Company’s documents and information. It lets you store, share, and collaborate on files with colleagues. It makes finding what you need much faster, keeps you and your team organised and makes sure you’re working on the right version of the document.

The primary benefits of SharePoint are its collaboration benefits.

• It solves the common problem of endless email attachments and multiple document versions cluttering shared drives. SharePoint allows everyone to work on the same live file, avoiding endless duplication.
• It has much more secure and controlled sharing options helping to keep sensitive information protected.

Yes data is very safe. SharePoint is a Microsoft product, meaning it comes with robust, enterprise-level security which makes it simple to protect your information.

Our courses include sections on security best practices when sharing documents and managing access to files.

Learning a new tool always take a little time but once you have got the hang of SharePoint which shouldn’t take more than a few days it will make you more efficient by making things simpler to manage and control. For example, document management becomes dramatically simpler when you only have one or two copies of a document to keep track of.

Teams find the SharePoint significantly improves teamwork and simplifies
information sharing. Having a central information repository reduces
miscommunication substantially and allows everyone to access up to date
documents, see project updates, and contribute in one central, organised place.

SharePoint also contains a team newsfeed which is especially useful for distributed teams.

SharePoint lets you to create dedicated project sites where everything relevant to a specific project can be stored. It can contain spreadsheets, proposals, reports, meeting notes and other project documents in one place.

Its version control tools make sure that everyone is always working on the most up-to-date document and makes sharing specific files with individual team members or external partners simple and secure.

Yes, because it makes looking for things much simpler.
SharePoint allows you to search the names and contents of files using simple keywords which avoids the frustration of searching emails and messy shared network drives.

SharePoint’s has built-in version management. It automatically tracks every change made to a document and keeps a history of all previous versions. It lets you see who made what changes, and even revert to an older version if needed.

SharePoint lets you manage external link sharing securely. You can grant specific permissions to outside individuals, only giving them access to the specific documents or folders they need, without compromise your internal company files. Our training covers the best practices for safe external collaboration.

Yes SharePoint is designed to be a modern, more powerful replacement for
traditional shared drives. It’s other benefits like co-authoring, automatic version control, and improved security all sit on top of its ability to act as a central file store.

Yes its incredibly quick. Navigate to your document in SharePoint, click the “Share” button and enter the names of the team members you’d like to share with and that’s it!

Sharing externally is also still very quick. You can generate a secure link with specific permissions (like “view only” or “edit”) and send it via email or Microsoft Teams by right clicking on a folder, setting the permissions and inserting the persons email.