SharePoint Overview for End Users (50352)

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About this Course

This 3-day instructor-led course explores all the new end user features exposed in SharePoint 2010.

Audience Profile

Anyone that works with SharePoint team sites, libraries, lists and items.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

  • Explore every new aspect that will be visible to an end user in SharePoint 2010.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

  • Understanding of SharePoint 2007 basics.

Course Outline

Module  1: Overview

A simple introduction module.
 
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Understand your course, classroom, classmates, facility and instructor.

Module 2: SharePoint Introduction

In this module, we are going to answer the all important questions of "What" and "Why" should we be using SharePoint. We are also going to look at the new and exciting features of SharePoint 2010!

Lessons

  • What’s New in SharePoint 2010
  • End User Adoption
  • What is SharePoint?
  • Why SharePoint?
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Describe the major components of SharePoint 2010
  • Describe the new features and capabilities of SharePoint 2010 as compared to 2007
  • Describe what business problems SharePoint 2010 can address

Module  3: Collaboration Experience

In this module we take a look at common features of the basic SharePoint site.  Throughout this course we will create and manage several different pieces of content and the team site will be our site of choice for doing this!  Understanding this site is the center piece of understanding SharePoint and applying it to your everyday life!

Lessons

  • New SharePoint Features

Lab : User interface

  • UI Improvements
  • Create Page
  • Ribbon
  • Wiki Capabilities
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Describe the new UI features of SharePoint 2010
  • Understand how the Ribbon works

Module  4: Lists

In this module, we are going to take a look at lists from a end user standpoint, but also very quickly from a database standpoint as well.  We will talk about the new lists of SharePoint 2010 and what things have changed when working with any type of list.

Lessons

  • SharePoint 2010 Features
  • Lists

Lab : AssetLibrary

  • Use new Asset Library
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Describe and use the new Asset Library
  • Understand when to use a List and when to use a Database
  • How to use and create Document Sets
  • Learn to create External Lists

Module  5: List Management

We explored the types of lists that come out of the box in the last module.  In this module, we will explore how to manage those lists!

Lessons

  • List Management

Lab : NewFeatures

  • Multi-Document Actions
  • Turn On Document Sets
  • Column Level Validation
  • List Level Validation
  • Content Ratings
  • Audience Targeting
  • Metadata Navigation
  • Manage Item Scheduling
  • Document ID Service
  • Generate file plan report
  • Record declaration settings
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Multi-Document Actions
  • UseColumn\List Level Validation
  • UseContent Ratings
  • UseAudience Targeting
  • UseMetadata Navigation
  • UseManage Item Scheduling
  • UseDocument ID Service
  • Usefile plan reports
  • UseRecord declaration settings

Module  6: Permissions

In this module we take a look at SharePoint permissions.  We will learn about SharePoint groups, permission levels, permissions and explore the new Permission Finders.

Lessons

  • SharePoint Permissions

Lab : SharePoint Permissions

  • Permission Finder
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • What is means to say permissions are cumulative
  • Understand that SharePoint has no deny
  • How to use the Permission Checker

Module  7: SharePoint Foundation Site Definitions

In this module we are going to review the SharePoint Foundation site definitions.

Lessons

  • SharePoint Foundation Sites

Lab : Foundation Site Definitions

  • Create Group Work Site
  • Create Visio Process Site
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Understand how to create and what a Group Work site is
  • Understand how to create and what a Visio Process Repository site is

Module  8: SharePoint Server Site Definitions

In this module we will explore each of the site definitions that come with SharePoint Server.

Lessons

  • SharePoint Server Site Definitions

Lab : Server Site Definitions

  • Use the Publishing Portal
  • Use the Records Center
  • Use the Search Center
  • Use Business Intelligence Center
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Describe each of the SharePoint Server site definitions
  • Be able to effectively use the SharePoint Server site definitions

Module  9: Office Integration

In this module we are going to take a look at how SharePoint and Office interact.

Lessons

  • Office Integration
  • SharePoint Workspace 2010
  • Web Applications

Lab : Office Integration

  • Offline Document Libraries
  • Manipulating Calendars (two-way update, roll-up view)
  • Manipulating Tasks
  • Manipulating Contacts
  • Excel Data Reporting
  • Access Data Reporting
  • One Note
  • SharePoint Workspace

Lab : Office Web Applications

  • Explore Office Web Applications

Lab : Access Services

  • Explore Access Services

Lab : Visio Servcies

  • Explore Visio Services

Lab : Office and BCS

  • Explore Office and BCS Integration
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Describe how SharePoint integrates with Office (from SharePoint and to SharePoint)
  • How to describe and use Office Web Applications
  • How to describe and use Access Services
  • How to describe and use Visio Services

Module  10: My Site

In this module we will review the SharePoint MOSS feature called My Site!

Lessons

  • My Site
  • What is Social Computing

Lab : MySite

  • Create your my Site
  • Your Profile
  • Colleagues
  • Colleagues - Tracking Changes
  • Explore Memberships
  • Explore In Common With
  • Documents
  • My Blog
  • My Tags and Notes
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Describe what a My Site is
  • How to create and modify a My Site
  • How to work with My Site social networking features
  • How to protect yourself in the Social Computing realm