SharePoint 2013 Power User Fast Track

$995 | Hands-on | 20 hours | FlexClass Format

What to expect:

• 20 hours of expert instruction and hands-on experience taking you from square one to SharePoint Power User by teaching you SharePoint capabilities that most users don’t even know exist!
• The perfect mix of video presentations, demonstrations, and a dedicated virtual lab environment
• A comprehensive course manual developed by the SharePoint experts at PremierPoint Solutions, rather than generic\biased vendor-developed curriculum
• An experienced instructor to help you get started and to answer questions via email as you work through the course

You will learn how to:

• Understand the concepts and terminologies unique to SharePoint 2013
• Create, organize, discover, and share information with SharePoint 2013
• Use SharePoint 2013 for Enterprise Content Management
• Use the social computing features in SharePoint 2013
• Create powerful user-friendly forms with InfoPath
• Create Business Intelligence displays using Excel Services

Benefits to you and your organization:

• Workplace-ready SharePoint skills
• Proficiency and confidence to use SharePoint’s features effectively
• The skill to create, customize, and maintain SharePoint 2013 sites
• Understanding of, and ability to competently use, SharePoint’s key components and features:
  • Site Collections and Sites
  • Lists and Libraries
  • Columns and Views
  • Web Parts
  • Document Management features
  • Social Computing features
  • Digital forms and Workflow
  • Business Intelligence and Excel Services
  • Content Types
  • Managed Metadata
  • Web Content Management
  • And much, much more

Module 1: Introduction to SharePoint 2013

View, tour, and explore the SharePoint 2013 interface

Module 2: Document Libraries

• The purpose and function of Libraries
• Creating a Library
• Storing documents by uploading them to SharePoint 2013
• Creating and editing Metadata columns
• Why Metadata is a critical choice
• The purpose and function of Views
• Creating, editing, and using Views
• Outlook connections

Module 3: Office Web Applications

• The purpose and function of Office Web Applications
• Co-authoring with Office Web Apps
• Notes, change tracking, and embedding presentations

Module 4: Basic Document Management

• Major and Minor versions of documents
• Draft, publishing, and approving documents
• Document check-in and check-out
• Restoring deleted documents

Module 5: Lists

• List vs. Library
• List templates
• Customizing Lists

Module 6: Pages and Web Parts

• Wiki pages vs. Web Part pages
• Creating, editing, and deleting pages
• Creating, editing, and deleting Web Parts

Module 7: Creating and Managing Sites

• Site hierarchy, Site Collections, and inheritance
• Creating, editing, and deleting a site
• Site Templates
• Creating and editing site navigation

Module 8: Security

• SharePoint Groups and Permissions levels
• Site Owners, Members, and Visitors
• Customizing Security
• SharePoint 2013 “share” buttons
• Testing permissions

Module 9: Social Computing

• My Profile and My Site
• Newsfeeds and Yammer
• Site Newsfeeds
• Hashtags
• “Following” people, documents, Libraries, Lists, and Sites
• Skydrive vs SkyDrive Pro
• Synchronizing Libraries

Module 10: Enterprise Search

• Search Refiners
• Keywords, Best Bets, and Query Rules
• People Search
• Search Alerts
• Content Search Web Part

Module 11: Calendars

• Adding and editing Calendars
• Calendars vs. Lists
• Calendar Overlays
• Calendars and Outlook

Module 12: Tasks

• Task Lists vs. Lists
• Timeline and Gantt Views
• My Site task integration
• Newsfeed items turned into tasks

Module 13: Alerts and RSS

• Creating, editing, and deleting Alerts on items, lists, and libraries
• RSS feeds from SharePoint lists and libraries
• Using Outlook or Internet Explorer to track RSS feeds

Module 14: Surveys

• Creating, editing, and deleting Surveys
• Logical branching using question responses
• Reporting on Surveys

Module 15: Communities

• Creating, configuring, and editing Communities
• Discussions in Communities
• Social capabilities of Communities
• Categories, levels, and badges
• Community moderation

Module 16: Customizing Navigation and Look-and-Feel

• Customizing Global (Top Link Bar) and Current (Quick Launch) navigation
• Site themes, icons, colors, and fonts

Module 17: Content Types

• Creating, editing, and deleting Site Columns
• Creating, editing, and deleting Content Types
• Inheritance
• Using Content Query Web Part for easy cross-site sharing

Module 18: Workflow

• Creating, editing, and deleting a Workflow
• Out-of-the-box Workflows
• Adding Workflows to Lists and Libraries
• User interaction with Workflows

Module 19: Rich Media Management

• Media Management storage and features with SharePoint 2013
• Embedding media stored in SharePoint

Module 20: Managed Metadata

• Creating, editing, managing, and deleting Managed Metadata with the Term Store Service
• Applying Managed Metadata to Lists and Libraries
• Managed Metadata site navigation
• Metadata navigation and filtering

Module 21: Publishing and Web Content Management

• Purpose, function, and advantages of using Publishing Features
• Publishing Pages and Page Layouts
• Publishing Approval Workflows
• Brief Introduction to Design Manager and Device Channels

Module 22: Audience Targeting

• Targeting navigation and Web Parts to groups of individuals
• Creating dashboards using Audience Targeting
• Using the Content Query Web Part to target specific items for display from Lists and Libraries

Module 23: Document Sets

• Creating, editing, and deleting Document Sets
• Adding Document Sets to Libraries
• Special features of Document Sets that make them VERY useful

Module 24: InfoPath

• Introduction to InfoPath and why it’s important

Module 25: Excel Services

• Excel Services and Business Intelligence

Module 26: Central Administration

• Introduction to Central Administration
• Discussion of advanced SharePoint administration functions

This course is designed for users who are already comfortable working with browser-based business applications.

If this is you, all that is needed is to bring to class a desire to learn SharePoint 2013!