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SharePoint is an industry leading suite of collaboration and communication tools that are designed to enhance information sharing and gathering by all groups and teams within UVic's dynamic community. SharePoint provides online portals for on-campus groups that can be customized to contain document libraries, meeting spaces, blogs, wikis, and more. Users must login with a NetLink ID and access to SharePoint sites is controlled by site administrators.
A number of online tutorials covering a variety of tasks pertaining to SharePoint can be found below. In-person SharePoint training is also available.
Getting started
- Request a SharePoint site
- Create a new SharePoint site (also available as a PDF)
- Access a SharePoint site (also available as a PDF)
- Introduction to SharePoint (also available as a PDF)
- Using the Content Editor Web Part in SharePoint (also available as a PDF)
Customize your site
- Apply site themes in SharePoint
- Change the icon beside your SharePoint site title (also available as a PDF)
- Customize the Quick Launch menu (also available as a PDF)
- Customize the top link bar (also available as a PDF)
- Show or hide tree view (also available as a PDF)
- Create, modify, delete, and select SharePoint list views (also available as a PDF)
Managing documents
- Open and edit a file in SharePoint (also available as a PDF)
- Connect your document library to Windows Explorer
- Recover deleted items
- Versioning in SharePoint (also available as a PDF)
Permissions and security
- Manage permissions and security in SharePoint (also available as a PDF)
- Hierarchy and inheritance (also available as a PDF)
- Permission levels and types in SharePoint
- View permissions for users and SharePoint groups
- Assign user permissions in SharePoint
- Create a new SharePoint group and assign permissions
- Remove user permissions
- Inherit permissions for an item
- Break permissions inheritance on a list or library
- Edit permissions assignments on permission levels
Calendars and meeting spaces
How-tos
- Access a SharePoint site
- Add an event to your SharePoint calendar
- Add a user to your SharePoint site
- Apply site themes in SharePoint
- Assign user permissions in SharePoint
- Break permission inheritance on a list or library
- Change the icon beside your SharePoint site title
- Connect your document library to Windows Explorer
- Create a new SharePoint calendar
- Create a new SharePoint group and assign permissions
- Create series items in a SharePoint meeting space
- Customize the default SharePoint calendar
- Customize the Quick Launch menu
- Customize the top link bar
- Edit permission assignments on permission levels
- Hierarchy and inheritance
- Inherit permissions for an item
- Introduction to SharePoint
- Manage permissions and security in SharePoint
- Open and edit a file in SharePoint
- Open a SharePoint calendar with Outlook
- Permission levels and types in SharePoint
- Recover deleted items
- Remove user permissions
- SharePoint list views
- SharePoint training sessions
- Show or hide tree view
- Using the Content Editor Web Part in SharePoint
- Versioning in SharePoint
- View permissions for users and SharePoint groups
- Working with SharePoint Calendars