New to SharePoint? Know how to use a Web browser like Internet Explorer or FireFox? Then this class is for you! It is designed for people with little or zero SharePoint experience who need to get up to speed with SharePoint sites.

Attendees will first start out learning the basics and getting an overview of the entire landscape of a SharePoint site. This begins with a tour of the Web-based interface and exploring the various types of lists and libraries available for collaboration such as Contacts, Tasks, Links, Calendar and document libraries.

In addition this course is for those users who have the responsibility to manage and customize SharePoint sites and site collections up. In this course you will learn the differences between SharePoint site collections and sites and how to effectively leverage each one.

Attendees of this course will also be introduced to SharePoint Features and how to leverage them to provide additional plug-in like functionality to SharePoint sites and site collections. Site collection administrators will also learn how to create and customize content within SharePoint sites using content pages, wiki pages, Web Parts lists and document libraries.

Finally students will learn how to secure sites, lists, libraries and the content within lists and libraries using the permission and security infrastructure in SharePoint. In addition attendees will also learn how to create effectively manage search and leverage the new SharePoint metadata tagging capabilities.

This course is for anyone who has little to no experience with SharePoint from an end user perspective. This includes users, power users, Web masters, site administrators, site collection administrators, project managers, information workers and business analysts. It is also for site collection administrators targets a wide range of users including site administrators, project managers, power users, Web masters and anyone else who will serve in the role of managing sites and site collections.

Attendees should have experience using a Web browser and interacting with Web-based systems as well as hands-on experience with SharePoint 2007 or 2010 from an end user perspective. Experience with Microsoft Office (any version) as well as administrative experience with a previous version of SharePoint is a plus, but not required.  Microsoft Office is necessary to complete several of the labs in the class.