Collaborating With Sharepoint

by Cole, Carey

• ISBN13: 9780558365851
• ISBN10: 055836585X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-08-09
• Publisher: Pearson Learning Solutions

Summary

Online collaboration is an important tool for virtual groups in the business world, and Microsoft SharePoint is the collaborative software suite of choice for many businesses today.Collaborating with SharePointis for anyone who wants an edge in learning to use SharePoint as an online collaboration tool, and it is a useful supplement to any management information systems textbook. SharePoint is not an easy tool to learn, and that is true for both faculty and students. This book introduces users to the tool through step-by-step online collaboration exercises. As they learn the tool, the book moves toward increasingly challenging collaborative problem-solving with fewer instructional details. The exercises inCollaborating with SharePointinclude descriptions and SharePoint screen shots. Videos are available on the Microsoft SharePoint web site to help students with the exercises as well. The book references these videos several times, and there are videos on many other sites that may be useful throughout the book as well. "Help" sections appear at a number of places in each chapter for additional support. The author has also offered to make himself available to instructors for assistance in setting up the SharePoint environment once their accounts are activated.

Author Biography

Carey Cole is a lecturer in the department of Computer Information Systems and Management Science at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He is also a board member of the Shenandoah Technology Council and vice president of web services for the Southeast Decision Sciences Institute. He holds an MS in information systems from Johns Hopkins University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Getting Started: 1

Scavenger Hunt: SharePoint Basics and Navigation 1

Objectives ....................................................................................................................... 1

What are we doing in this Chapter?................................................................................ 1

Business perspective ....................................................................................................... 1

Technical perspective...................................................................................................... 1

What is SharePoint?........................................................................................................ 1

SharePoint Collection ..................................................................................................... 1

SharePoint Site or Sub-Site............................................................................................. 2

Site Hierarchy ................................................................................................................. 2

Lists and Libraries........................................................................................................... 2

Learning to Navigate through the Hierarchy of SharePoint sites ................................... 3

Announcements............................................................................................................... 4

Links ............................................................................................................................... 4

Calendar .......................................................................................................................... 6

Creating a Picture Library............................................................................................... 7

Survey ............................................................................................................................. 7

Scavenger Hunt............................................................................................................... 8

Navigating to the Top and Instructor Site....................................................................... 8

Updating your User Information..................................................................................... 9

Viewing the Instructor’s Calendar and Responding to a Survey.................................. 11

Discussion Board .......................................................................................................... 13

Discussion Board Thread.............................................................................................. 13

Updating a Discussion Board........................................................................................ 13

Replying to a Discussion Thread .................................................................................. 14

End of Chapter Summary.............................................................................................. 16

Chapter 2 Getting Better: 17

Creating and Customizing a Personal Web Site 17

Objectives ..................................................................................................................... 17

What are we doing in this Chapter?.............................................................................. 17

Business perspective ..................................................................................................... 17

Technical perspective.................................................................................................... 17

Personal Web Site ......................................................................................................... 17

Permissions ................................................................................................................... 18

Creating a Personal Web Site ....................................................................................... 19

Customizing your Site................................................................................................... 22

Creating a Discussion Board......................................................................................... 22

Creating a Survey.......................................................................................................... 23

Pictures......................................................................................................................... 26

Creating a Picture Library............................................................................................. 27

Adding a Picture to the Picture Library ........................................................................ 27

Adding a Picture to Your User Information ................................................................. 30

Web Parts...................................................................................................................... 31

Modifying Web Parts.................................................................................................... 31

Using a Picture in a Web Part ....................................................................................... 31

Removing a Web Part ................................................................................................... 34

Adding Web Parts ......................................................................................................... 35

Removing and Adding Announcements ....................................................................... 36

Adding Links ................................................................................................................ 37

Alerts............................................................................................................................ 38

Adding Alerts................................................................................................................ 39

Checking Alerts ............................................................................................................ 41

Deleting a Site or List or Library.................................................................................. 41

End of Chapter Summary.............................................................................................. 41

Chapter 3 Starting to Collaborate: 42

Working as a Group 42

Objectives ..................................................................................................................... 42

What are we doing in this Chapter?.............................................................................. 42

Business perspective ..................................................................................................... 42

Technical perspective.................................................................................................... 42

What is Collaboration? ................................................................................................. 42

Communication............................................................................................................. 43

Wiki Page Library......................................................................................................... 43

Creating a Wiki Page Library ....................................................................................... 43

Editing a Wiki Page ...................................................................................................... 46

Creating a Wiki Page ................................................................................................... 47

Wiki Links .................................................................................................................... 48

Collaborating with a Wiki............................................................................................. 50

Group Setup Steps......................................................................................................... 50

Collaboration Steps....................................................................................................... 51

End of Chapter Summary.............................................................................................. 52

Chapter 4 Collaborating as a Group: 53

Being More Successful 53

Objectives ..................................................................................................................... 53

What are we doing in this Chapter?.............................................................................. 53

Business perspective ..................................................................................................... 53

Technical perspective.................................................................................................... 53

Study Guide Collaboration ........................................................................................... 53

End of Chapter Summary.............................................................................................. 54

Appendix A 55

Setting List or Library Permissions .............................................................................. 55

Appendix B 58

Deleting a Site or Library or List .................................................................................. 58

Deleting a Site............................................................................................................... 58

Deleting Library or List ................................................................................................ 59