Accessing a SharePoint Site

Quick reference

• 00:04 SharePoint is a web-based application.
• 00:07 And so we access SharePoint through a web browser.
• 00:11 And because SharePoint is a Microsoft tool then they do tend to like you to use one
• 00:16 of the Microsoft browsers, so something like Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge.
• 00:22 And throughout this course, I'm going to be using the Microsoft Edge browser.
• 00:26 Even if you use something else like Google Chrome or Firefox, or
• 00:30 maybe Mozilla, that is absolutely fine.
• 00:32 But I do tend to find that when it comes to this type of Microsoft
• 00:36 online application,
• 00:38 it does tend to work a little bit better if you use one of the Microsoft browsers.
• 00:43 But I'll leave that choice entirely up to you.
• 00:46 Now when it comes to accessing a SharePoint site,
• 00:48 there are a couple of different ways that you can get into SharePoint.
• 00:52 The first method is to use a direct link.
• 00:56 And that might be a link to a site that somebody has sent you.
• 01:00 So maybe they've emailed you the link to the site, or
• 01:03 maybe they've posted it in a channel in Teams, something along those lines.
• 01:08 And if you have been sent a link to a SharePoint site, you just need to click it
• 01:12 and as long as you've been given access to that site by the administrator,
• 01:16 you should be able to jump straight into the SharePoint site.
• 01:20 Now when I say link I mean this up here.
• 01:23 So I'm in my practice site.
• 01:26 And if you take a look in the URL bar at the top,
• 01:29 that is the link directly to this site.
• 01:32 So if I want my colleague Mary down the corridor to add some content
• 01:36 into this site, I can just email her this particular link.
• 01:40 Now the other way to access SharePoint if you don't have a link is simply through
• 01:45 the Microsoft 365 online portal.
• 01:48 Let me show you what I mean.
• 01:50 Now if you are a Microsoft 365 user,
• 01:52 then you should be fairly familiar with logging into the portal.
• 01:55 If you go to office.com, login with your credentials, your email address and
• 02:00 your password, it's going to take you to the Office 365 start screen.
• 02:05 And this is where you can access all of your Office applications.
• 02:09 And you can see them, they're running all the way down the left hand side.
• 02:12 And the applications that you see here really do depend on the type
• 02:17 of Microsoft 365 subscription that you have.
• 02:20 So just for your reference, I'm using a Business Standard account.
• 02:25 So in this big long list of applications just over halfway down,
• 02:29 I can see SharePoint.
• 02:31 If you're finding it a little bit difficult to see it,
• 02:34 click on the App Launcher at the top.
• 02:36 And then I can see, there we go, SharePoint in the middle, click it and
• 02:41 it's going to take me directly into SharePoint.
• 02:44 I'm now at the start screen and
• 02:46 I can choose which one of my SharePoint sites I'd like to jump into.

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