Creating a Practice Site

Quick reference

• 00:04 As I mentioned in the introduction, SharePoint is an online application.
• 00:08 What I'm going to walk you through is the process for
• 00:11 creating a practice SharePoint site.
• 00:14 So if you want to follow along with me and practice the skills that we're learning as
• 00:18 we're going through the course, then this might be something that you want to do.
• 00:23 If you don't feel like doing that, and you just want to sit back and
• 00:26 watch the course, that's absolutely fine as well.
• 00:29 But if you would like to create a practice site, let's take a look at how we do that.
• 00:33 And I guess, I am kind of skipping ahead a little bit just here because
• 00:37 I haven't even shown you how to access SharePoint yet.
• 00:40 We're going to be doing that in the next section.
• 00:43 So if you would prefer to watch this lesson after you've seen how to access
• 00:47 SharePoint, then that's totally fine.
• 00:50 So on the screen right now I am logged into my SharePoint account.
• 00:54 And you can see here I'm logged in via Microsoft 365.
• 00:59 Now, we don't want you to worry too much about what we have on the screen just yet.
• 01:02 We're going to get into all of this and it will become a lot more familiar to you.
• 01:07 But for now, all I want to do is show you how to create a quick practice site for
• 01:11 you to use throughout this course, and it's very straightforward.
• 01:16 If we go to the Microsoft start page, and this is where you can see all
• 01:20 of the SharePoint sites that I'm currently following, or
• 01:23 ones that I've accessed recently.
• 01:26 You'll notice just above this list, I have a Create Site button.
• 01:31 So let's give this a good old clickety-click and see what happens.
• 01:35 Well, I only get two choices, I can choose to create a Team site or
• 01:40 I can choose to create a Communication site.
• 01:43 Now, again, I don't want you to focus or worry too much about what
• 01:46 the difference is between these two at the moment, let's just get our site created.
• 01:50 We want to create a Team site, so let's click that big old button.
• 01:54 And the first thing we need to do here is give our team site a name.
• 01:59 Now, normally, this would be related to whatever the site is about, and
• 02:02 I don't really mind what you call your site, you can call it anything you like.
• 02:06 Now, I'm going to give mine a fairly generic name,
• 02:10 let's just call it Deb's Practice site.
• 02:13 You can see the SharePoint does a quick check to make sure that that site name is
• 02:17 available which it is.
• 02:18 If it says that it's unavailable then you're going to need to choose
• 02:21 a different site name.
• 02:22 It gives it a group email address, a site address,
• 02:25 I can add a quick site description.
• 02:27 So I'm going to say, I'm just going to say practice site.
• 02:33 And then I can choose if this is a private or a public site.
• 02:37 So the difference between these two is that if you set your site to public,
• 02:41 it means that anyone in your organization can access the site.
• 02:45 If you set it to private, it means that only members,
• 02:48 and members are essentially people that you invite to your site can access it.
• 02:53 Again, don't worry too much about the differences between these two.
• 02:57 For now, let's just set our site to public and click on Next at the bottom.
• 03:02 And then get the opportunity to add some members to my site.
• 03:06 Now, because we're just creating a practice site for
• 03:09 use in this course, I'm not going to invite anyone to this site.
• 03:12 So we can leave both of these fields empty and just click the Finish button.
• 03:17 And it is as simple as that, you can see there is our practice site ready for
• 03:22 us to start working through this SharePoint course.

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