There are five different teamsite types that you will able to choose from; all have slightly different features that have been designed with the business needs of the School in mind. All teamsites come pre-provisioned with several ‘apps’ and document libraries already installed.
As a nominated Site Owner, you will be able edit or remove these features to suit you. Once you have decided which features will be most useful to you or your colleagues enter your choice on your request a SharePoint site form.
- Academic Department teamsite
- Administration Division teamsite
- Research Centre teamsite
- Project site teamsite
- Document Management teamsite
Teamsite features and apps
Document management is at the heart of SharePoint as you can store content in a centrally managed repository that enables people to find, share and collaborate on documents.
Document libraries serve as the storage area for all your documents and you can have more than one library if you wish to divide your work into separate areas.
All teamsites contain document libraries.
The calendar on your SharePoint site will allow your colleagues to view common schedules and dates.
You can store team events including meetings, team milestones or deadlines, annual leave or social events.
Use a contacts list to store information about people or groups that you work with.
A contacts list doesn't actually manage the members of your site, but it can be used to store and share contacts for your team or department, such as a list of emergency contacts or contacts for external stakeholders.
You can add a list of tasks to your site that enables you to use your site as a simplified method for managing a project.
A task list enables the team to track ownership of tasks; their progress; and can be as simple as a checklist of things that need to get done, or it can be more involved with start and finish dates, relationships with other tasks, and other associated task information.
Use an announcements list to share news and status and to provide reminders.
Announcements can support enhanced formatting with images, hyperlinks, and formatted text.
Newsfeed app is a social networking feature that allows you to post comments, share updates and ask questions of colleagues.
You can observe or participate in feeds in the different SharePoint sites you are following. Newsfeeds come as standard on the landing page of your site.
Using SharePoint apps
IMT have tested and piloted some of the functionality that we know will be most useful to people. Rather than wait until we have piloted and tested every type of functionality, we are launching now so you can start to use SharePoint for collaborative working.
We have not removed all the apps that are available on SharePoint. This will mean you can still add apps to your SharePoint site, but we may not be able to support you in using these apps. We strongly advise you to only add apps that have been tested and will be supported by us.
In the long-term, we will access which apps are most useful or popular to people and ensure that we correspondingly support those apps. In the meantime, here is a list of the apps that we currently support and offer training guidance for:
- Document libraries
- Announcements
- Calendar
- Contacts
- Tasks
- Newsfeeds
- Create an LSE subsite