Create a SharePoint site

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Last updated: Sept 06, 2024 by Cory Joyce
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Faculty, staff, and students may create SharePoint sites. To learn how to create a site by yourself, continue down this guide.

Set your site to Private. If your site is set to Public, anyone in the university can add to, edit, or delete your files.

Creating Your Site

Use a team site instead of a communication site when you intend to work with other team members or other users on a given project. Communication sites are meant to be used for broadcasting content that is created by a small group of members, to be accessed by a broad audience. Team sites, on the other hand, enable most or all members to add content to the site while ensuring that access to the information contributed is restricted only to the intended participants (i.e., team or project members and specific stakeholders).

  1. Navigate to s.uconn.edu/sharepoint

  2. Click + Create site at the top of the SharePoint page.

  3.  Select the Team site option and use the ”Standard team” template.

  4. Enter a name for your team site. As you type, you will be able to see whether or not the name you've chosen is available.
    Please try to maintain a naming convention with your department for your SharePoint sites.
    Such as, “ITS - Support Center” or “Neag - Payroll”.
    This name can change at any time.

    1. Group email address: Each SharePoint site will have a unique email address and shared inbox. You may customize that email address here.
      If you do not need a new email address, simply accept the default name.

    2. Site Address: This is the URL of the SharePoint site. Since your site name can change at any time, the URL serves as the unique identifier for your site; you can always find your site by navigating to this URL. The URL cannot be later changed without causing some issues, but it is possible.

  5. Click Next.

    1. Please make your site Private if you do not want to give everyone in the university the option to delete your files.

    2. Select a language for your team site. 

      1. Once you select a default language for your site and create the site, you will not be able to change it to a different language later. However, you will still be able to add alternate supported languages.

    3. Click on Next

    4. Enter the names or email addresses of others you wish to access this site. 

      1. The person creating the site is automatically placed in the Owners group.

      2. Roles:

        1. Owner can edit the site and add/remove users.

        2. Member: full edit access of files. Can add and delete files as well.
          Note: Users can move between roles at any time. You may add users later as well.

  6. Click Finish. Once your site is created, it will appear at s.uconn.edu/sharepoint.

Your site will not inherit the permission settings of other sites. 

Email Confirmation

The email confirmation may take a few minutes to arrive.

If you ever have trouble locating your SharePoint site, use this guide:

Helping others access your site

After you have created your site and invited others, send them to s.uconn.edu/firstsharepoint to help them access the data.

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