Create a SharePoint site
Faculty, staff, and students may create SharePoint sites in order to store departmental and group data. There are two ways to create a SharePoint site, depending on whether or not your site should include a Teams team:
Set your site to Private. If your site is set to Public, anyone in the university can add to, edit, or delete your files. Content from public sites may also appear in Copilot and Microsoft search results.
SharePoint with Teams
You can create a SharePoint site in Teams to combine your file storage with all of the features of Teams.
Every team in Teams has a SharePoint site behind it to hold shared files. Learn more here: https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/26264043728
Visit Teams
You can use the Teams app on your computer, or use Teams on the web at https://teams.microsoft.com.
In the left menu, click on Teams.
If this button brings you directly to a team, click on < All teams in the top left corner.
In the top right corner, click Join or create team, then click Create team.
If you don’t see a Join or create team button, look in the drop-down menu at the top of your Teams list and click New team there.
Choose a template for your team. The suggested templates all contain the same features.
Choose the Private privacy level.
If a team is not Private, anyone at the University can view, edit, and delete the files in your Team’s SharePoint site. Your Team’s files may also appear in Copilot and Microsoft search results if they are Public.
Give your team a name. Be sure to use a specific and/or unique name.
Add other people to your team and set their access level (owner or member):
Members can add, edit, and delete files.
Owners can do everything Members can do, plus add or remove Members.
ITS recommends at least 2 owners for any team or group so your co-owner can assist with managing the resource if you are away.
Save when complete, and your SharePoint site will be available within a few minutes!
To view your SharePoint site in the web, navigate to the team in Teams and click on the Files tab.
Click on the ellipsis (…) in the File tab’s menu bar, then click Open in SharePoint.
Your SharePoint site will open in your default web browser.
SharePoint without Teams
A SharePoint site without Teams can be connected to Teams at any point after creation.
If you would like to create a SharePoint that is not connected to a Teams team, you can do so using Outlook. Every Microsoft 365 Group has its own SharePoint site. Your SharePoint will not be accessible through Teams.
Visit https://outlook.office.com/groups
You will see any Groups you currently own or are a member of, but you may not see any if you aren’t in any Groups yet.
Click New Group in the top left corner
Name your Group. This will also be your SharePoint site’s name. Be sure to create a specific and/or unique name.
You may come to own many SharePoint sites in the future; if you use distinguishable names now, it will make management easier in the future.
Add others to your Group and set their access level (owner or member):
Members can add, edit, create, and delete files.
Owners can do everything Members can do, plus add or remove Members.
Be sure to add at least one co-owner to your Group/site so they can assist with managing it if you are away.
Click to finish, and your SharePoint site will be available in a few minutes!
To view your SharePoint site in a web browser, click on the Files tab in the Group.
Click on the ellipsis (…) in the File tab’s menu bar, then click Open in SharePoint.
This will bring you to your SharePoint site in your default web browser.