Differences Between SharePoint, Teams and OneDrive

Course Overview

What you will learn

By the end of this half-day course, you will:

• Understand what SharePoint is and its role in the context of Microsoft 365
• How to navigate the SharePoint and OneDrive interfaces effectively
• Be able to save and access content in OneDrive, including uploading, organising and sharing files
• How to effectively navigate the Files tab in Microsoft Teams, including using breadcrumbs, selecting and sorting files, and opening/editing documents
• Be able to collaborate on documents within Microsoft Teams, including creating new documents, co-authoring, checking documents in/out, and managing version control

Course Timetable

This course will be taught over two 90-minute sessions.

Session 1

Intro: What is SharePoint?

• The Cloud and your data
• Navigating SharePoint
• Concept of permissions
• SharePoint features

Getting started with OneDrive

• What is OneDrive for Business?
• Navigating around the OneDrive Screen
• Saving and accessing content in OneDrive
• Synchronisation using OneDrive
• Sharing files (including Manage Access)

Session 2

Using Microsoft Teams

• The Files Tab (Navigating folders using breadcrumbs, selecting and sorting files, opening & editing documents)
• Working with documents (creating new documents, co-authoring documents, checking documents in/out, version control)
• Pinning documents
• Making a document a tab
• Teams private chat and how it links to OneDrive and the Teams Chats folder

This course is delivered remotely via Zoom, both for public and private groups. Contact us for availability and pricing.

Related courses

This course offers a quick overview of the main features of SharePoint, Teams and OneDrive. If you would like to go into more depth on how to use each one in more detail, Happy offers a variety of courses that you might be interested in.

Introduction to SharePoint: SharePoint is the perfect solution for organisations with remote workers and for keeping files safe, secure and backed up. Find out more

Introduction to Microsoft Teams: Teams is a new way of communicating and storing files, which keeps everything that happens in relation to a team or project in one place. Find out more

Introduction to OneDrive: If you are already fairly confident with using Windows and the Cloud, and just need to find your way around OneDrive, this is the course for you. Find out more

The Small Print

For Live Online Interactive Learning sessions (webinars)

The course will run remotely for a half-day consisting of two 90-minute live online sessions with independent work in between. 

All learners will need to either install Zoom on their machines or use the Web App in a browser (either Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge are supported). Your link will be included in your joining instructions once you have booked your place — if you haven't received this email then please contact our team.

Learners should log into the training session 10 minutes before the start time to ensure that they have downloaded and set up Zoom correctly. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals.

Your active participation is expected: everyone will be heard and seen throughout, just as they would be if we were in a room together. To be heard, hear and seen you will need a microphone, speakers and camera – if you have a modern laptop that’s all you will need. Remember, you’ll need a quiet place to call from and a decent internet connection is a must.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

For classroom sessions

The course will run from 10am to 1pm. Please be careful to arrive by 9.45am for registration and refreshments. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. If you arrive over 30 minutes late you may be asked to leave and attend another day.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

The happy Guarantee

We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.

If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, please get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course. We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.

Coronavirus Update

While we continue to only run our public courses online, we have reinstated classroom-based training for private group bookings only. We can also host you for room hires – please contact us for further details.

We have made our training centre COVID safe. Please see our full Coronavirus guidance page for details.

For the latest government guidance, please visit the gov.uk website.

We will continue to monitor the situation and will advise all clients if the situation changes.

If you have any questions or concerns, or would like to arrange some online training, our friendly team are available Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. You can leave a message on 020 7375 7300 or email us at hello@happy.co.uk.