SharePoint Online Best Practices, How-To's, and Support Information


SharePoint Online is a browser-based application that allows you to drag and drop documents, customize searchable metadata, create workflows resulting in emails or notifications, create bulletin boards, share calendars, and much more. It is an incredibly powerful tool that can be as simple or as complex as you wish.

SharePoint is accessible from the Office 365 portal; sign in with your Yale email address and password.

Each SharePoint site currently comes with 25 TB of file storage space.

Best Practices

Best Practices for data storage in collaborative file services

Best Practices when sharing files

File Storage Use Cases and Tips

Collaboration Best Practices in Microsoft 365

General

What is SharePoint?

What is a SharePoint hub site?

SharePoint Training Videos

SharePoint Help & Learning 

Create a SharePoint site

Share a SharePoint site

Add or Remove Members on a SharePoint Site

SharePoint file sharing and membership controls

Restrictions and limitations in OneDrive and SharePoint

Check your available storage in SharePoint

File Sharing

SharePoint file sharing and membership controls

External Users' Experience with Yale's Shared Data Links from OneDrive, SharePoint, or Teams

Share SharePoint files or folders

Create an alert to be notified of file or folder changes

File Management

Document collaboration and co-authoring

Move or copy files in SharePoint

How to customize your SharePoint website

Manage large lists and libraries

Request Sign-off on a document in OneDrive, SharePoint, or Microsoft Teams

Understanding permission levels

Fix problems opening documents in SharePoint libraries

Create and use modern pages

Restore previous versions of a file

Restore deleted items

Help & Support

If you experience an issue or have a question contact the ITS Help Desk at 203-432-9000 or visit the website to view answers to trending questions, search how-to articles, start a chat, or report a problem.