Shared Digital Workspaces: Microsoft Groups

Shared workspaces for email, conversations, files, and events where group members can communicate and collaborate. For example, you can request a group for your team and then invite other Office 365 users to join the group to share documents, conversations, meeting notes, and OneNote information related to your specific group.

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Pinned Article Help & Resources: Microsoft Groups

An overview of help and resources for Microsoft Groups.

Applying Metadata to a Page or Document

This article explains how to apply metadata to a SharePoint page or a document in the SharePoint document library.

Best Practices for Microsoft SharePoint Governance

Deployment of SharePoint sites requires organizational planning and oversight. This help article provides best practices for SharePoint governance and assumes a working knowledge of SharePoint. The goal is to provide enough structure to eliminate clutter and duplication while still allowing groups to self-organize and get their work done.

Customizing Your SharePoint Navigation

This article explains how to add and remove pages, links, and labels from your SharePoint site navigation.

Filtering by Metadata & Saving Views

This article informs the reader how to filter by metadata to easily find what is needed, including saving filtered views to access them later.

Getting Started with Microsoft Groups

Learn how to navigate to a Group's OneDrive file space for the first time and how to find it on subsequent visits.

Getting Started with SharePoint Intranet Pages

When you request a Microsoft Team or a Microsoft Group, a SharePoint site is created to store your Team or Group resources. This includes shared files, OneNote notebooks, etc.  Within your SharePoint site you can also create Intranet pages.  These are web pages that are only accessible to the group, or if preferred, to everyone with an OHIO ID.

Moving Documents in Microsoft Teams

To move documents in Microsoft Teams, use 1: Move a Document to Another Document Library (Outside of the Current Team) for cross-team moves, and 2: Move a Document to Another Channel Within the Same Team for organizing within the same team.

Navigating to SharePoint

This article gives step-by-step instructions on how to navigate to your SharePoint site for team collaboration, communication, and team document storage.

Restricting Access to a File/Folder in a SharePoint Document Library

This article gives instructions on how to restrict access to a file or folder in a SharePoint document library.

Understanding Groups

Microsoft 365 (i.e., the set of Microsoft applications that includes SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, etc.) lets you define who is in a group and set up a collection of resources for those people to share. Resources such as a Team in Teams, SharePoint Intranet site, shared Outlook inbox, shared calendar, or a document library for collaborating on files.

Handling sensitive data in OneDrive for employees

Safely store data in Microsoft Groups and OHIO OneDrive accounts.

Handling sensitive data in OneDrive for students

Safely store personal documents in student OneDrive accounts.