Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Assess workspace needs about users, permissions, requirements, site purpose, traffic and use.
• Create plan for workspace sites
• Apply strategies for creating, managing and storing data on collaborative websites.
• Understand and apply tools for effective workflow.
• Create pages and sites to solve specific business problems.
• Apply basic usability principles to design workspaces.
• Apply RTF and HTML formatting to enhance pages and announcements.
• Apply collaborative tools to enhance web-based teamwork.
• Create and use images to enhance worksites.
• Create libraries to manage information appropriately and effectively with forms, wikis, blogs, pictures and documents.
• Design and manage discussion boards.
• Create and apply strategies to enhance online discussions.
• Track calendars and project plans by task
• Apply basic project management principles to effectively manage tasks.
• Design and distribute surveys, collect results and present results effectively on a workspace.
• Import items from other programs to a collaborative web-site to integrate applications and create efficient workflows
• Create forms to gather information and present it.
• Set user and group permissions appropriate for team roles
• Collaborate effectively with others in workspaces
• Manage multiple workspaces effectively.
• Customize workspaces offline using software tools
• Identify effective use of workspaces and ineffective workspace practices and create solutions that enhance team productivity.
• Apply effective group and team practices to the creation and use of online workspaces.
• Create dashboards for effective data display.
• Implement a SharePoint solution in the workplace
• Research resources to solve problems independently