Create a team site

To create a new team site, all I need to do is to go to SharePoint home, which is this page right here. If you don't know how to get here, you simply click the SharePoint link from any of the pages here in SharePoint Online and you'll end up here. And then choose Create Site. And then we get to choose between a team site and a communication site. We're going to create a couple of communication sites and one team site. And we'll begin with the team site. The business purpose for this site is to create a collaboration space for the new department that is working on wind installations. So I want to create a team site for wind installations. Now note that I have a number of different templates that I can choose from here. So if this site is about crisis communication or employee onboarding, event planning, and so on, I could select one of these. And your organization may have created some templates they also wish you to use, and those would appear here. But I'm going to create a standard team site. On the left, I see information about my site capabilities. I'll be able to view recent team activity, share team news, highlight team content, resources. It comes with one home page standard. Now, we can add more pages later, so we don't need to worry that it only has one to start with. But if this is the template we want to use, we simply click "Use Template". Next, we'll be asked to enter a name for our site, and this is the name that's going to appear across the top of the site. Below that, it says tell people the purpose of the site, and I'm going to indicate that this is a collaboration site for the Wind Installs team. Group email address, this group email aliases available. That's good. And then it says that with some modification, I could use, for example, WindInstallations too. I could also shorten it up to something like WindInstalls because this is going in the URL. And at each point, SharePoint is checking to see, is that site name used elsewhere in my organization. Is this email used for a site elsewhere in my organization? Is this site address used or this URL? That all looks good and even at this point, I could switch templates. There's an icon with a pencil here on the left that I could swap to one of those other templates like crisis communication. This is fine. This is what we want. Click "Next". Now we have our privacy settings, and the privacy settings say, privacy settings indicate who can see the site. By default, a site is private. If you want anyone in the organization to be able to access it, change that to public. But this is a space that's primarily for the work of the people in this team. We can add other people to the site later when we learn about permissions. So for right now, we're going to treat this as a site that's private for the work of this team. Next, choose a language and note you really can't change it later. If you wanted to create a site in another language to see what that looks like, go ahead, but you can't then switch the language to English or Spanish or the primary language that you're using. So this is the one thing that's really pretty locked down that we can't get around. When you've made all of these choices, click "Create Site", and we'll wait for a moment while SharePoint creates and provisions our site. Next, we can add site owners and members to the site, and a really good practice is to immediately add another owner so that if you need to take a day off or you go on vacation, win the lottery, whatever, there's somebody else who can manage this site. It might be that you have a team of people who are available to serve as site owners, or it might be that it's someone who has a position on this team. And I'm going to add Rob Molina to this team. He is a solar installation guy right now, but he will be serving a lead role in this new wind installs team. And I'm going to make Rob the owner because that's appropriate and I've talked to him about it. I'm going to add another person too, and that's Reggie Tupp. And I'm adding Reggie as an owner as well. And the reason I'm doing that is Reggie is my administrative professional. If I wanted to add other members of the team now, I could, but I can do that easily later, too. So we're going to stick with a couple of owners in our new site. I'm going to click the finish button. The site's already been created, the users are being added, and here's our new wind installation site that we created.