SharePoint Governance Training - UK Wide

Introduction to SharePoint Governance

This SharePoint Governance training course is suitable for managers and stakeholders who need to understand all the major considerations involved in deploying SharePoint Governance across an organisation prior to the implementation of SharePoint or to retrospectively take control over governance. The course is suitable for those using any of the Microsoft supported versions of SharePoint from standalone distributed versions through to SharePoint Online.

Email us or call 0844 493 3699 to find out more about booking SharePoint training for your team.

The Sharepoint Governance training course is a two-day, instructor-led event which will be delivered on-site at your premises (anywhere in mainland UK) meaning that during the course of the day we can address specifically your particular organisational needs. We will provide all courseware and reference materials electronically to use for reference.

This course is suitable for all supported versions of Sharepoint including 2016, 2019, 2021 and SharePoint Online.

We have mobile SharePoint consultant trainers who deliver SharePoint learning events throughout mainland UK including popular locations such as London, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff and everywhere inbetween.

What is SharePoint Governance?

If you consider SharePoint to be the digital embodiment of your entire organisation, then you simply cannot afford not to have SharePoint Governance in place.

SharePoint Governance is a set of systematic and consistent rules and directives that are applied globally across an organisation from the top down to ensure compliancy and best practice at every level, from business-wide through to sites, departments and teams and the individual roles and responsibilities of users and administrators.

SharePoint Governance should be your first consideration when planning to deploy SharePoint and Microsoft 365 across your organisation. Having a governance plan in place which is documented, controlled and managed not only helps to ensure that your workforce and working practices keep compliant with internal policies and external regulations, it can also help considerably with the consistent rollout, use and understanding of SharePoint leading to a much smoother adoption and more ethusiastic engagement.

When planning your SharePoint Governance you will also need to consider the implications and impacts of its integration with other platforms and services within the Microsoft 365 suite of business applications.

On-site SharePoint Governance Training in the United Kingdom

These are corporate in-house training courses conducted at your workplace for small groups and are exceptional value and very popular. You will usually need to book at least one month in advance and prices are inclusive for up to six delegates. We can attend anywhere in the UK (for overseas requirements, please enquire). On rare ocassions travel supplements may apply for SharePoint training in Central London to cover additional expenses such as congestion charges, but we will endeavour to waive these when possible.

Our 'face-to-face' closed courses for SharePoint Governance are delivered as private courses for your delegates offering more flexibility than off-the-shelf public courses and topics taught can often be tailored to match your learning needs. One of our trainers will discuss your training requirements with you prior to the course.

Live Virtual Classroom SharePoint Governance Courses, UK and Beyond

If you have a group of staff that you would prefer to be tutored remotely rather than having a trainer come out to you these small-group SharePoint courses are also available Online as live virtual, interactive training sessions from the comfort of your own office or workplace. These live, instructor-led virtual courses are taught via Microsoft Teams.

Why choose virtual learning? As we are all becoming more used to Online learning and live virtual meetings it has become apparent that the virtual classroom method of delivery has many advantages over traditional face-to-face learning venues.

If you are looking for local training near you, then you can't get any closer to your doorstep than you can with virtual learning.

For virtual SharePoint training events the maximum number of learners is ten per course and you can benefit from full and immersive interaction with your trainer just as if they were in the classroom with you, with engaging hands-on training via advanced live video conferencing that is further enhanced by features such as live chat, private chat, and sharing screens and documents.

You can find out more about live virtual classroom SharePoint training delivered across Microsoft Teams video conferencing here: Learn More About Virtual Training with MS Teams.

Do you Record your Live Virtual SharePoint Governance Courses?

In our experience recording live SharePoint courses delivered via Microsoft Teams is not necessarily a good idea. The problems you might encounter include recordings failing due to Microsoft making updates to Teams and also bandwidth issues caused by streaming live courses and recording at the same time. As such, and in order to ensure the best possible learning experience for your students (and without any unnecessary disruptions) our instructors do not record our live virtual SharePoint courses.

Sharepoint Governance Course Cost

Our two-day SharePoint Governance course is charged at £1400.00 plus VAT and is available at this price for anywhere between one and six delegates. There is also a charge of £125.00 per day to cover the instructor's accommodation and travel costs to anywhere within the UK. If you have additional delegates you can add them for £50.00 plus VAT per person per day up to a maximum of 10 in total.

Courses can usually be tailored to suit your particular learning needs at no extra cost. However, please note that for fully bespoke SharePoint courses, we can only provide you with a quote for training and courseware once we have evaluated your requirements.

SharePoint Consultancy

Our SharePoint consultants are there to help you get the most out of your implementation of SharePoint. Whether your company is at the planning stage, needs help with SharePoint governance or a SharePoint strategy, or simply needs to know what benefits SharePoint can deliver to your organisation our consultancy services will help you to make the most effective and efficient use of SharePoint across your business environment. Find out more here: SharePoint Consultancy Services.

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SharePoint Consultancy

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SharePoint Strategy

A one-day event addressing the considerations and best practices for planning and implementing a SharePoint Strategy for your organisation in order to better manage your SharePoint sites throughout their entire lifecycle.

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SharePoint Training

We provide SharePoint courses for each and every role and responsibility, whether your staff are new users, advanced users, administrators, site owners or site collection administrators. All curated to your particular learning needs.

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Commercial and Corporate SharePoint Governance Courses for the Public and Private Sectors

How Many People Should Attend Our Private SharePoint Governance Courses?

Whilst the number of people who attend our private SharePoint Governance courses is essentially up to you and dependant upon the number of learners you have who need to receive the training (up to our ten delegate per course maximum), we encourage all of our clients to keep your class sizes small where possible. This provides a more personable and effective learning experience for you and allows the trainer to give more individual attention to each and every student.

What is the Teaching Method for Our SharePoint Governance Courses?

The teaching method for our private SharePoint courses is Instructor-led training (ILT), which means that our courses are engaging, immersive, hands-on and interactive, and thereby facilitate more effective learning and information retention. With this participatory learning method your staff will retain information better, whether they are studying SharePoint subjects in-person or via live virtual classroom. And, whilst we are happy to provide lectures, demonstrations and show-and-tells for larger groups (plus drop-in surgeries for ad hoc technical advice and explanation), the instructor-led training approach is by far the most reliable teaching methodology to bring your SharePoint know-how to life in a small-class-size setting.

How Long are Our Microsoft SharePoint Governance Courses?

Usual teaching hours for our SharePoint Governance courses for site owners are 9.30AM to 4.30PM with an hour for lunch and two short breaks morning and afternoon. This timetable is fairly standard across UK training providers and gives six hours of hands-on SharePoint learning, which is an optimal day's training when it comes to comfortably absorbing knowledge, undertaking practice exercises and retaining information.

If you need an earlier or later start time for your course please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate you.

Courses are delivered week days, Monday to Friday during normal business hours.

More About Our Microsoft SharePoint Training Delivery Method for Closed Courses for UK Businesses

• Step-by-Step Courses: Instructor-led SharePoint Governance training provided in-person with step-by-step demonstrations, lessons and hands-on exercises.
  
  
• Q&A courses: Dynamic and interactive SharePoint courses with plenty of time for questions and answers.
  
  
• Flexible Courses: Professional tuition that's tailored to match your team's present knowledge level and learning needs, and covering the SharePoint functions, features and techniques that your trainee staff, co-workers or employees need the most.
  
  
• Small Group Courses: Private, corporate SharePoint training for small group sizes with a maximum of 10 learners on any course.
  
  
• Scalable Courses: Can be run as a single course, tutorial or workshop; Or as a training rollout bringing whole teams, departments and organisations up to the benchmark level of SharePoint knowledge that you require.

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Sharepoint Governance Course Outline

• Lesson 1 - Introduction to SharePoint Governance
  1. The Need for Governance
  2. Definition of SharePoint Governance
     
     
• Lesson 2 - SharePoint Fundamentals
  1. SharePoint Editions
  2. Review of Basic SharePoint Elements
  3. Building a SharePoint Governance Site
     
     
• Lesson 3 - Establishing Model Governance Hierarchies
  1. Determining Information Requirements
  2. Site Hierarchies and Taxonomy¹
  3. Addressing Scalability
     
     
• Lesson 4 - Establishing a SharePoint Governance Team
  1. Establishing a SharePoint Governance Team
  2. Defining Individual Roles and Responsibilities
  3. Skill Set Gap Analysis
     
     
• Lesson 5 - Creating a SharePoint Governance Plan
  1. What Needs to Be Governed?
  2. How Should it be Governed?
  3. Creating a Governance Plan
     
     
• Lesson 6 - Areas of IT Governance
  1. Introduction to Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
  2. Services
  3. Site Templates
  4. Features
  5. Self-Service Site Creation²
  6. SharePoint Site Collection (Permissions and Policies)
  7. SharePoint Designer
  8. Sandboxing³
     
     
• Lesson 7 – SharePoint Governance and Information Architecture
  1. Information Architecture and SharePoint
  2. Managed Metadata
  3. Planning and Using Metadata in Content Types
  4. The Role of Search in SharePoint Governance
  5. Navigation
  6. Site Maps
     
     
• Lesson 8 – SharePoint Governance and Information Management
  1. Information Management Overview
  2. Document Management
  3. Planning a Document Management System
  4. Document Management Features in SharePoint
  5. Content Types
  6. Workflows and Power Automate
  7. Information Management Policies
  8. Records Management
     
     
• Lesson 9 - Branding and SharePoint Governance
  1. Branding Pages
  2. Team and Communication Sites
  3. Page Layouts
  4. Themes
     
     
• Lesson 10 - Governance of Application Management
  1. Solution Creation
  2. SharePoint Tools for Solution Creation
  3. a) - Power Automate
  4. b) - Visual Studio
  5. c) - Power Apps
  6. Testing
  7. Deployment
     
     
• Lesson 11 - Planning for Communication, User Adoption and Training
  1. Communicating for Success
  2. Stakeholder Communications
  3. Training the Organisation
     
     
• Lesson 12 - Ensuring Compliance
  1. Applying a Change Control Mechanism⁴
  2. Scheduling Governance Reviews
     
     
• Lesson 13 – SharePoint Governance Best Practice and Checklist
  1. Best Practices
  2. Checklist
  3. Sample SharePoint Governance Plan
     
     

SharePoint Governance Terminology in Layman's Terms

1) In SharePoint, the Taxonomy is a hierachical (parent / child) classification system which tags your content globally (words, labels, terms etc.) and makes it searchable and collate-able. It provides a useful alternative to traditional folder and subfolder document organisation.

2) Self-Service Site Creation in SharePoint is a Site Collection permission which enables users, groups and communities to create their own SharePoint sites. You will need to consider whether this permission will be enabled or disabled and how granting this level of autonomy is to be managed. For an explanation of the considerations involved you should read the following Microsoft article (for on-premise versions): Plan self-service site creation in SharePoint Server. Note that these considerations also apply to SharePoint Online for which you can manage Self-Service Site Creation in the SharePoint Admin center.

3) In non-technical terms, Sandboxed SharePoint solutions are ones that are run in a more closed, sealed environment in order to prevent them doing harm to the rest of the SharePoint environment. Using this method, solutions can be monitored and assigned quotas to prevent them causing issues such as CPU throttling.

4) In SharePoint Change Control Mechanisms are workflows that you can create (natively or with Power Automate) to manage your change approval and execution process more effectively (and with version control, tracking and audit capabilities).

Creating a Document Approval workflow is covered on Lesson 6 of our Power Automate course and Lesson 7 of our SharePoint Site Owner course.

Sharepoint Training Reviews

The trainer was very enthusiastic and engaging which created a great working environment. I have learnt a lot and the trainer was able to answer all questions very well.
R Rudge, Polytherics (SharePoint User Training Cambridge, East of England)

Really good, Stuart very knowledgeable and approachable, very comprehensive info and feel quite well equipped to try all this for myself.
Anon, Scottish Book Trust (SharePoint Site Owner Training Virtual Classroom)

Scott is engaging and lovely and knows his stuff. The course is brilliant, I cannot wait to get it up and running. We would highly recommend it to anyone. Thank you so much.
J Wade, Leeds City College (SharePoint Masterclass Training Leeds, West Yorkshire)

Really pleased with the coverage of the course. Really informative.
C Owen, Systagenix (Administration for SharePoint Training Skipton, North Yorkshire)

The format worked well and the training was extremely helpful.
J Olson, Hogan Lovells (SharePoint Training London)

The training here went really well and the trainer was brilliant.
H Batley, Matthey (SharePoint Training Hertfordshire)

Being able to tailor the course to our requirements was good.
N Bevan, Occam (Training for SharePoint Site Collection Administrators South West)

Beyond expectations.
P Barnwell Character World (Administration for SharePoint Training Stockport, Greater Manchester)

Very happy with the learning outcomes from today and looking forward to implementing them for our dept.
R Blaney, SIS TV (SharePoint Training Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire)

The tutor was knowledgeable and answered questions well.
J Byrne, Gemserv (Sharepoint training London EC3)

fantastic training and consultancy
D Swan, Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College (Sharepoint training Stoke on Trent)

The session was excellent and he covered everything I needed.
K Sefton, Barclays (Sharepoint training Manchester, North West)

I felt it covered everything I needed to know. Very thorough and straightforward
S Blevins, Smith & Nephew (Sharepoint Training York, North Yorkshire)

Course content excellent. Trainer very hands-on.
D Inwood, Plus Dane Group (Sharepoint Training Liverpool, Merseyside)

Just a quick note to commend Jonathan on his work at Control Risks over the last three sessions. He was an asset to your company and I would happily use him again in the future.
L. Jenkins, Control Risks (Sharepoint Training London SE1)

Really informative.
A Bagge, Arbuthnot (Sharepoint Training London EC2Y)

Trainer was very clear and concise. Very Good!
B Lockwood, Herefordshire Council (Sharepoint Training Hereford and Worcester)

The course was very comprehensive, and provided enough information to be absorbed in 2 days.
C Davidson, Marine Management Organisation (Sharepoint Training Newcastle upon Tyne)

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