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Office groups, sharepoint online and students
Hi, I'm not sure if this is a common education issue or just my own insecurities. I work for a large UK University. Our students have been using office 365 for a while, and that means they have some ...
Hi Peter Gibbs,
We implemented SharePoint online for some of our business units before groups came into play. We thought about the structure and because of different limitations we also did not want to create all sites/subsites as part of one big site collection.
What we currently do instead is have different site collections per business unit, for example. We have some out for HR, Finance, Student Affairs and sub-sites per teams within those site. The way we aggregate them all is on our SharePoint homepage xxx.sharepoint.com. Here we created an Index of all sites, divided by Academic Divisions, Departments, and Projects. First time users know to come to this site to find the site they are looking for. They are then instructed to "favorite", "follow" their sites so that it shows up on their Promoted sites when clicking on "SharePoint" from the tile.
Also, since we did not previously have a university wide intranet, we have started rolling out SharePoint in a controlled manner for interested groups that either need an intranet or are trying to resolve a business need.
