What is a Site in SharePoint?

  • A SharePoint site is where conversations, news, documents, and other information are shared with the members of a SharePoint group.
  • You can navigate through SharePoint site content via the navigation panel. All of the possible options you may run into are as follows:
    • Home - brings you to the home page for the site.
    • Conversations - opens the "Groups" section of Outlook.
    • News - shows any posted news for the site.
    • Notebook - opens OneNote to a shared OneNote notebook.
    • Documents - shows all of the documents that have been shared on the site.
    • Site Contents - contains documents, old versions of the site pages, and all site-related content.
    • Pages - If the site contains multiple pages, they will be here, as well as older versions of pages.
    • Recycle bin - stores deleted SharePoint content.
    • Link - it is common to have links to commonly used websites on the navigation panel.
    • Label - creates a static item used to label a section of the navigation panel.
    • Calendar - opens the SharePoint calendar view.
    • Planner - opens Microsoft Planner.
    • Teams - opens the Microsoft Teams to the Teams page that is linked to the SharePoint page.

SharePoint navigation page with all options

  • If you have any Teams under the Teams tab while using Microsoft Teams, those are simply a way to access the SharePoint site content (see the image below).


 

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