The SharePoint training gives you the basics to use a SharePoint team site as a collaboration platform. Over a full day, you master navigation, document management, sharing and co-editing, as well as SharePoint lists and libraries. A pivotal skill in organizations using Microsoft 365 in French speaking Switzerland.
Work efficiently in a SharePoint team site and benefit from all its features
For profiles based in Geneva or Lausanne, knowing how to use SharePoint with ease changes the daily life in most modern organizations. This SharePoint course focuses on hands on cases: centralized document management, sharing with rights control, real time co-editing, structured lists. You take home techniques to fully exploit your team site.
Module 1: Introduction
Module 2: Working with Team Sites
Module 3: Working with Pages
Module 4: Working with Web Parts
Inserting/customizing/removing Web Parts
Module 5: Working with Libraries
Module 6: Working with Lists
SharePoint has become the documentary backbone of most Microsoft 365 organizations. Team site for collaborative work, intranet for communication, file hub for internal sharing, structured information management via lists: SharePoint covers a wide perimeter that few users really exploit. The SharePoint training delivers the basics to become an efficient user.
The usefulness is operational: a well-used SharePoint team site replaces tons of files exchanged by email, centralizes versions, ensures everyone works on the latest version of a document.
The heart of the course is mastering SharePoint document libraries. You learn to upload, organize, version and share files. Key features (versions, alerts, metadata, views) are studied in detail.
SharePoint offers a granular rights system that allows sharing a document, folder or site with specific people and different authorization levels (read only, modify, full control). The course details these options.
Beyond documents, SharePoint offers structured lists: team directory, task tracking, project sheets, internal FAQ. The course shows how to create a list, customize it, exploit it via filtered views.
One of SharePoint’s great strengths is real time Office co-editing. Multiple collaborators can modify the same Word, Excel or PowerPoint document simultaneously, seeing each other’s changes in real time.
The SharePoint training for team site is designed for Microsoft 365 users who want to master their team site and fully benefit from SharePoint features. Basic Microsoft 365 use is required.
In ITTA premises in Carouge and Le Flon, this SharePoint course runs over one day with an expert instructor and a limited group. You work on a real team site and hold immediately applicable techniques.
What is a SharePoint team site?
A SharePoint team site is a Microsoft 365 collaborative platform combining shared documents, lists, calendars and notifications for a team or project.
Is SharePoint included in Microsoft 365?
Yes, SharePoint Online is included in most Microsoft 365 business and enterprise subscriptions.
What is the difference between SharePoint and OneDrive?
OneDrive is for personal storage, SharePoint for team storage and collaboration. Both work together.
Does this course cover SharePoint administration?
No, this course targets users. The SharePoint for Site Owners course covers administration.
Can I attend this SharePoint training in Geneva?
Yes, the course is held at the ITTA center in Carouge in Geneva, at Le Flon in Lausanne and in a virtual classroom.
How long to become autonomous on SharePoint?
The basics are acquired in a structured day.
How to go further after this SharePoint course?
The SharePoint for Site Owners course to manage a site, or the Microsoft Teams course to integrate SharePoint into a team workflow.
Members and regular contributors of a SharePoint team site, collaborative project leaders, support functions organizing their shared space. In Geneva and Lausanne, the course welcomes participants from international organizations, banking, consulting and growing SMEs. No specific prerequisite is required other than a concrete willingness to progress on the subject.
You leave with an operational mastery of the fundamentals, reusable canvases on your concrete cases, a structured action plan for the weeks that follow. Many participants report a visible effect from the first week back, with sustainable anchoring over four to six weeks of regular practice. The course combines short theory inputs, practical exercises on your real situations and personalized trainer debrief.
A project leader structuring her team site to facilitate documentary collaboration with 15 contributors. A manager transforming an anarchic SharePoint site into readable usable space. A quality manager setting up a documentary library with approval workflow. The course adapts exercises to your context with personalized trainer feedback, and each participant leaves with an action plan calibrated to their own situation.
This training combines well with Microsoft Teams for integrated collaboration, OneDrive for personal files, and Power Automate to automate documentary flows. Many participants enroll in one of these courses in the following trimester, according to their current priority and professional context.
SharePoint remains the cornerstone of documentary collaboration in Microsoft 365 ecosystem, with modern UI redesign and growing Teams, Loop and Viva integration. This training lays bases for users wanting to master their team site without falling into the typical confusion of poorly used SharePoint.
Most participants signal a noticeable effect from the first or second week of return, with deeper anchoring over four to six weeks of regular practice. The course closes with a personalized practice plan calibrated on your professional rhythm, with milestones at one, three and six months for participants wanting to track their progression more formally.
At ITTA centers in Geneva and Lausanne, this course runs in a small group with an expert trainer and a format alternating concise theory, practical exercises and personalized debrief. Group confidentiality is explicit and held. Each participant arrives with a real case and leaves with an action plan calibrated to their context. The course integrates recent evolutions of the domain (digital tools, hybrid formats, 2025-2026 practices) without losing focus on fundamentals.
Does the course cover modern SharePoint UI?
Yes, focus is on 2025-2026 modern experience with classic specifics for transitioning users.
Do we work on personal SharePoint site?
Yes, each participant can bring an existing site or use training environment.
Suitable for Teams-associated site?
Yes, Teams-backed SharePoint sites are covered with their specifics.
Where do sessions take place?
ITTA has three centers in French speaking Switzerland: in Geneva (Carouge, Route des Jeunes 35), in Lausanne at the Flon (Rue des Cotes de Montbenon 16) and at Lausanne Mon-Repos (Avenue de Mon-repos 24). The training is also available in virtual classroom.
Monday to Friday
8:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Tel. 058 307 73 00
ITTA
Route des jeunes 35
1227 Carouge, Suisse
Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 06:00 pm.
