OVERVIEW
Target audience: students, faculty, and staff
SharePoint Online, part of Microsoft 365, is a secure place to store, organize, and access information from almost any device and recent web browser. See About: Microsoft SharePoint Online for details.
This article contains links to documentation and videos about SharePoint Online, organized by topic.
In this article:
NOTICE: SharePoint "Alert me" going away
The SharePoint Alert me feature will be removed from McGill’s SharePoint sometime between January and July 2026. McGill has no control over the exact moment when the feature will be removed.
IMPORTANT: If you depend on these alerts for business-critical notifications in your workflows, you must discontinue their use as soon as possible.
There are two other options available to replace this feature: SharePoint rules or Power Automate. To know if Alerts are active on a document library, refer to the first item in this article.
Permissions and collaboration in SharePoint Online
In the Microsoft Support knowledge base:
In the McGill IT Knowledge Base:
- Private vs public sites
- Sharing in SharePoint
- Collaborating with external users
- About: SharePoint hub sites *New*
Managing content in your SharePoint Online site
In the Microsoft Support knowledge base:
- SharePoint hub sites
- What is a document library?
- SharePoint lists: Introduction
- SharePoint pages:
- Searching: Modern search in SharePoint
- Use filtering to modify a SharePoint view
- Create a custom view of a document library
- Customize the navigation on your SharePoint site
- Living Large with Large Lists and Large Libraries
Migrating content to SharePoint Online
In the McGill IT Knowledge Base:
Video tutorials