About This Class

This course covers site design concepts in SharePoint and Office 365. All of the modern page and news settings are taught in detail. 

Learn about the options for changing the look of your modern site, when it comes to color schemes and banners, as well as the whole modern page publishing process.

All of the modern concepts are covered, such as title region layouts, page sections, section colors, the differences between pages and news pages, news footers, and news digests.

Other items covered include: modern news page publishing, all modern web parts, and O365 custom themes.

Course curriculum

Duration: 1.5 hours

  • 1

    Introduction to SharePoint Design and Pages

    • Introduction to SharePoint Design and Pages

    • Change The Look - Theme

    • Demo: Changing the Theme

    • Change the Look: Header & Footer

    • Demo: Header & Footer
  • 2

    Editing Pages and Modern Web Parts

    • SharePoint Pages

    • Editing Pages

    • Demo: Editing and Publishing

    • Page Sections & Web Parts

    • Demo: Page Sections

    • Page Anchors

    • Look Book Example Layout - IW Mentor

    • Supplemental: Organization Assets

    • Supplemental: Dynamic List Filtering

    • Supplemental: Spaces
  • 3

    All Web Parts - Demos

    • Bing Maps

    • Button & Call to Action

    • Countdown Timer

    • Code Snippet & Markdown

    • Divider & Spacer

    • Document Library

    • Events & Calendars

    • Hero

    • Highlighted Content

    • Supplemental: Highlighted Content Web Part Deep Dive

    • Image & Image Gallery

    • List & List Properties

    • Microsoft Forms

    • My Feed

    • People, Directory, Org Chart

    • Power Apps

    • Power BI Report

    • Quick Chart

    • Quick Links, Link

    • Recent Documents

    • Site Activity

    • Sites

    • Text

    • Twitter

    • Video: Stream & YouTube

    • Weather & World Clock

    • Yammer
  • 4

    News Pages

    • About News Pages

    • Demo: Create News Post & News Link

    • Promote Page & Page Templates

    • News Web Part

    • Send a News Digest

    • Page Properties

    • Page Scheduling

    • Page Approvals with Microsoft Flow

    • Mobile News

    • Audience Targeting

    • Pages and Permissions

    • Resources
  • 5

    Site Templates and Office 365 Branding

    • Site Templates

    • Demo: Apply a Site Template

    • Supplemental: Demo of all site templates

    • Supplemental: Workplace Transformation Site Template

    • Supplemental: Employee Onboarding Sites

    • Office 365 Branding
  • 6

    Wrap Up

    • Resources

    • What's Next

    • Site Design Quiz

    • Supplemental: Multilingual Sites

Pricing options

This course is part of our SharePoint Power User subscription

Reviews of this course

5 star rating

Review of Site Design & Web Parts course

Keisha Fleming

This was exactly what I needed to quickly learn how to edit modern pages, and to learn about the new web parts and how to configure them! I have been using ...

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This was exactly what I needed to quickly learn how to edit modern pages, and to learn about the new web parts and how to configure them! I have been using modern pages for a year but learned some new very valuable stuff here that I will start using immediately. Thanks!

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5 star rating

Very well structured

Kevin Hood

Content of the course was well designed and up to date. Instructor is very knowledgeable, easy to understand and personable.

Content of the course was well designed and up to date. Instructor is very knowledgeable, easy to understand and personable.

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Site Design & Web Parts

Denise Child

Nice Demonstration!

Nice Demonstration!

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Editing Page Properties

Cheryl Shah

There are two videos about editing page properties.

There are two videos about editing page properties.

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Your Instructor

Microsoft MVP

Laura Rogers

Laura Rogers is a SharePoint, Power Apps & Power Automate expert, speaker, author and educator. She is well-versed in helping organizations make the most of their SharePoint environments using out-of-box functionalities such as workflows, forms and Web parts. Laura’s technical expertise also includes over 15 years of experience working with Microsoft’s messaging and collaboration systems. She has been named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for the past ten years. She has contributed to several books on SharePoint over the past ten years. You can read more about Laura’s experiences on her blog, www.wonderlaura.com, and follow her on twitter: @WonderLaura