Creating a Team Site

A team site is a place where you and your team can share, store, and collaborate on shared documents and work together on projects. If your goal is instead to share information with a large audience while only having a few site editors that can create and edit content, you probably want to make a communication site, not a team site.

If you and your team started first in the Microsoft Teams application and already communicate via a Team in the Microsoft Teams application, SharePoint has automatically already created a SharePoint team site for you. Any documents your team shared with each other in the Microsoft Teams application are already stored in the corresponding SharePoint site. 

If you are part of a team in Microsoft Teams, SharePoint has automatically added the associated team site to the sites you follow.

  1. In the left sidebar, click the second icon for My Sites.
    My sites is the second item in the main sidebar
  2. Under Followed, click the team site.
    A list of microsoft team sites is listed at the bottom of the panel
  3. You will be brought to that team site’s homepage.
  1. In the top left of any SharePoint page, click + Create site.
    Create site is in the first horizontal menu
  2. Choose the Team site option.
    Team site is the first option
  3. A site creation wizard will appear on the right-hand side of the screen.
    Site creation has a description on the left and fields on the right
  4. Enter a Site name. This name must be unique across Tufts.
    A message will alert you if the name is available
  5. Optionally, you can enter a Site description.
  6. Choose your privacy settings. If you are not sure, leave your site at Private so that only members you specifically add can access to your site. You can change this later.
    Options are private and public
  7. Select a language for your site. The default is English.       
  8. Click Next.
  9. The next screen allows you to can optionally add team members to your site.
    Note: You can also add or remove team members and owners at any point after the site is created. You don’t need to add them all now!

    Add members is the only field
  10. To add a member, start typing a name. Names will automatically populate from the Tufts directory.
    Note: Adding owners outside of Tufts University is not recommended. Content co-owned by users outside of Tufts University will always be available to them. Even if all Tufts collaborators leave the university, these outside owners will still be able to view and edit the files and folders in the site. The Service Desk cannot transfer ownership of a site from outside of Tufts to a Tufts user.
    A dropdown appears with Tufts suggestions
  11. To change a person from a member to an owner, click the arrow drop down under their name next to Member and pick Owner instead.
    Options are member or owner
  12. When you have added all members for now, click Finish.
  13. Your site will be created.
  14. A pop-up might appear suggesting you start designing your site. Choose Maybe Later.
    Choose maybe later or browse templates
  15. You will be taken to your site home page, where you can start adding documents, notebooks, and other content to your site. 
    Main homepage has new sidebar menu on left and suggested sections populated
  16. Once your site is created, it will appear among the sites you're following.

For more information on customizing your new team site, see Microsoft's documentation on creating a team site.