SharePoint Online is a web based collaborative platform for storing and sharing content securely. It is designed to help you share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to make teamwork easier, find information quickly and to collaborate seamlessly. It is also the platform for the University's Oxford-wide intranet, OxIntranet.
Benefits
- Communicate and collaborate with colleagues
- Straightforward and flexible site management with a flat structure
- Invite external users to use your site or view items, folders, libraries and lists
- Choose and control how much access external users should have
- Good compliance, governance and security options allow secure collaboration on sensitive content
- Integration with Microsoft Power Automate to automate workflows and repetitive tasks
- Accessed using a web browser and your single sign-on (SSO).
- Integrated with Nexus365
- A site quota of up to 1 TB
Meeting solution
There are two versions of a meeting solution for SharePoint Online:
- Basic Meeting Site, which provides the functionality for a meeting with documents
- Committee Meeting Site, which provides functionality for meetings, with documentation and security levels to manage who can access what content
Intranet content
'Intranet' content, designed to share information, news and events with large groups of colleagues is now being grouped together in the 'OxIntranet' area of SharePoint Online.
OxIntranet is the University’s new Oxford-wide intranet, which allows staff and students to find information from across the collegiate University that is relevant to them.
Departments and colleges making use of OxIntranet will benefit from additional functionality, support and governance to help make content more user-focused and discoverable.
Find out more on the OxIntranet page on the Communications Hub.
Alternatives
OneDrive may be preferred for storing or sharing your own content with a few colleagues.
Teams may be a better solution for small teams or less formal collaboration.
Web content management systems should be used for any content that needs to be made available to an external audience
