Module 1: Master Pages

This module explains what master pages are and how to work with them.

Lessons

• Understanding Master Pages
• Attaching a Master Page
• Creating a Web Page from a Master Page
• Customizing a Master Page
• Changing the Default Master Page
• Manage content placeholders and content regions.
• Reset a master page to the site definition.

• Explore a site's default master page.
• Attach a master page.
• Create a customizable ASP.NET page from a master page.
• Change the default master page.
• Work with content placeholders on the master page and on the content page.
• Reset a customized master page to the site definition.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 2: Cascading Style Sheets

This module provides an overview of the Page Editor Options dialog box. It also explains how to identify styles used on sites, and how to work with styles. It explains how to work with the Style Application toolbar and with CSS files. Finally, it explores core.css and default master page.

Lessons

• Understanding CSS and Color-Coding Options
• Identifying Styles in Cascading Style Sheets
• Creating, Modifying, and Deleting Styles
• Using the Style Application Toolbar
• Creating and Attaching CSS Files
• Understanding CSS Inheritance in SharePoint
• Using CSS Reports

• Explore the Page Editor Options dialog box.
• Identify styles used on a site.
• Work with styles.
• Work with the Style Application toolbar.
• Attach a CSS file to a page.
• Examine core.css and default.master
• Validate the default master page.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 3: Site Definitions and Templates

This module provides an overview of site definitions and templates, and how to use them, such as creating and exploring site templates and testing site template solutions.

Lessons

• Understanding Site Definitions and Templates
• Creating a Site Template
• Exploring a Site Template
• Testing a Site Template Solution

• Create a site template.
• Save and explore a site template.
• Create and test a site based on a site template.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 4: SharePoint Site Management

This module explains how to configure and identify Contributor Settings; create reports; back up, restore, export, and import sites; and copy lists, libraries, and documents between sites.

Lessons

• Configuring Contributor Settings
• Identifying Contributor Settings
• Creating Reports
• Backing Up and Restoring Sites
• Exporting and Importing Sites
• Copying Lists and Libraries Between Sites
• Copying Documents Between Sites

• Create and configure a Contributor group.
• Identify the permissions assigned to users of a Contributor group.
• Explore the site-management reports.
• Back up and restore a site.
• Use an exported site as the basis for a new site.
• Import a subset of a site.
• Copy a document to another site.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 5: Usability and Accessibility

This module identifies usability issues and describes how to address these issues, choose color schemes that are user friendly, ensure that your site meets accessibility standards, and explains how to generate accessibility and compatibility reports.

Lessons

• Understanding Usability Issues
• Choosing Color Schemes
• Understanding Accessibility Standards and Legal Issues
• Generating Accessibility Reports
• Generating Compatibility Reports

• Identify usability issues.
• Check the usability of a color scheme.
• Use the Accessibility Checker.
• Generate an accessibility report.
• Generate a compatibility report.

After completing this module, students will be able to: