Welcome to SharePoint. SharePoint is an online file storage, and document collaboration software hosted within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Previously UCCS has used local on premises file servers to host files for our various departments. With the migration of your departments files into M365, you will begin to access this information in the cloud.


Access to the SharePoint page begins with an invite to the site that contains your department's files. You will receive an email that looks like this:


SharePoint can be accessed directly by logging into office.com , go to the all applications button, and select SharePoint.

Office Home page with arrow pointing to applications button.

Office Applications menu page with arrow pointing to SharePoint app.


If you have not started following a site yet, you will be greeted with the following page

SharePoint online Landing page.


Please go back to the original email you received when you were invited to your department's SharePoint page, and click the link to access. Once you have loaded the page, select the star in the upper-right corner next to the words "Not following" to bookmark the page for easier access.

A SharePoint page with an arrow pointing to the Not Following option with an empty star signifying that the current page is not being followed.

An arrowing pointing to the Following option with the star filled in indicating that the current SharePoint page is now being followed.

Now if you navigate manually to SharePoint, you will see the site you just followed

Picture of the SharePoint landing page with an arrow pointing to a site title under the header Following.

Clicking the name of the link will take you to the homepage for the site. There are more ways to access this department site that will be covered later.