Accessing Teams or Sharepoint Files

As more and more departments and folders are migrated online.  It can be confusing at first to understand where to find the files you are looking for.  The guides below show the various ways you can access them now they are online.

Teams and Sharepoint are the same thing!  If someone says its on sharepoint, its actually on Teams as well!  

Using Teams

The preferred and easiest way to access your files, is via teams.

Step 1 - Open the Teams client and navigate to the team that the files have been moved into.  In most cases folders are moved into a team with the same name.  Some more general folders will be absorbed into other teams such as the Senior School Teachers team or All Staff Team.

Step 2 - Click on the channel on the left.  These channels represent the old top level folders, in most cases the General channel is the best place to look first

Step 3 - Click on the files tab at the top.  You can now browse and view the files.

Using OneDrive Online

Either via onedrive.com or using the office.com webpage you can access shared folders using any modern web browser.

Step 1 - Navigate to onedrive.com or https://badmintonschool-my.sharepoint.com/

Step 2 - Sign in if prompted to do so with your School email and password

Step 3 - Use the shared libraries section to browse the teams and associated files and folders

Use the OneDrive client to Sync a copy to your local computer

If you absolutely crave the good old days of accessing your files directly in windows using file explorer, you can tell the OneDrive client to keep a copy of a shared folder on your local computer.  It will automatically download files when you access them and will upload files back to OneDrive in the background.

Step 1 - Find the shared folder using Teams or OneDrive as above

Step 2 - Click on the Sync button at the top of the folder you wish to synchronise.

Step 3 - Your web browser will prompt you to open Microsoft OneDrive

Step 4 - If you have not already done so, OneDrive will ask you where to create the local copy. 

Step 5 - Access the folder in file explorer.

Did you know you can also sync a local copy of your private OneDrive folders using the same method!