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Digital resource library
Hi Louise,
Welcome to the forums. If you're not wanting anything too glossy, than the native Teams toolset should be adequate. Teams acts as an aggregator for some other O365 resources, one of which is SharePoint online. A teams instance will have a SharePoint site created under the bonnet. The files tab that you can see actually resides within a SharePoint document library.
In it's most crude form, you can upload a series of document, images and so on to this SharePoint library. For pointing to external resources, such as videos and the like there is the "Link" option that acts as a literal pointer to these resources. Lastly, adding some metadata to this library helps allows you to manage and filter these resources as required.
If this is of interest, do let me know and I'll mock up a quick screenshot for you.
Hi Louise,
Welcome to the forums. If you're not wanting anything too glossy, than the native Teams toolset should be adequate. Teams acts as an aggregator for some other O365 resources, one of which is SharePoint online. A teams instance will have a SharePoint site created under the bonnet. The files tab that you can see actually resides within a SharePoint document library.
In it's most crude form, you can upload a series of document, images and so on to this SharePoint library. For pointing to external resources, such as videos and the like there is the "Link" option that acts as a literal pointer to these resources. Lastly, adding some metadata to this library helps allows you to manage and filter these resources as required.
If this is of interest, do let me know and I'll mock up a quick screenshot for you.
Hi Steven. Thanks for your reply. This sounds interesting. One of the features we are looking for is the ability to search for tagged documents, links etc. Would this be possible using the suggestion you have given?
It would indeed. You can add specific metadata tags to the library and these are fully searchable.
If you can give me a few sample tags you've got in mind, I can whistle up a few screenshots for you so you've an idea of what to expect.
Thanks, that's great! So we might have 'abstract painting' 'figurative painting' 'abstract expressionism' 'online gallery' for an Art Department,
'engineering' 'apprenticeship' 'medicine' 'career guide' for a careers department
Hi LCWis
Apologies for the delay on responding. So, that's sort of 2 levels of metadata right there. I'll whistle something up today and will post back this afternoon for you.
