Hi, it's Matt and welcome to Collaboration Coach.
This time we're going to look at how to add and configure a news web part
to your SharePoint intranet homepage.
This video was taken from a class on my online school
so if you'd like to know more then check out the link in the description.
Okay so let's start off on the intranet home page
because when people visit your intranet,
the first thing they'll see is this area in the top left
so that's where I want to put the most important information
and I think that's my company news.
News is a key part of any intranet
and the distribution of current news should be one of its main goals
so I'm going to put my news web part up here.
A web part is Microsoft's name for a block of content that you can add to a page.
The news web part is your way of collating the news in one view
and presenting it on your page.
So how do we add a web part?
Now when I'm in 'page edit' mode and I hover my mouse in any section,
I'll see a line with a plus in it.
I'll just choose the plus in the section I want to put the web part in
and it will show me a list of all the available web parts
and I can scroll through the list
and you can see there are web parts for all sorts of things
like text and images and videos
and there's also apps like YouTube and Twitter.
To help me find the one I'm looking for I can filter them by category,
I can view them as a list or a grid.
And the one I use most is the keyword search.
I'm just going to type 'news' and then choose the news web part that shows up
and it will be added to my page.
When the news web part is added it will have some placeholders for the news items.
That's unless you've already added some news to your site.
If you've already created some they will be listed here instead.
So the first thing I want to do to this web part
is change the layout of the news stories,
and I can do that by going to the pencil button on the toolbar here.
The news panel will open up on the right hand side
and I can go to the layout section in that panel and I can choose the 'top story' layout.
This will put the latest story as a larger image on the left hand side of the web part
and then the other three stories will be on the right
and they'll be slightly smaller.
It's just my preference as the way I like to lay out news.
But you can experiment with the other layouts too.
If I choose 'save as draft',
now I can see what the news web part will look like
and you can see it's going to show me four pieces of news.
Now just for this demo I'm going to add some news items so it will look nice
but you don't have to do this to complete the home page.
To create some news I just choose the 'add news' button,
then I'll choose a blank template
and then 'create post'.
I'll add a name here and I'm going to call it 'well-being events are coming soon'.
Then I'll choose an image for the title area by choosing the image button here.
I'm going to use the stock images
and I'll put in a keyword search for well-being.
Then I can choose an image
and then 'insert'.
Now back on the news page I just choose 'post news'
and then it will show up on my home page.
Okay so now I've created my news and it's all showing up in the news web part.
I hope you found this useful
and please remember to check out my class
on creating an intranet homepage in my school.
So thanks for watching and I'll see you next time.