Create a custom Home page for a Teams Class

This is an optional nice-to-have for your Microsoft Team. It is not only a place to customise the look of your Team, but it can be a valuable place to add information about yourself and the subject that won’t fit easily elsewhere. To be honest, the edit interface is a bit clunky so I can only really recommend it for a bit of prettiness and not a place for loads of information.

1. Add the Sharepoint Pages app

The pages that appear when you select the Home page tab of a Team or Class are SharePoint Pages. This means you need to activate the Sharepoint Pages app for each class. Once you have completed this task, the Home page tab will appear with a template that looks similar to the page in the screenshots below (if the template page is visible, skip this step and go to 2. The Home page tab):

1. Select the Home page tab if it is visible
2. If it is not visible, select the Add a tab button
3. Search for SharePoint Pages
4. Click on the SharePoint Pages icon

2. The Home page tab

When you view the Home page tab page it will have a default page that will most likely be a company template (similar to the one below). This template page can then be edited.

1. Select the Home page tab
2. View the template
3. Click the inverted caret
4. Select the Expand tab option
5. Select the Edit button

3. Edit

Editing a SharePoint Page is a WYSIWYG affair, and similar to using Microsoft PowerPoint. Simply click on different elements of the page and see what options and tools pop up in the floating menus.

3.1 Banner image

The template includes a default banner image with the dimensions 1175 x 295. You can remove it, edit it, or replace it with your own image. You can use PNG, JPG, GIF & animated GIF format images. Simply click on the existing banner image to activate the menu:

3.2 Text overlay

Your default template includes a fully editable text overlay for the banner image. You can delete it or edit and format it.

1. Click on the title
2. Click the Edit button
3. Drag the text box into position
4. Your changes save automatically in draft format
5. You can save your changes manually in draft format
6. Click the Republish button to make your changes “live”

4. Next steps

By default, you only have one page. You can add multiple pages and link them together, thereby building your very own extranet (private website available on the Internet to people who have permission to access your pages).

You can only create additional pages on the company’s online SharePoint portal.