Ryan Clark

As the Modern Workplace Architect at Mr. SharePoint, I help companies of all sizes better leverage Modern Workplace and Digital Process Automation investments. I am also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for SharePoint and Microsoft 365.

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Microsoft Forms Templates for Employee Onboarding Surveys: What I Build for Clients (and Where It Actually Gets Hard)

You can build an onboarding survey in Microsoft Forms before your coffee gets cold. Pick a template, tweak a few questions, and hit share. Here’s what I actually build for a client’s onboarding program: The first two are the easy part. Anyone can build a form, and that’s exactly why so much onboarding feedback goes nowhere. The form is easy, so the whole project feels easy. Then the answers end up trapped in Forms, or dumped into an Excel file nobody opens again. The real work is everything downstream, and that’s where it gets hard: where responses get stored, how

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What Is a SharePoint Web Part? (The Answer I Give Every New Admin)

I get this question constantly, almost always from a new admin who just inherited a site and opened a page in edit mode for the first time. A web part is a building block you drop onto a modern page, and each one does a specific job: So that’s the short answer I give every new admin. They’re web parts, the pieces you snap together to build almost any page you want. No code, no developer, just picking the right block for the job. Get that habit down and building an intranet stops feeling like guesswork. That last part is

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SharePoint for Education: The Features I Actually Get Schools to Use

Most schools already pay for SharePoint. It’s bundled into their Microsoft 365 Education licensing, next to Teams and Outlook, and most never use it past the default team site. The features I get them using are always the same handful: SharePoint works fine out of the box. What’s usually missing is the bandwidth to configure it, and that problem is getting worse for the small teams running most districts. School IT teams are small, often one person for a whole district, already buried in help tickets. Nobody has a free afternoon to architect a document library. So below is what

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