So let's start out by creating a brand new plan from scratch in Microsoft Planner.
And you'll see as we do this, how easy it is.
Now, the plan that we're going to create is a plan for
a software development project.
And you can see that I've got an Excel spreadsheet open on the screen,
which just lists out some of the tasks involved in this project.
So you can use this file and you'll find it in the course files folder, it's called
software development project.xlsx, to add different tasks into your plan.
So this is a really good file to practice with in planner.
Now, before we start thinking about adding tasks to our plan,
we need to create the plan itself.
So let's jump across to planner and do that now.
Now as I mentioned at the start of this course, it might be that when you start
using planner for a while, you might find that it either exactly suits your needs,
but you might find that it's a little bit too basic.
And the only way you can determine that, is if you actually dive in and
start using planner.
So let's create a brand new plan.
And if we cast our eyes over to the left hand menu,
we have a new plan button at the top.
So let's click and declick that button, and we are required to enter a plan name.
So I'm just going to call this, Software Development Project.
Now, notice directly underneath we have a clickable link that says,
add to an existing Microsoft 365 group.
Then we're going to skip over that at this stage because we do have an entire lesson
dedicated to this.
So, let's skip over it and go straight down to privacy.
This is where we can decide what the privacy level is for a new plan.
So we can have a public plan that is open to everybody
in our organization to view and add items to.
Or we can create a private plan,
where only members that we invite can access the plan.
So I'm going to create a private plan.
And if we expand options, this is where we can add in a group description.
Once we're happy, we can click on Create Plan.
Once the plan's been created, it's going to jump us straight into the plan.
And as you might expect,
because we haven't added any tasks yet, what we're looking at is reasonably empty.
Take a look over on the left hand side.
You can now see under the All Section,
we now have our software development project listed.
So we're now at the point where we're ready to start adding in our tasks.
So that's how simple it is to create a basic plan in planner.
In the next lesson, we're going to take a look at how we can create a plan based off
of a Microsoft 365 Group.