How to Add Members to a SharePoint Online Site?

In this SharePoint online tutorial, I will explain how to add members to a SharePoint Online site. We will add members to the SharePoint team site and a communication site.

Note: You need to be a site owner for the site to which you want to add members.

Add Members to a SharePoint Online Team Site

Let us see how to add members to a SharePoint Online team site.

From 3 different places, we can add members to a SharePoint site:

• From the site members section
• From site permissions
• From the SharePoint admin center

Add Members to a SharePoint Site From the Members Section

I will explain how to add members to a SharePoint Online team site directly from the site members section. Follow the below instructions:

• Open a SharePoint team site home page; click on members at the right corner.

• Then, it will open a Group membership dialogue box; click on Add members button.

• Now, it will open Add members pane, and here you provide a name in Add members dialogue box. Click on Save.

• Once you click the Save button, you can see the member has been added to the SharePoint Online team site.

This is how to add members to a SharePoint Online team site through the add members section.

Add members to a SharePoint Team site from site permissions

In this section, I will guide you on adding members to a SharePoint Online team site from site permissions.

• Open the SharePoint site home page, Select Site permissions under settings.

• Under the Permission window, click on Add members.
• By default, three groups will be there in the Permissions pane such as :
  • Site owners: The user who has full control over a SharePoint site.
  • Site members: The site members have limited control (Edit) over the SharePoint team site.
  • Site visitors: Site visitors have no control; they can not be able to edit.

• Then, choose to Add members to group from the drop-down of Add members.

• Then, it will open a Group membership dialogue box; click on Add members button.

• It will open Add members pane, and start typing a name in Add members dialogue box. Click on Save.

• Now, you can see there will be two site members after adding a member by site permissions, as shown below:

This is how to add members directly to the SharePoint team site through Site permissions.

Add members to a SharePoint Team site from the SharePoint admin center

Next, I will show you how to add SharePoint Online team site members from the SharePoint admin center.

• Open SharePoint admin center. Expand sites and click on Active sites.

• Under Active sites, select the SharePoint team site to which you want to add members.

• Under Membership, Select Site members and click on Add site members.

• Then it will open Add site members to a SharePoint site, search by name or email address and Click on Add.

• Now, we can see it will be displayed as three site members after adding a Site member as shown below:

This is how to add site members to a SharePoint Online team site from the SharePoint admin center.

Add Members to a SharePoint Communication Site

Similarly, I will show you how to add members to a SharePoint Online Communication site.

We can add members to a SharePoint Online Communication site from three different places:

1. From Site Permissions
2. From the SharePoint admin center

Add Members to SharePoint Communication Site from Site Permissions

Likewise, I will show you how we can add members from site permissions to a SharePoint Online Communication site.

• Open a SharePoint Communication site home page; Select Site permissions under settings.

• It will open a Permissions window; click on Share site.
• In the site permissions, by default, three groups will be displayed such as:
  • Site owners: The user who has full control permission level.
  • Site members: The users who have limited control over a SharePoint site.
  • Site visitors: The users who have Read permission can not edit.

• Then, it opens a Share site dialogue box, where we can search and select the member. Click on Add.

• After that, a site member can be added to a SharePoint Communication Online site as shown below:

This is how to add members directly to the SharePoint Communication site through Site permissions.

Add members to a Communication site from the SharePoint admin center

Let us now see, how to add members to a SharePoint Online Communication site through the SharePoint admin center.

• Open SharePoint admin center. Expand sites and click on Active sites.

• Select and open a SharePoint site for which you need to add members.

• Under Membership, Select Site members and click on Add site members.

• It opens Add site members to a SharePoint site window, search by name or email address and Click on Add.

• Now, the selected site member has been added to a SharePoint Online communication site as shown below:

So, this is how to add site members to a SharePoint Online Communication site through the SharePoint admin center.

Conclusion

Here we learned how to add members to a SharePoint Online team site and communication site.

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