How to create a SharePoint Project Site, SharePoint Team Site - Step by Step

This article shows how Office 365 global admins and SharePoint admins can create classic SharePoint Online site collections from the Office 365 admin center.

Create a classic site collection

SharePoint Online has several templates for classic site collections. For example, you can create sites for blogs, wikis, record storage, and publishing. Some previous Office 365 plans can have only one site collection.

1. Sign in to Office 365 as a global admin or SharePoint admin.
2. Select the app launcher icon  in the upper-left and choose Admin to open the Office 365 admin center. (If you don't see the Admin tile, you don't have Office 365 administrator permissions in your organization.)
3. In the left pane, select Resources, and then select Sites.
   
4. Select Add a site.
   
   Please Note

   If you don't see the options above, select Admin centers > SharePoint and then select New > Private Site Collection. > 
5. Fill out the new site collection properties:
   

• In the Title box, enter a name for the site collection.
• In the Web Site Address drop-down lists , select a domain name and a URL path—either /sites/ or /teams/ —and then type a URL name for the site collection.
• In the Template Selection section, in the Select a language drop-down list, select a language for the site collection. You can enable the SharePoint multiple language interface on your sites, but the primary language for the site collection will remain the one you select here.
• In the Template Selection section, under Select a template, choose the template that most closely describes the purpose of your site collection. For example, if your site collection will be used for a team collaboration, choose Team Site.
• In the Time Zone box, select the time zone that's appropriate for the location of the site collection.
• In the Administrator box, type the user name of your site collection administrator. You can also use the Check Names or Browse button to find a user to make site collection administrator.
• In the Storage Quota box, type the number of megabytes (MB) you want to allocate to this site collection. Do not exceed the available amount that is displayed next to the box.
• In the Server Resource Quota box, accept the resource quota default. This setting no longer affects the resource amounts available for the site collection.

6. Click OK.

The new site collection will appear in the URL list. The URL is the site collection location at which the administrator can start to create and manage sites.