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What is Live@edu

School Email and More Online Tools for Your Students – Less Work, Lower Cost for You

Your students want more, with the exception of homework, of course. While you can't help with less homework, you can give them more services. Microsoft provides your students, and everybody else on campus, with student email and calendaring, 25 GB of online storage and a place to share and edit their Microsoft Office documents online using Office Live Workspace. Best of all, hosting university email on Microsoft's servers can reduce traffic on yours, helping save on maintenance, effort, and cost, and get more of what you want – time to do other things.

IT Features and Benefits
Flexible and reliable service in the cloud with enhanced security.

  • Deployment flexibility – have Microsoft host your entire campus email system or keep parts of it, like faculty and staff, on-premise – the choice is yours

  • Simple IT management tools

  • School co-branding – customize your student's experience with school colors and logo


Student Email + Calendar

Equip your students with student email and calendar tools similar to what they may use in the workforce.


Microsoft Outlook Live Provide a co-branded Exchange solution at no cost with Outlook Live (10 GB/user).

Outlook Live is built on the latest Exchange technology and has many of the same features your students will use after they leave school.

  • Free 10 GB inbox, 20 MB attachments

  • Features like shared calendars, drag and drop messages, and conversation view

  • Use popular browsers on Windows or Mac, Firefox and Safari are supported

  • Directories can be integrated with faculty/staff on Exchange

  • Multi-mailbox search for e-mail messages sent and received across your entire organization

  • Streamlined on-boarding experience for users


Collaboration

Online services to store, share, and edit documents.


Microsoft Outlook Live Provide a co-branded Exchange solution at no cost with Outlook Live (10 GB/user).

Microsoft Office Live Workspace is your online place to save, access, and share documents and files. No downloads are required.

  • Password-protected document sharing - you control who views and edits

  • Store 1000+ documents

  • Extension of Microsoft Office

  • No more flash drives or sending documents to yourself as email attachments

  • Collaborate with others, even if they don't have Office



Windows Live SkyDrive 25 GB of free online storage.

Store, access and share files with friends or classmates, from anywhere online. 25 GB of free online storage.

  • Password-protected: Students decide who sees what

  • Drag and Drop: Uploading content is as easy as dragging and dropping the files from your computer onto the Web

  • Shared folders: Working on a project with classmates? With shared folders, the whole team can upload, download, and collaborate on documents and other files



Windows Live Spaces Great for group projects, campus clubs, or personal pages.

  • Link to documents stored on SkyDrive

  • Share your space with the world or with those you select from your contact list

  • Create blogs

  • Group discussions

  • Templates make it easy to create a cool space


Communication

Enhance your students' online and mobile experience, and allow them to personalize it with these communication tools.


Windows Live Messenger One of the world’s most popular IM clients lets students do more than just chat.

  • Group chat with up to 15 others

  • Look at photos together right in the conversation window

  • Show off your personal style with custom scenes, animated display pictures, and signature sounds

  • Shared folders: Share documents too large to send as attachments

  • Send SMS messages from the Messenger interface



Windows Live Writer Compose compelling blog posts using Windows Live Spaces or your current blog service.

  • WYSIWYG blog authoring lets you see exactly what you're going to post before you publish

  • Photo publishing allows you to insert, customize, and upload photos with contextual editing tools

  • Insert a Windows Live local map directly into a post, and customize it with pushpin links



Windows Live Mobile University and school email, and more tools online or on the go.

Services are accessible via mobile phones:

  • Automatically synchronize with your phone using Outlook Live

  • Windows Live Spaces, Hotmail, and Messenger are WAP-enabled

  • Receive email on your mobile phone through POP3

  • Windows Live for Mobile allows push email to Windows Mobile phones and iPhone