Meet students where they are…online.
Students have high expectations for how technology should support their communication and collaboration needs. They anticipate always having an abundance of options in technologies and content – options that will continue to evolve rapidly. They expect wireless technology to easily keep them connected at all times and in all places. Furthermore, these technologies are inexpensive and will remain so. Although they expect support and access to institutionally owned devices, their primary connections will be through personally owned devices.
Given these realities, Live@edu is committed to providing anywhere, anytime services. With our 99.9% target SLA and a web, desktop and mobile solutions around communication and collaboration, they provide these services to students where they are…online.
Simple to manage and integrate.
You are responsible for myriad technologies on a daily basis, often managing them with constrained budgets. When you move all or part of your collaboration and communication needs to the cloud, you want these services to be easy to manage and hopefully, integrate well with the existing software and services you’ve already invested in. We can help you by ensuring our services come with tools that make them easy to manage and integrate. Microsoft offer great tools, like PowerShell, that allow you to manage our software and services from anywhere with ease regardless of the delivery mechanism (software on-premise or Live@edu service). With our extensibility mechanisms such as SSO or our programmability interface such as Exchange Web Services, we make it simple for you to integrate our software into your ecosystem.
Protect data and privacy.
As you migrate your data into the cloud, Microsoft are very much aware of your concerns around data integrity and privacy. You own your data, Microsoft store it for you in their state of the art Dublin datacenter, they do not show 3rd party ads in the e-mail interface, and strive to provide a secure experience. As an example, Outlook Live uses secure communication channel (SSL) by default. Also, Live@edu services are engineered with essential controls for Education, such as bad word filter or closed campus in Outlook Live. Invest in innovative technology while managing cost.
And finally, we want to become your partners in providing new and innovation technology -- technology that will help bolster your schools reputation and ready your students for employment by using the technologies of their future workplaces. We firmly believe that the magic of software should not be constrained to a particular delivery model. The Software+Services approach ensures that you don’t need to choose between a rich client and a browser application that lives only in the cloud. You can have either or both with our Education offering.
Microsoft provides Live@edu free of charge to academic institutions
Organisations adopting Live@edu are therefore able to make significant savings on the hardware, software and management that would normally be associated with delivering such services.
London Grid for Learning estimates that the e-mail component alone could save a secondary school £18,000 p.a.
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Microsoft will store your Live@edu mailbox within the EU. The state of the art datacenter in Dublin serves UK customers.