Queensland students go Live with Microsoft
Queensland students go Live with Microsoft
March 18, 2009:Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is adopting the Microsoft Live@Edu solution for email for its 40,000 students, providing access to Outlook Live, Office Live Workspace and SkyDrive storage.
QUT’s Professor Tom Cochrane, Deputy Vice Chancellor for the Division of Technology, Information and Learning Support, said the University carefully considered various options.
“The Live@edu service offers our students the advantage of a greatly increased mailbox capacity and attachment file size, a useful calendar, plus a number of improvements in related services, while retaining their identity asQUT students in their email addresses,” Professor Cochrane said.
“As well as enhanced services to students, the University will benefit by having automated service upgrades, and better scalability and availability by deploying this software as a service offering from Microsoft.”
The Live@edu service will host student email accounts with increased mailbox capacity (10GB) and 20MB attachments as well as calendaring and contact management.
Other features available through Live@edu include: Windows Live Messenger instant messaging and file sharing; Windows Live Spaces for personal web publishing, blogging and photo sharing; andFolderShare , a private peer-to-peer network that allows users to synchronise files between multiple devices and share files with other student users.