Microsoft are making some improvements to their current live@edu services in the new year around the Outlook Web App, Exchange Management Console and spam/anti virus protection. Notification: February 2011 Service Update We are pleased to announce the upcoming deployment of the February 2011 Service Update. This service update will include the addition of several features … Continue reading Update to live@edu on its way in February
Yesterday I posted ‘Office 365 Videos from TechEd Europe’ but there is also another session on live@edu. I hope that you enjoy this session too. Microsoft Live@edu: Moving Your School Communication and Collaboration to the Cloud Continue reading live@edu Video from TechEd 2010
A few years ago I was able to attend TechEd Europe and really enjoy the week I spent in Barcelona learning more about SharePoint and other products Microsoft offer. This year Microsoft have released most of the sessions online for you to watch. Here is a collection of all the Office 365 videos. A Walkthrough … Continue reading Office 365 Videos from TechEd Europe
More information has come out from Microsoft this week around Office 365 for Education. As mentioned in a previous post we only had limited information but during the past week Microsoft had a presentation day for Higher Education establishments which included a presentation on live@edu and Office 365 for Education. The slides from the presentation … Continue reading More information on Office 365 for Education
Congratulation to Brandon Scott @brandonscott3 who has one a MSDN subscription worth over £7,000. Here’s Brandon’s story “During the summer of 2010, we heavily relied upon Microsoft Deployment Toolkit to re-image our ten IT rooms, netbooks and other computers around the school (in total 800). It was lovely to simply boot into the network and … Continue reading MSDN Subscription.. and the winner is…
In recent months I have had numerous discussions about what the differences are between a Virtual Learning Environment, a Learning Gateway and a Learning Platform. Other conversations I have had is ‘What should I name my environment?’ So what is the difference? VLE A Virtual Learning Environment is a teaching tool that can assist you … Continue reading VLE, Learning Gateway or Learning Platform?
We’ve had a quick look at the basic services of Office 365 for Education but what information do we already know about the services when it launches. Email Mailboxes are increasing in size for their current size of 10GB in live@edu to 25GB with the send attachment now increased to 25MB per email. You will … Continue reading What do we already know about Office 365 for Education?
Today I took an online exam around the current services available in live@edu. Its free!! Within the 34 question exam you are tested on the following General Live@edu Services Office Live Workspace Outlook Live and Windows Live Hotmail Windows Live Groups Windows live Messenger Windows Live SkyDrive Windows Live Spaces Why not go test your … Continue reading Become a live@edu Certified Master Teacher
In the past week Microsoft have released news regarding their new BPOS (Business Productivity Online Services) which is their online services available to business which include Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint. Previously in the year Microsoft released the latest versions of their productivity suites such as Office 2010, Exchange 2010 and SharePoint 2010. These services are … Continue reading Office 365 and live@edu
Having spent many years in schools there has always been a question that has been asked by a member of the teaching staff, ‘Can you get more than one person to open my Excel tracking sheet at the same time?’. Most schools will have Excel spread sheets that have information about pupil estimated grades, predicted … Continue reading Can you get more than one person to open my subject tracking sheet?