Provide your campus community with anywhere, anytime connectivity, presence and unified messaging on phones, smartphones, PDAs, PCs, Macs and Linux – across wired and wireless networks.

Familiar interfaces
An intuitive and consistent user experience across notebooks, desktops and mobiles.
Students and faculty find it easier to study, stay in touch and learn, regardless of the device they’re using.

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Windows Mobile
Windows Internet Explorer
Windows Vista

Find people and information
Powerful enterprise search features and secure connectivity from anywhere.
The right people have easy access to the right documents, podcasts, files and online spaces. Easily find an email in Microsoft Office Outlook, a paper on a campus server or the latest research on the Internet.

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Windows Desktop Search
Windows Live Search
Windows Live Academic Search

Intuitive software
Software allows people to intuitively take the next step - from sending an email to making a phone call, finding an online document or publishing a video on their blog site - right from where they are working.
It’s easy to switch between modes and presence enables them to see who is available and the best way to communicate.

Technologies
Windows Mobile
Windows Internet Explorer
Windows Vista

Equip faculty and students with the tools to produce world-class papers, theses, assignments, lectures, tutorials, presentations and exhibitions of their work.

Powerful publishing
The new capabilities of Microsoft Office 2007 make it easier for faculty and students to produce professionally formatted and annotated assignments, theses, research papers, spreadsheets and presentations without having to invest major amounts of time to achieve impressive results.

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Microsoft Office System

All notes in one place
Capture lecture notes, record video, audio, handwritten notes, images and relevant files in one place.
Using Microsoft Office OneNote and OneNote Mobile, notes can be shared with others and easily searched, making it simple to reference them later for assignments, tutorials and exams.
OneNote can also be used for the creation and delivery of materials and dynamic, wiki-like collaboration.

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Microsoft Office OneNote

Powerful design tools for print, online, animation, video, etc.
Microsoft professional design tools and innovative technologies give students and faculty the flexibility and freedom to bring their visions to reality - whether they are designing standards-based Web sites, rich user experiences on the desktop or managing digital assets and content.

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Microsoft Expression Studio
Microsoft Photo Story
Windows Movie Maker
Microsoft Producer

Create learning applications
Microsoft developer and designer tools make it simple to build next-generation interactive Web applications featuring rich multimedia and videostreaming. Data can be integrated from different sources and made accessible online in intuitive interfaces.

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Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft Visual Studio
Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer
Microsoft Expression Blend
Microsoft Expression Design
Microsoft Expression Media
Microsoft Expression Web

Keep project teams aligned
Microsoft provides robust project management tools which enable you to easily keep research teams informed and control project work, schedules and finances. You can also be more productive through integration with familiar Microsoft Office programs, powerful reporting, guided planning and flexible tools.

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Microsoft Office Project

Visualise, explore and communicate complex information
Faculty and students can communicate complicated text and tables at a glance. Instead of static pictures, they can create data-connected Visio diagrams that display data and are easy to refresh, dramatically increasing understanding. A wide variety of diagram options makes it easy to explain, act on and share information about anything - from an in-depth project, to a new workflow.

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Microsoft Office Visio

Multimedia tutorials and digital books
Faculty can easily create multimedia tutorials and examinations, featuring video, animation, sound and text. These can be published online for authorised students to review or streamed during class time.
Digital textbooks can also be created which include documents and media which interact with your desktop applications.

Technologies
Windows Presentation Foundation
Microsoft Visual Studio
Microsoft Expression Blend
Microsoft Expression Design
Microsoft Expression Media
Microsoft Expression Web

Protect your rights
Encryption enables you to protect your preliminary research findings as well as student records.
The Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office enables you to embed a Creative Commons licence into any document you create using Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint or Excel.
With a Creative Commons licence, authors can express their intentions regarding how their works may be used by others.

Technologies
Microsoft Office System

Provide faculty, students and alumni with the ability to communicate in the ways that suit them best with unified messaging, presence, instant messaging, voice, video and audio conferencing integrated into the Microsoft software they use every day.

All your communications in one place
Microsoft solutions integrate email, PABX, VoIP, voicemail, faxes and calendar synchronisation across devices. Real-time presence with directory information makes it simple to stay in touch.
Faculty and students working on a shared file can see the presence of everyone associated with it and click to connect with instant messaging - right from the document, not just the address book.

Technologies
Microsoft Office Communicator

Videoconferences
Microsoft Office RoundTable is a tabletop integrated conference phone and camera that automatically spotlights who’s participating and provides 360-degree panoramic images of everyone who’s participating. Share presentations, whiteboards and files as you collaborate and record conferences for later.
Microsoft Office Communicator 2007, a unified communications client, enables researchers, faculty and students to stay in touch using instant messages, video and voice from directly within the 2007 Microsoft Office System.

Technologies
Microsoft Office Communicator
Microsoft Office RoundTable
Microsoft Office Live Meeting

Email: two options
1. Microsoft Exchange Server provides secure, encrypted email with easy rights management.
Students and faculty can send and receive email and access their voicemail and calendars from their mobiles as well as virtually any Web-connected computer.
It’s simple to administer and you can self-host or have a partner host it for you. Protective technologies reduce spam and viruses.

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Microsoft Exchange Server

Email: two options
2. Microsoft Live@edu is a hosted software and service solution which gives you complimentary Windows Live Hotmail accounts for students and faculty with 5GB storage, antispam technologies, Microsoft Office Outlook client access, mobile access and much more - all in a familiar, friendly interface.

Both solutions support Office Outlook and Entourage and Webmail through Outlook Web Access and Windows Live Mail.

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Microsoft Live@edu

Instant messaging: two options
1. Microsoft Office Communications Server provides self-hosted, secure instant messaging which you can federate with public IM Networks (Yahoo, Microsoft) and other institutions.
Enjoy real-time communication with presence, making it easy for students to know who is online and their location.
Query tutors, ask questions of helpdesk staff or discuss projects with other students.

Technologies
Microsoft Office Communications Server

Instant messaging: two options
2. Windows Live Messenger is part of our complimentary suite of Microsoft Live@edu offerings.
It opens up the world’s most popular IM network to all your students.
It is very useful for broadcasting changes to lecture times, weather and security alerts, and in many instances, it is being used to poll student opinion.

Technologies
Windows Live Messenger
Windows Live Alerts

Podcasts and webcasts
Students and faculty can easily create and view podcasts and webcasts on a PC, mobile device or music player.
RSS feeds are integrated into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server enabling students to know when a new podcast has been posted.
They can quickly select which lecture they need to review; scan, fast-forward to specific points or sections, and listen to any lecture multiple times.

Technologies
Windows Server
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
Microsoft Exchange Server

Provide faculty, students, research teams and alumni with rich possibilities for collaboration online through MySites, Web portals, wikis, blogs, shared files and workspaces.

Blogs
Students can use blogs containing video, photos, journal entries and much more to reflect on experiences, such as overseas travel or research, or to create their own portfolio of work.
Blogs are also ideal for keeping in touch with alumni or continuing class discussions with students, who can further their findings with links to relevant evidence.

Technologies
Windows Live Spaces
Windows Live Writer
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

Digital content management
Organise and classify videos, audio recordings, course notes and lectures within a secure centralised document repository.
Your valuable multimedia can then be easily searched and retrieved ready to edit, update and share across your campus and with other institutions.
Lecturers can easily exchange learning resources and assignments with students using a managed workflow process that reminds them what actions to take next.

Technologies
Microsoft Office System
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
Microsoft Office InfoPath

Wikis
Scholarship never ends. There is never a last word even about established facts.
With Microsoft technology you can easily create open-ended online wiki articles, where academics can track the evolution of ideas, research and theories, along with a record of their authors and links to associated works and documents.

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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

Web portals
It’s easy to set up personalised workspaces and portfolios for academics and students where they can access and search documents, email, reports, research, campus news, etc - all in one place. You manage all the portals centrally, and they personalise the look and feel.
Academics can upload class resources to a document library for each class or even send documents to students through Microsoft SharePoint Learning Kit.
Students can submit their assignments online, initiating workflow for marking.

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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

Store and share
Students and academics can store and share thousands of documents in real time across campus or the world with anyone who’s invited. Check for presence and then click to call or message right from your secure workspace.
Organise an online meeting or tutorial where you can track attendees and share
files as you go - even if students are in an unsecured environment like at home or an Internet café.

Technologies
Windows Live Spaces
Windows Live SkyDrive
Microsoft Office Live Workspace
Windows Live SharedView

Collaborate easily
Microsoft Office Live Workspace enables students and academics to store thousands of Microsoft Office documents in one place and access them from almost any computer with a Web browser.
They can invite other students or faculty to share their workspace and control who views, comments on and edits their documents. They can also open and save files directly from Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint and synchronise contact, task and event lists with Microsoft Office Outlook.

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Microsoft Office Live Workspace

Create a stable, secure, scalable IT environment with simple identity management across multiple accounts and support your students and staff with email, calendaring, contacts, tasks and encryption.