Benefits to the college

  • Can reduce operating costs compared with current email
  • Lets you offer online collaboration and email to students
  • Automatic backup and security is done by Microsoft
  • Boosts your college brand image with prospective students
  • 24 hour support from Microsoft for all users and administrators

Benefits to students (and staff or even alumni)

  • Live@edu lets students collaborate on work more easily, both inside and outside of the college and between staff and other students.
  • Students get access to Microsoft products such as Office Live .
  • Live@edu provides up to 10GB of storage for every user account.
  • By giving everyone a common email address with the college domain, Live@edu delivers a sense of being part of the college in a branded online environment.

Additional Benefits

  • Security of email is improved
  • Spam filters are in place to prevent unwanted emails
  • Users can access the email and files from mobile devices such as Smartphones and iPhones
  • Users can use a number of different email clients, from Outlook and Thunderbird to Internet Explorer and Firefox

Just some of the features of Live@edu

  • 10 GB inbox for every user
  • Spam and virus protection
  • Works with Outlook or other email clients
  • Ability to share calendars and contacts
  • Online access to Office tools
  • Windows SkyDrive