University of Nicosia invests in student success with Microsoft Live@edu

The University of Nicosia, in co-operation with Microsoft, is providing all its students with the hosted email service Live@edu that allows students, faculty and staff to easily collaborate, store documents and photos, manage class schedules, and stay connected for life.
This new communication and collaboration environment includes the actual e-mail service, an online data storage known as Skydrive and a Microsoft Office document repository portal known as Office Live. This service is being provided free and does not have an expiration date. Both new and returning students will be provided with Live@edu accounts that they will keep during their university term and beyond.
The University of Nicosia now joins thousands of other schools in more than 86 countries around the world that have chosen Live@edu as a platform for student communication and collaboration. This serves as a private, security-enhanced and familiar platform for Microsoft applications and web-based offerings, at no cost to the university or its students. It allows students to access documents from any computer with an Internet connection, collaborate with other students on documents and projects in a password-protected workspace, store large numbers of documents, photos and multimedia materials, and connect to Microsoft Office applications via the web. It also allows the University of Nicosia to provide these communication tools in a managed environment, helping ensure student data is kept more safe, security-enhanced and private.
“The University of Nicosia is committed to advanced Information Technologies. Live@edu is not just an e-Mail replacement; it is a powerful communication and collaboration tool that we will be using either independently or together with the existing Learning Management System to improve the efficiency of teaching and productivity,” said Dr. Dmitry Apraksin, Head of the Computer Center at the University of Nicosia.
“The variety of ways that Live@Edu can be managed makes integration with existing information systems very easy and effective. Because of this, related administrative costs were brought, in our case, down to zero. Since we already do user management for students and faculty, the interface with Live@edu was easy and user accounts were synchronised automatically without any additional administrative work.”