This Thursday, 1st March (St. David’s day, if you’re Welsh!), and again on the 6th of March, we’ll be running a webcast where you can learn about some of the different methods and tools there are to aid your migration to the cloud!
The webcast will cover both services at a high level and there’ll be plenty of opportunity to ask questions!
Session 1
Session 2
You can also download the hand-outs from both sessions:
Already using Live@edu or Office 365?
How did you do it and what challenges did you face? Come along to the webcast and share your migration tips!
If you can’t make it that’s no problem, let us know how you did it in the comments below!
Moodlerooms, Inc., has developed an integration connecting Microsoft’s Live@edu services and Moodle, the world’s most widely-used Learning Management System. With this integration, Moodlerooms makes the rich functionality of Live@edu directly accessible within the Moodle 2.0 and 1.9 environments via single sign-on.
The plug-in for Moodle allows users to log into courses using their Windows Live ID; view and compose emails and calendar events, chat using Windows Live Messenger and search using Bing™ all from within a Moodle class site.
You can download the free plugin directly from Moodle.org. Give it a go today!
Are you using Live@edu with Moodle?
Are you currently using the Live Services Plugin? How do you use use Live@edu with your Moodle environment? Let us know in the comments!
Please see attached…
Ok, put your hands up. Who still sends files as attachments in their email?
Come on, be honest!
I’m guilty of it myself – just ask my boss, after I dropped a 7MB “email bomb” on him recently. Despite having both SharePoint Online and SkyDrive at my fingertips there are times I find myself slipping back into the “old” way of sharing files.
The life of an attachment (skip ahead)
SkyDrive is free!
And with Live@edu every single user gets one because they already have a Windows Live ID. So why not start sharing files that way – you can share with anyone, not just people inside your institution. Download the SkyDrive Gadget for Xobni and send links to your documents on SkyDrive right from Outlook.
You can find out more about how much attachments suck over at the SkyDrive site, including how you can be a great friend in letting others know how they can avoid clogging up your inbox with their attachments, too!
How do you share files?
Have you been using SkyDrive for a while? Do you have some other clever trick for avoiding those large attachments? Let us know in the comments!
Measure twice, cut once…
“Keep it as long as you can, as long as you can”, the 6 Ps* – whichever adage you use to prevent making a mistake there’ll always be that time when you let one little thing slip. Maybe it’s accidentally hitting send on a email to your boss telling them what you really think of them, or sending sensitive information out to the wrong people. Chances are it has happened to all of us at one point or another. The good news is it doesn’t have to happen again!
In Microsoft Outlook you can set up some simple rules to delay the delivery of a message so that you always have a safety window to go back and check or edit a message before it actually goes! Personally, I have my Outlook client set to delay by 1 minute, and it has never let me down! This is especially useful if you forgot to attach something, missed off a recipient or made a spelling mistake.
You can find out more about how to configure this for your version of Outlook here:
Total Recall
Of course, sometimes even a delay isn’t enough – but there is one feature up our sleeve that might be able to help. The recall feature of Microsoft Outlook tries to stop delivery and, optionally, replace an email message that you have already sent to another Microsoft Exchange Server user within your institution. While not 100% guaranteed to stop a message being read, if you’re an Exchange user (if you’re using Outlook Live as part of Live@edu, or Exchange Online as part of Office 365, then that’s you!) you can always try it as a last resort.
As above, you can find out more information about the message recall feature here:
Now you should have all the safeguards in place to ensure that you always say what you mean to say, and to whoever you mean to say it!
*Proper Planning Prevents Pretty Poor Performance
How do you do it?
Ever fallen foul of the send button? Do you have a different technique for delaying and avoiding embarrassment? Let us know in the comments!