Harnessing the power of Microsoft’s Office 365 to provide a better social learning environment
In the summer of 2012 The University of West London set out to harness the immense potential of the free Cloud-based suite of collaboration tools, provided by Office 365, to create a personalised, interactive, social platform to support the institution’s mission to raise aspiration through the pursuit of excellence. Allowing students to combine social learning with academic study. The University won the UCISA Award for Excellence, 2012 for the service they have created.
This event will provide detail on what UWL wanted to achieve, how they accomplished it and a demonstration of capability and features. In addition Microsoft will share latest features for Office 365
Event Location:
Wednesday 10th July, Building 3, Memphis
Microsoft Campus
Thames Valley Park
Reading
Agenda
9:30am – Arrive and refreshments
9:50am – Welcome to Microsoft
10:00am – Introduction by VC of UWL
10:15am – Office 365 latest information– Microsoft
10:45am – UWL – Highway to Heaven– Adrian Ellison CIO UWL
11:30am – Break
11:45am - UWL – Presentation/Demonstration of environment
12:45pm – Lunch and networking
1:45pm – Fulcrum – Developing the portal (partner who worked with UWL)
2:30pm- Open Questions on UWL environment and Office 365
2:45pm- Break
3:00pm- Janet Amendments for Office 365 and Janet/Microsoft Alliance Agreement
3:20pm – Office 365 user group – introduction – Group discussion
3:45pm- Close
Event Registration
Please register using the following link . There are only 65 spaces available, so please ensure your customers register
https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&EventID=1032556481
Registration/Invitation Code - 7EA736