Microsoft Campus Collaboration Services​ in India

Anjani Saraswat
5 min readMar 5, 2021

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Our Education System: We as a growing country are setting up various platforms to evolve our education needs in our campuses.​

We make students learn new things new curriculum but somehow going round of our subject materials.​

World faced pandemic then we understood about the learning path of taking education onto the digital platform​

And end up making an audio video conferencing, setting up assignments, having classroom activities like managing databases in all the different places so as to continue our classes.​

The most important thing schools can do is not to use technology in the curriculum more, but to use it more effectively- Bill Gates​

Being an Education & Learning Partner of Microsoft, we are taking an initiative to provide schools with one stop solution for all their activities of setting their campuses related to branding, marketing, certifications, learning and technologies.​

  • Framed Certificate for the Campus from Microsoft Office Singapore.​
  • Memorandum Of Understanding(MOU) will be signed with Microsoft ​
  • Campus name will be mentioned on Microsoft Association portal.​
  • Hoardings and Board for Microsoft Certified Campus will be available.​
  • Marketing: Digital Marketing services will include managing social media handles with 365 days creative content.​
  • Online promotion within a range of 10 km​
  • Paid promotion activities with a reach of 1 lakh people​
  • Connect in a more personalized way with OBD application share both informational and promotional calls​

Microsoft In Education

Mission:​

  • Help transform education to empower students, teachers and campuses to do more and achieve more.​

Priorities:​

  • Access to the latest learning content on Microsoft technologies​
  • Faculty and students can access Office Suite on 5 different devices.​
  • Collaborate and cocreate content for classes, assignments & Projects.​
  • Campus Mobility & Security​
  • Microsoft Accessibility improves learning​
  • Microsoft Office 365 suite for all the users​

Transform learning with Microsoft Teams as Microsoft Virtual Classroom by creating teams and managing all the activities at one place, quickly sharing assignments, distributing and providing grades, empower students voice with rich conversations and videos content, live sessions interaction with 300 participants easily and conducting webinars help interaction with 20000 participants, customize the classroom by easy creating content with embedded office applications​

  • Enhancing reading & learning ability of students with Immersive Reader​
  • Innovative tools such as dictation and editors in Microsoft Office applications help increase focus, concentration & understanding​
  • Stay efficient & organized with applications like One Note- Class Notebook & Staff notebook provides personalized learning, OneDrive and Outlook and more help store, sort, search and share content​
  • Engage your students with 21st Century learning tools which will make them future ready​
  • Data analysis, policy creation and admin management​
  • Empower your educators by providing the global recognition as Microsoft Innovative Educator​
  • Optimize the campus operations by setting an Intelligent Cloud​

Distinctive features of Microsoft Technology in Education​

Infrastructure:​

  • Unlimited Windows upgrades for the campus.​
  • Campus is being benefitted by different set of Cloud Storage for all the users.​
  • Network setup will be made within a campus for information sharing​
  • 1 Tera Byte Storage for all the users on One Drive keeping all the databases at one place.​
  • No size limitation of sharing and uploading files or documents on OneDrive.​
  • 50 GB of mail sharing capacity for all the users. ​
  • 500 GB storage for all the users help storing the recorded sessions, adding subtitles, enabling the privacy access on Stream.​
  • Transforming campus as Cloud Premises and Collaboration with all new 21st century tools & technologies.​
  • Unlike in other platforms like Google there is a combined space for storing all the documents or files on G- Drive.​
  • In Microsoft, a dedicated space is allocated for emails, cloud storage and recorded session​

​Communication & Collaboration:​

  • Information sharing become easy by creating distribution groups​
  • Collaboration of accessing the files is simple and easy​
  • Microsoft provides SharePoint application through which students and teachers can have collaboration on a file & document in real time from different places​
  • Sharing can be done ​
  • Sharing files or documents through G- drive the mandatory option is to have Gmail accounts​
  • In Microsoft Office 365 for an end user accessing cloud files Microsoft account is not mandatory​

Features of Microsoft Technologies

  • User ID at your own school domain name
  • Unlimited Email Id’s for students and teachers​
  • Live attendance, Whiteboard ​
  • Audit reports for all user activity ​
  • School Data Synchronize facility
  • Individual and group user policy for all user in order to monitor and control the user activity ​
  • Fully customized platform as per school requirement
  • Integration with LMS​

Compatibility of Microsoft Documents

In Microsoft where we use extensions for different applications as .xlsx, .pptx and docx are much compatible with all the varied platforms and applications​

Whereas extensions provided in Google documents are not much user friendly or compatible in different platforms and applications.​

Security​

Microsoft stores the data in an encrypted format onto Azure server and so there is no chance of data breach where we do hear data breach news in Google & Zoom platforms.​

Microsoft Innovative Educator​

  • Microsoft Innovative Educators program provides insight for Microsoft on new products and tools for education ​
  • Professional and career development opportunities and certifications​
  • 180 plus courses certifications​
  • Collaborate with innovative educators across the globe using Microsoft Teams in the Classroom
  • Host regional events showcasing uses of Microsoft technology in the classroom​
  • Join invitation-only special events from Microsoft ​
  • Receive publicity and promotion via social media and other Microsoft channels by participating in their events and clearing the exams setups ​
  • Work to achieve excellence in education using advanced technologies and social media​
  • Inspiring students with outside-the box thinking and a true collaborative spirit​

Learning & Education Partner​

We as Acetians Technologies Pvt Ltd Microsoft Authorized Education Partner appreciates and say thanks to all our teachers who took the challenge of taking the education to the next level and upgraded the education system with the changing technologies.​

We believe that every institution is unique, including IT needs, capabilities and objective. As a provider we offer services for every engagement is custom designed to meet the specific requirements and goals ​

Today is a time of Education 4.0 the complete digitalization and if we will provide technology to our students from their basic learning level then we will make one complete generation ready to adapt the future technology.​

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Anjani Saraswat

Cloud Consultant and Azure Architect at Acetians Technologies Private Limited