Collaboration Tools
It's more important than ever to keep our community connected. Through implementing collaboration tools, OIT helps to create a way to continue working and learning together, while apart.
Zoom License Expansion
OIT worked quickly with Zoom to expand campus licensing to include all faculty, staff, and students. A set of special licenses (“webinar” licenses) were also acquired for the support of large classrooms, which exceed the participation limit in normal Zoom meetings.
ZOOM USER INCREASED
2,974%
FROM FEBRUARY TO MARCH
“I would like to extend our appreciation for the amazing work done ... during this unprecedented time of moving to a remote environment. ...This new product has a lot more features and controls than our normal Zoom product … [you] quickly and confidently trained our student leaders on its functionality. I could not thank [you] enough.”
Brice Ken Kikuchi, Associate Vice Chancellor, Auxiliary Services | Student Affairs
ZotMail Surge
OIT, along with many other campus units, used OIT’s Zotmail system intensively in March to communicate guidelines, updates, plans, advice, and announcements. The Zotmail system processed over six million individual email messages to campus faculty, staff, and students, largely in the final two weeks as we migrated to remote work.
Microsoft Teams Rollout
Microsoft Teams is a collaboration suite allowing live collaboration (text, audio, video), file sharing, and pre-defined and ad-hoc conversation “channels”. OIT had been piloting Microsoft Teams since late 2019 but quickly built the infrastructure out for use by other campus units.