Communication and collaboration

The Online & Digital Events Service helps you choose the best tool for running your event and provides information to help you make your event a success.

Information about email services for University of Edinburgh staff and students.

Microsoft's Office 365 suite combines email, calendar, OneDrive file storage, Office Online apps, as well as other collaboration products available to all University staff and students.

The Business Reporting & Analytics service offers and supports a range of Business Intelligence (BI) tools to encourage and makes possible evidence-based, quantitative and predictive decision-making.

SharePoint Online is a mobile-friendly technology platform included in the University's Microsoft Office 365 offering. It is used for collaboration through intranet and communication sites, document and records management spaces, and workflow process automation.

A comprehensive guide to the University of Edinburgh’s telephone service.

MyEd is the University of Edinburgh's web portal. It is a gateway to web-based services within and beyond the University and offers a personalised set of content with single sign on to key University services such as Learn and Office365.

“A wiki is a web application that allows collaborative modification, extension, or deletion of its content and structure”. Source: Wikipedia

Hybrid Meeting Spaces are available across the University Estate and may be booked by all members of staff.

The Event Booking service is an administrative tool for the scheduling of internal courses, allowing available course searches and online booking.

The University of Edinburgh’s Managed Mobile Service offers flexible packages on a range of smartphones and mobile devices for staff. This is a service for University business and not open for personal usage or obtaining a contract for personal use. The service is only available to Staff, Visiting Staff and Postgraduate Researches. As a result our information pages require a login (via EASE) so that only these designated groups have visibility.

The Electronic Voting & Electoral System (EVES) helps Information Services deliver a secure and reliable online (or paper) balloting service to election providers. The process, audit and count report supplied is approved by University Court and the Electoral Reform Society, conforming to Electoral Reform Society guidelines for single-seat (transferrable) or multi-seat (WIGM STV) elections.

UniDesk is used for logging, tracking and reporting on service incidents.

A Committee Intranet is effectively a restricted Document and Content Management System, specifically for Committee information and papers.

This service allows you to send and receive SMS messages to/from mobile telephones.