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New email services for students - LIVE@EDU

NTU and Microsoft have joined forces to provide students with access to Outlook Live a web based email service. From the start of the 2010/11 academic year NTU students will have their email and calendar activities migrated to Outlook live. This move will give students access to the latest Microsoft communication, whilst retaining an NTU email and calendar facility, student email addresses will change to:

Firstname.LastnameYearofEntry@my.ntu.ac.uk
eg - Joe.bloggs2010@my.ntu.ac.uk

Repeated names in a year would be dealt with by the addition of a number.
eg - Joe.bloggs022010@my.ntu.ac.uk

The benefits for providing students with Outlook Live include:

Give students an email address that uses the university domain
Offering students a unique mailbox that they can keep even after they graduate.

Email account includes:

10GB mailbox through Office Outlook Live
spam filtering
shared calendars and other features

Accessible everywhere

Live@edu is compatible with Windows, Macintosh, and Linux computers, and can be accessed on mobile devices.

Live@edu includes applications that can help collaboration, including:

Microsoft Office Live Workspace
Enables students to create their own sites to store, access, and share documents and files. Specifically designed to work with applications in the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Office Live Workspace has room for more than 1,000 files, and enhances a student's ability to work efficiently and collaborate with peers.
Windows Live SkyDrive
Students have an additional 25-GB, password-protected online storage space to share documents among devices and with other students. Students can set up personal and shared folders within their SkyDrive and turn shared access on or off. However it must be noted that SkyDrive is not backed up by NTU and if a file is deleted it is not possible to retrieve it.
Windows Live Messenger
Office Outlook Live interoperates with Live Messenger to enable users to keep in touch with friends and family by using the communication methods that they want to use: email or chat.
Windows Live Spaces
This enables users to create personal Web sites in minutes, including blogs, forums, music lists, and photo albums to share with classmates and friends. Students can also display their SkyDrive contents to more easily share projects and files. When it’s time to put their education to work, students can set up e-profiles for prospective employers.
Microsoft SharedView Beta
You can share your computer screen with up to 15 people in different locations by using SharedView beta. Review and update documents with multiple people in real time or give presentations remotely, easily sharing document or application views on your computer.
Help keep your students safe online
Live@edu includes features and policies to protect the privacy of your students' communications. For example, the e-mail services include anti-phishing technologies and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)–encrypted authentication. In addition, Live@edu policies prohibit third-party banner ads in e-mail and the sharing of information with third parties unless the student opts in.

Get the most from LIVE@edu with these guides

Conditions of use

An email account for life is available to all registered students, and Alumni, of NTU. Once opened, the account will remain so for life unless the user breaches: