Email and Collaboration Services

Microsoft 365

Microsoft Teams is the primary collaboration and productivity tool in Microsoft 365.  It provides an easy-to-use interface that utilizes the OneDrive and SharePoint technologies together.  With Teams, users can chat with individuals or groups, hold video meetings, make audio/video calls, store files and share them internally or externally, and integrate with other M365 applications. Please refer to JMU's University Data Storage Standard regarding highly confidential data in Teams. 

Cloud service in M365 that is for individual storage of public or protected data. As per JMU's University Data Storage Standard, highly confidential data is prohibited from being stored in or shared from OneDrive.

Students, employees, and affiliates have access to OneDrive and may share documents, files, and/or folders with users inside and outside of the University using the service.  

Students and employees have access to Teams and are able to create and manage their own team(s). When a team is created, a SharePoint site is automatically created on the back-end as the file storage location for that team.

LISTSERV

LISTSERV software enables e-mail users to create and maintain large e-mail lists.

Zoom Meetings and Rooms

Zoom a cloud-based web conferencing tool for video and audio conferencing, collaboration, chat, and webinars across mobile devices, desktops, telephones, and room systems. Zoom allows you to meet face-to-face using HD video conferencing; share your desktop, documents, or individual applications with everyone in the meeting. It provides collaboration with people within and outside JMU.

JMU Faculty, Staff and Student Email

An email system for students, employees and affiliates that includes email, calendar, and contact management services based on Microsoft 365 and can be accessed from a computer, web browser, or mobile client.

Bulk Email

Bulk emails can be used to send information electronically to students and employees.