ITS provides students with IT resources that support teaching and learning, wherever that may occur. Below is information about how to learn, communicate, and collaborate wherever and whenever.
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Microsoft Teams is a collaboration and productivity tool that is included with Office 365. With teams, you can chat with individual or groups, hold video meetings, store and share files, and connect with other third-party solutions. More information is available on the getting started page.
Google Hangouts Meet
Hangouts Meet is a video-conferencing tool that is available to all UConn faculty, staff, and students through G Suite. This tool enables you to host and join video meetings on your chosen device and is integrated with the tools in G Suite, allowing you to send meeting invitations from Gmail and Google calendar and save recorded meetings to Google Drive. See more information about how to host, join, and manage this app.
Access UConn Software
Students Download: You can download select software for both university, and personally-owned computers at software.uconn.edu. Under available software, select Studentsfaculty or staff. You will see all of the university-licensed software available to you. When you click on an individual product, you can find out more information about it as well as begin the download process.
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NEW: Adobe is enabling at-home access to Creative Cloud until May 31, 2020. To get access, complete this request form. |
Online: You can also access software through the browser of many internet-connected devices through AnyWare. With Desktop, you connect to a virtual desktop that includes all the available software, and in Apps, you can select only the applications you wish to use.
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AnyWare 2.0, our newest virtual offering, provides a virtual desktop experience and saves your settings and preference between sessions.
Lab Access: If you need access to software that you would typically use on a Windows computer in a UConn lab, you can schedule time to access a lab computer remotely.
Store your documents
As a student you can store your documents on the two cloud-hosted options available to you, Microsoft OneDrive or Google Drive. You also can use the UConn personal (P) drive but will need to establish a VPN connection and map to the drive.
Google Drive: You can store your files securely and open or edit them from any device using Google Drive. You have unlimited storage with your university account.
OneDrive: You have access to this cloud-hosted storage through your Office 365 account.
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