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Microsoft, ePals team up on collaborative tools
By Jared
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Under the terms of the alliance, epals this fall will add Microsoft’s Live@edu
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Sometime early next year, epals users will have access to the web-based versions of Microsoft Office
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For microsoft, the deal help it address several key concerns such as security they have kept some educators from using “cloud based” software.
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Epals customers will be able to take advantage of popular productivity software.
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The deal seems to make sense for both companies, and it could benefit schools as well.
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Integrating Microsoft software into the epals Learning Space will involve adding the kinds of policy-management tools to these applications that have made epals so popular among educators.
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A teacher could specify that he or she must review any documents before they can be emailed or shared with another class across the globe.
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Epals users will have access to online versions of popular Microsoft software within a secure learning environment.
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Several epals customers said that their students much more often now that they’re using collaborative tools in their classes.
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This could help faster the kinds of 21st century skills that today’s employers say they’re looking for hiring.
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Adding their kinds of policy-management capabilities to Microsoft’s ubiquitous productivity software could facilitate communication and collaboration in K-12 classrooms dramatically.
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When using the online version of Microsoft Word within the epals Learning Space could set up a policy rule specifying when a document is created, it should be routed automatically to another student for his or her peer review
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It could help increase the amount of writing that students do in class.
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The Epals Learning Space provides safe virtual workspaces for school that include email, blogs, wikis, shared portfolios, media galleries, and language in 35 languages.
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Integrating Live@edu into its platform will bring additional capabilities to epals school mail.
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Live@edu is a free suite of online tools, based on the familiar office applications many people use today.
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The solution will allow schools to set up sophisticated policy-based controls that regulate which students and teachers can email.
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A familiar outlook interface on both mobile phones and computers, as well as dynamic distribution groups.
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The solution will also allow schools to share information with each other for security purposes.