Connect & Communicate
Connect and collaborate with your peers, communicate with the world. Your options are boundless … anytime, any place, and with any device
- Connecting to UW networks
- Email and calendaring
- Productivity Platforms
- Phones
- Television
- Web publishing
- UW Event Calendar
Connecting to UW networks
- Wireless internet access is available from wireless access points located throughout many buildings and common areas around campus, including secure encrypted Wi-Fi through Eduroam. Wi-Fi access is also available for visitors.
- Wired internet access is available in all residence rooms and Wi-Fi is available throughout many residence halls. See the guide to internet setup in student housing, and learn how to access UW networks from UW Housing.
- The UW-IT network management portal provides access to information about your network connecting and self-service administration of network services.
Email and calendaring
- The UW offers two email and calendaring systems available to all students, faculty and staff. UW Google Apps and Exchange Online both include email, calendaring, group calendaring capabilities, and contacts.
- A custom UW version of G Suite, UW Google Apps is available to the UW community which includes ad-free email, use of your @uw.edu address, calendaring, and many more collaboration tools.
- Exchange Online is the University of Washington’s Microsoft Exchange service that provides email, calendar, contacts and task management, as part as a service of Microsoft Office 365.
- A feature comparison helps you choose which email system is right for you.
- Use safe email practices, and report any abuse, harassment or suspicious email.
Productivity Platforms
- UW Office 365 is the University of Washington’s implementation of Microsoft Office 365 Education, a collection of online email, productivity, and collaboration services.
- UW G Suite for Education is a collection of online applications similar to Google’s consumer apps, but free of advertising and with greater privacy protection.
Phones
- The UW offers a “one rate” campus telephone service, which includes a handset, voicemail, softphone, long distance, and fax options.
- AVST Voicemail is available on all campus phones.
- A wide range of phone handsets can be found around campus, with quick-reference documentation available for many options, including ADA-compliant phones.
- A few audio/video conferencing options are available:
- UW Skype for Business is the University of Washington subscription to Skype for Business Online, a Microsoft O365 service. Audio/video participation is limited to only Skype users.
- UW Zoom is a cloud-based video conferencing service that allows you to host online courses, offer “virtual” office hours, and collaborate with colleagues.
- Basic audio-only conferencing is offered through the UW phone service for between 3 and 6 participants, and an on-demand conferencing bridge for up to 50 participants can be set up.
Television
- HuskyTV is a cable and streaming TV service for the UW Seattle campus, offering 130 channels of digital TV, 120 channels of live streaming TV, a cloud-based DVR, and access to HBO Go and other services.
- UWTV is a television channel offered by the UW, highlighting world-changing medical breakthroughs, scientific innovations, social science research, world-class artists, and outstanding students and athletes that are emerging from the UW every day.
Web publishing
- Review a detailed breakdown of what web publishing options are available through the UW, including:
- UW Google Apps provides the Google Sites platform, allowing you to easily create and publish a website of your own.
- UW Shared Web Hosting allows for web publishing on central UW servers, where you cancreate you own website, including installing WordPress or Drupal.
- UW Sites Network provides an easy-to-use, UW-branded and centrally administered WordPress website.
UW Event Calendar
The UW Event Calendar is a calendaring system for all campus public events and departmental calendars.
Last reviewed February 4, 2020
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