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.