To support and promote greater collaboration across our institution, KU IT is developing a service where faculty, staff, researchers, and students can exchange information, discuss common interests, share files, and more.
SharePoint provides:
- Online collaboration and project management tool for work teams and other groups.
- An online forum where people with common interests can share information, collaborate, and build partnerships to explore and advance ideas and projects across departments and disciplines.
Project and Team Sites:
Project and Team sites will provide an online productivity space where work and project teams can collaborate, share and edit documents, manage deadlines, post links, hold discussions, and more. Features include:
- File sharing
- Document collaboration and simultaneous editing
- Calendars
- Task and action item tracking
- Issue tracking
- Timelines
- Data capture and management
- Storage for team documents
- Integration with Outlook
Community Sites:
Community Sites will bring together faculty, researchers, staff, and students who have diverse knowledge, experience, and skills in shared areas of interest. Across KU, community members can collaborate, share ideas, ask and answer questions, and exchange information to advance their knowledge. By sharing information and experiences within a Community Site, members learn from each other and develop personally and professionally.
A Community Site, for example, might focus on water, a topic of wide interest. Participants in the Water Community Site might represent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Geology, Engineering, Geography, Environmental Studies, History, Architecture, Design and Planning, Economics, Chemistry, Urban Planning, Anthropology, Law and more. All would bring perspectives from their own disciplines to the discussion about water, generating new ideas, innovation, and potential partnerships.