Any way you calculate it, Microsoft Live@edu adds up to a great value. With a variety of free and low-cost setup options, you can with the help of Business Mechanix choose the one that's right for your school.

• You retain administrative control while concerns and costs of storage, spam-filtering, backups, and updates are removed
• Frees your IT team to pursue more strategic projects
• Your students and alumni receive world-class e-mail
  and Web applications that they can enjoy after
  graduation and for much less than the cost of hosting
  an on-premise system

Extend your school safely on to the internet by creating a designated area online for just your students, teachers and parents. Let the school provide the social network tools needed for everyone connected to the school today to be connected tomorrow. It can be done so easily with these tools:

• Each class or group, like the 1st XV, can create their own webpage with pictures, videos, comments and updates
• Timetabling and scheduling through the shared calenders assist anything from lunch monitoring through school field trips
• Shared calenders to keep your students, teachers and parents up to date on up coming events such as parent & teaching interview, school balls and other social events
• A safe place for students, staff and parents to share ideas, documents, photos and interact with each other through online workspaces like student idea forums and sport team pages
• Students can create e-portfolios and personal profiles for prospective employers
• Ask a question with instant messaging and get immediate feedback from an another student, designated teacher or a whole tutorial group
• Rapidly find and sort articles from thousands of academic and research journals

Open transparent communication through different media is important for teaching and learning. Live@edu allows parents, teachers and students to communicate with these tools:

• FREE Outlook Live™ email account for life hosted by Microsoft
• Accounts are protected by Microsoft's spam and virus prevention
• Students and teachers can access email and instant messenger on their Web-enabled mobile devices
• 10GB mailbox size and 50MB attachment size
• Target your communication to selected groups such as school sports team, social commitees e.g. school ball commity
• Allow parents access to a student's school life
• Keep past students connected by letting them keep their email address once they leave
• Similar interface to Microsoft® Office Outlook®, so students develop skills they can transfer to the workforce
• Students and school staff can easily update their contact details and notify colleagues and friends of changes

All your teaching and learning documents conveniently stored in one place, readably available from anywhere with internet access. Never be stuck without your documents or files when you need them with these tools:

• 25 GB of storage space - called SkyDrive™ - per user online provided FREE by Microsoft
• Homework and assignments can be accessed from anywhere online, so the days of transferring files on flash drives may be at an end
• Students and teachers can set up personal and shared folders to share homework and assignments
  
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Sharing information and ideas have never been easier. Work together to achieve amazing teaching and learning results and experiences with these tools:

• Give your school's staff the opportunity to engage with their fellow teachers, students and parents in new ways
• Work on curriculum development with other teachers such as lesson plan and syllabus preperation
• Video chat for one to one communication online for distance learning
• Multiple people can work on the same assignment from different locations, editing it, reviewing and making changes
• Save and share up to 25 GB of homework and assignments
• Each student can have a personal calendar to share - or keep private
• Students can set up study groups, tutors can arrange meeting times, and alumni can set up reunions with ease
• A simple way to instantly notify groups, individuals or all participating members of school groups on their mobile devices with sports and club announcements or any other class changes

Live@edu fits in most cases in with your current computer system. Contact Business Mechanix for a no obligation assesment to see how we can bring Live@edu to your school.

• A computer with a good internet connection is required
• All hosted on Microsoft®'s servers so you don't need any