There are many ways to connect and collaborate remotely at Newcastle University. You can use a technology-enabled venue, participate from your desk, or even connect from the comfort of your own home! Zoom and Microsoft Teams are available to all staff and students at the University to fulfil all your virtual meeting needs.
Tag: digital collaboration
A short course teaching you how to use the various review tools in Microsoft Word. Includes tools such as spellchecker, and also collaborative tools such as comments and track changes.
Hybrid Workplace
Are you splitting your working time between campus, home, and coffee shops? Welcome to the world of hybrid working! This page provides you with some useful information and guidance to help you work effectively wherever you may be. This includes accessing, sharing, and editing files, and setting up and attending virtual meetings.
Hybrid workplace (up to half an hour).
Guidance on how to access and use Microsoft Office 365 applications from anywhere.
Filestore Students
Guidance on digital file storage space available to students, including H:Drive and OneDrive.
Student file storage (under 10 minutes).
Emailing attachments creates copies of documents, and it can be tricky to keep track of which is the definitive version. Sharing and collaborating on the same document tidies all this up, and keeps everyone working on the same version.
Power Automate is a powerful tool for automating processes predominantly between Microsoft products. This guidance is intended to support basic flows for Microsoft Forms.
The File Drop-Off service provides members of the University with the ability to share large data files securely with others where the size of the data file is too large to be practicably sent by other means (such as an email attachment).
File drop-off: send and receive large files (under 10 minutes).
How to schedule and create Teams meeting rooms from within Canvas Courses.
The use of cameras in online sessions: technical and etiquette guidance.
Camera Usage in Online Events from a Staff Perspective (under 10 minutes).