Windows Live Services

• Overview
• Getting Started
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Documentation and Web Links

• Microsoft Support for Windows Live E-mail
• Microsoft Support for All Windows Live Services

my.stlcc.edu Windows Live E-mail

St. Louis Community College's new my.stlcc.edu Windows Live student
e-mail service is available for all current credit students for the Spring 2008 semester. The College has partnered with Microsoft (Microsoft Live@edu program) to offer these customized @my.stlcc.edu student e-mail accounts hosted by Windows Live Hotmail. Answers to frequently asked questions, how to videos, and documentation on this service appears here.

Get started now with the instructions on our Getting Started page or download the 2-page printable Getting Started Guide (882KB PDF).

Send and receive e-mail from virtually any web-connected computer and have one e-mail address for life - as students may keep and use their my.stlcc.edu Windows Live account after graduation or the completion of their educational goals with the College.

The basic features of the Windows Live service include:

E-mail

Hosted the same way as Hotmail, students receive a mailbox using the @my.stlcc.edu e-mail domain. The mailbox is accessible through webmail, on a web-connected mobile phone, and through all of the normal ways that you already access Hotmail today. There's no inbox advertising for current credit students and it is branded and customized specifically for our students. Oh, and it also includes a 5GB mailbox (which is about 100x larger than many university mailboxes today).

Access your e-mail with the web interface, the web-connected mobile phone interface, or by POP3 e-mail (clients like Microsoft Office Outlook, Thunderbird or Apple Mail). Spam checks are bypassed for faculty e-mail deliveries to @my.stlcc.edu accounts to prevent faculty-to-student e-mail from being falsely classified as spam. Users can report spam and phishing e-mails, training Microsoft SmartScreen technology e-mail filters and giving each student one-click control over incoming nuisance spam and scam e-mail. Anti-virus defense and spell checking is standard with the web user interface. And it works for Windows, Mac and Linux computers using Internet Explorer or Firefox.

St. Louis Community College's my.stlcc.edu Windows Live service provides students a professional e-mail address, appropriate to communicate with potential employers and professionals in their field.

The @my.stlcc.edu e-mail account will become the College's official communication channel to students starting with the Fall 2008 semester.

Calendar

Each student has their own individual calendar, to allow them to manage their schedule. Students may share their personal calendar with friends and classmates, or whomever you choose. Simply decide which appointment details you wish to share - location, subject, attendees. Windows Live works with other calendar systems, including Exchange (used by faculty and staff) and iCal.

SkyDrive

Allows students to store and share documents, files, photos and folders and access them from any computer, or share with their friends. It's a password protected 5GB web-based virtual hard drive - say goodbye to carrying that flash drive around.

Office Live Workspace

A document workspace, for sharing any type of Office content - documents, spreadsheets, presentations, meeting invitations and schedules. This gives each student space to store up to 1,000 Microsoft Office documents online. Other students can view and edit those documents, even if they don’t have Microsoft Office installed on their computers - even Mac users!

Users can view documents online, or download for editing and use. One neat thing it does is allow easy creation of lists - which can be exported to Excel. This kind of thing is great for groups of students working on projects and tasks. Students can also annotate documents online - which means one user can create a document, and then share it for peer review, and others can add their comments and notes online, through the workspace.

Spaces

Create a personal Website in minutes and start blogging to share thoughts, music lists, and photo albums with friends. Spaces can also be set up as forums to exchange intellectual observations and commentary on academic subjects with students and faculty; and students can set up their own e-profiles for prospective employers. Current credit students will also be able to turn off advertising on their Windows Live Space site.

Windows Live Writer

Use this free blog publishing tool to create blogs in your Windows Live Space. The "how to" videos show how to add photos and video, preview your layout, and publish your content.

Messenger

Each student automatically gets an additional Messenger account - allowing them to separate their use of IM for their social life and learning. Live Messenger provides instant messaging and file sharing, including multi-way instant messaging features to communicate in real-time and share files with schoolmates and members of your study team.

Still have questions? Check out our answers to frequently asked questions.