Category: Collaboration

Unblocking Teamwork: four tools and strategies to improve collaboration

Collaboration is becoming increasingly important in workplace culture, but COVID-19 is isolating employees and collaboration could be more of a challenge. Microsoft Teams can help. This Microsoft eBook shares tips and tricks on how you can use Teams to overcome blockers to collaboration—like too many apps and tools or inefficient virtual meetings. Discover how you can drive collaboration with this tool.

Microsoft 365 Powered Device Pilot Datasheet

Whether you're looking to bring more security to your organization or enhance productivity, a modern desktop can help. With the constantly changing requirements coming down from regulatory bodies across the world, it's important to have a safe and secure operating environment that enables employees and staff the ability to communicate effectively and increase productivity. Take care of your employees and customers with a modern set of tools. At Global Solutions IT, Inc, we know how to help you bring the latest and greatest into your organization. Contact us to find out how we can help.

Remote staff meeting with Teams

The need for remote learning continues to surge globally due to COVID-19. Microsoft alongside many of our partners offer free tools such as Office 365 and Teams to schools. Administrators and teachers find Teams useful not only for the classroom, but also for organizing Professional Learning Communities and Staff teams. Attending remote meetings is easy with all the built-in features provided. We understand you may have questions on how your school can leverage remote learning and we encourage you to view upcoming and on-demand Teams webinars - sign up here: https://microsoftteams.eventbuilder.com/TeamsEducation.

Personalized Learning, Teachers Unleashed, and a Learning Analytics Partnership: The Story of Fresno Unified

When the first 400 teachers applied to participate in the Fresno Unified School District Personalized Learning Initiative (PLI) back in 2016, they did so to improve learning for their students. Along the way, they discovered improvements to support their teaching practices. One key success of PLI is the professional education and digital collaboration opportunities it provides to teachers. Fellow PLI teachers were able to communicate on Microsoft Teams, the same program they would bring into their classrooms. This support meant more successful implementation in those classrooms. Check out this article to discover more insights from Fresno's PLI.

Enabling Analytics for Improvement ‒ Lessons from Year 2 of Fresno’s Personalized Learning Initiative

How to do you keep the momentum rolling for initiatives? First, you need to understand your current success: what's working and where can we improve? Second, you need to communicate that success to parents, teachers, principals, and anyone one else with a stake in student progress. Fresno Unified's Personalized Learning Initiative, in partnership with #Microsoft, Digital Promise, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, integrated learning analytics to do just that. In this year 2 report, the results speak for themselves: The initiative is accomplishing its goals of closing achievement gaps and preparing students for "as yet imagined futures." Let's keep this momentum going to improve the lives of all students!

Customer story: Xiaoyi Technology

When global camera company Xiaoyi Technology set out to modernize its IT infrastructure in the cloud, it chose Microsoft 365. Since adopting Microsoft 365, the company has been able to boost productivity, maximize productivity and enhance customer experience by automating time consuming processes. See the difference, and contact Global Solutions IT, Inc to see how we can help your company modernize IT with Microsoft 365.

Customer Story: BP deploys Microsoft 365 to improve user experience and security

In an ever-changing security landscape, how do you keep users, devices, and data across 80 countries protected? For BP, they use Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection that can compile information and identify possible threats more effectively than ever before. So effective in fact, that they put it on all 30,000 Windows 10 devices they have deployed across the world. And this is just one of the many security tools from Microsoft 365 Enterprise E5 that BP is relying on to remain secure as they continue to transform their company. Learn more about their security journey in this video.

J. Walter Thompson breaks new ground with Microsoft collaboration tools

"Given we're such a distributed business across many different countries, we've really embraced those virtual forms of communication." Even before COVID-19 and social distancing, employees at this global marketing communication company used Microsoft Teams to stay connected around the world. Watch the video to discover the importance of staying connected and collaborating virtually so business can run smoothly.
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