Communication and Collaboration

Services that facilitate institutional communication and collaboration needs including; E-mail, conferencing, telephony, mass communications, collaborative platforms, mobile apps, web applications such as intranets and portals.

Services (9)

E-mail and Collaboration Services

This service provides administrative, management, and technical support for the University’s E-mail and collaboration service. This includes E-mail and calendaring (Outlook), file sharing (OneDrive), productivity (Office), and integrated collaboration suites (Teams and SharePoint) used to facilitate interactions between individuals and work groups as they create, share, and exchange information.

Emergency Notification System

This service provides administrative, management, and technical support for the University’s one-way communications for emergency notifications (FSU Alert) to the entire campus or other defined groups. Includes campus alert systems, broadcast E-mail and text messaging.

Mass E-Mail Communication

This service provides the administrative and technical support for official University communications that are sent via E-mail to all Students, Faculty, and/or Staff - including smaller subsets of cohort members - using a single address to reach all of them as a group rather than sending messages to multiple individual addresses.

Private Websites and Document Management

This service provides administrative, management, and technical support for the University’s enterprise-wide intranet platform (a.k.a. Microsoft SharePoint) which enables academic departments, colleges, administrative offices, and divisions to create and maintain private websites that only allow Framingham State students, faculty, and staff access to documents, forms, and other information resources through a secure login.

Telephony and Voice Mail

This service provides administration and support for the University’s voice and communications systems used for telephony (VoIP, SIP and analog), voicemail, conference calling, virtual “soft phones”, call queues, ring groups and digital receptionists (formerly “phone trees” or auto-attendants).

Two-Way Text Messaging

This service provides technical support for the University’s official two-way conversational text messaging communications platform (a.k.a. “Signal Vine”). This product is used to engage individual students, select groups of students or the entire student body, dependent upon the required circumstances. Approved individuals, departments or groups are granted the ability to send text messages to student(s) and students have the ability to respond to these text messages directly from their cellphone. All of the associated communications are captured and centrally managed within the text messaging application.

Video Conferencing

This service provides technical and administrative support for video conferencing software, which enables people to participate in meetings and class sessions that are either purely online or some blend of online and in-person. Zoom and Microsoft Teams are the two video conferencing software platforms that are supported by Framingham State University’s Information Technology Services organization.

Virtual Events

This service provides a blend of technical and administrative support for webinars, sometimes also referred to as virtual events, which are purely online gatherings that consist of some sort of informative or instructional presentation with one or more people speaking to a relatively larger audience than what’s typical for a class session or meeting. Zoom Webinar is the virtual event software platform that is supported by Framingham State University’s Information Technology Services organization.

Web Portal and Mobile Applications

This service provides administrative, management, and technical support for the University’s portal (myFramingham) which provides the ability to complete secure online transactions and Framingham State’s Mobile App (FSUgo) which provides a mobile experience for students, faculty, staff, and visitors.