Migration of Glow to Office 365

RM Unify
RM Unify consists of three core components, a Launchpad, the App Library and the Bus.

1. The Launchpad: Access applications and services centrally and launch via a single logon

2. The App Library: Discover what’s out there and bring together the best services and applications to support teaching and learning

3. The Bus: Manage users through simple, seamless and secure provisioning of accounts

Piloting RM Unify
RM Unify piloting started w/c 1st of October. The pilot will be carried out with specific schools from Edinburgh, North Ayrshire, Scottish Borders, East Renfrewshire, West Lothian, North Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire. The pilot will run from 1st of October until 24th of October. Feedback will be encouraged from all and will come in to the national Glow Group – using a survey, forum and paper on the day. We will collate and use this feedback before proceeding to the next stage.

In this pilot we will be piloting RM Unify only, not Office 365.

If you want a guided tour of this new interface then please go the national Glow Group where we have posted some video footage.

Office 365 for Education
RM Unify needs to be in place to pass the single sign-on authentication into the Office 365 for education platform and applications. Once Unify has been piloted and implemented, Office 365 will be connected and further pilots will be organised. Timelines showing the detail of the implementation plan will be communicated as soon as they have been completed and will contain accurate dates and information.

The elements of MS Office 365 that will be available to Glow Users across Scotland are listed below.

• Exchange online with full mobile experience – email, calendar, web-app, 25Gb email storage per user.

• Lync online service – peer to peer video coms, Presence and IM, integration with Exchange and Sharepoint online, usable on mobile devices.

• Sharepoint online – 512Mb personal plus 512Mb pooled data storage.

• Office Web Apps – online browser based versions of the familiar MS Office suite including Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote. This will remove the requirement to have an underlying MS Office installation on a device, however when the apps are on the client, they will work together.

• Blogging and Wiki tools with social networking integration.

• Powerful document collaboration including multi-user editing facilities.

Some of these applications were demonstrated at the recent Scottish Learning Festival.

Progress of this project will be posted in the national Glow Group – Migration of Glow to Office 365