Bing Chat Enterprise

For Use By: Faculty, Postdocs, Researchers, Staff

Broadcast Email Messaging

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) is responsible for distributing broadcast email messages. Requests must be pre-approved by a relevant Vice President, Department Head, or the CIO.

For Use By: Faculty, Researchers, Staff

Campus Announcements

Each Monday morning Campus Announcements is sent by electronic mail to all active New York State and Research Foundation employees, and any alums, retirees, students, FSA employees, affiliates, or community members that have subscribed to receive the mailing.

For Use By: Faculty, Guests, Staff, Students, Teaching Assistants

Department Shared Folders

Department shared folders are a secure and convenient way for staff members within a department to share and collaborate on documents and other files.  You can map department shared folders and control who can access them from the Active Directory.

For Use By: Faculty, Staff

eFax

DoIT offers an eFax service that allows users to receive faxes (via e-mail) using any personal computer, laptop, or wireless device connected to the Internet.

For Use By: Faculty, Researchers, Staff

Electronic Post Office (EPO)

Stony Brook University maintains an electronic post office (EPO) for all students, faculty and staff. The EPO is essentially a mail forwarding device that allows everyone at the University to have the same generic email address (@stonybrook.edu) so that no matter what email system Stony Brook may adopt or what domain names change, people will still receive their email.

For Use By: Faculty, Staff, Students

Google Apps

Google Apps for Education is the primary email system for everyone at Stony Brook University except Hospital employees and members of the School of Medicine and School of Dental Medicine. Stony Brook's Google Apps suite of products includes Mail, Calendar, Drive, Contacts, Sites, Groups, Hangouts and a host of other applications to enhance communication and real-time collaboration across campus.

For Use By: Clubs, Faculty, Researchers, Staff, Students, Teaching Assistants

Google Chat

Google Chat is a collaborative messaging tool. It allows you to chat, share content, schedule meetings, and more in a shared space with your team or 1-to-1. And all of your teams can have their own chat Spaces, for collaborating on documents and assigning team tasks. You can even create external Rooms to collaborate with people outside Stony Brook.

For Use By: Faculty, Staff, Students

LISTSERV (Electronic Mailing Lists)

DoIT is no longer creating new Listserves.   This service is now only available for existing listserves.  If you are looking for a way to communicate with groups of people, we recommend Google Groups

For Use By: Faculty, Staff, Students

Microsoft Office 365

Office 365 is a collaborative, cloud-based storage, communication and applications solution provided by Microsoft. Office 365 is HIPAA and Export Control compliant.  

For Use By: Faculty, Researchers, Staff, Students, Teaching Assistants

OneDrive

50 GB file storage accessible in the cloud that you can access and share from any phone, tablet or computer.  OneDrive provides the ability to create, edit and share files without software, just Internet access.   And you can work with other people in realtime on Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote files.  

For Use By: Clubs, Faculty, Researchers, Staff, Students, Teaching Assistants

OneNote

Take richer notes:  OneNote is a flexible application for information gathering and multiple user collaboration for course notes and meeting minutes.  It captures notes that are typed from a keyboard or handwritten from a stylus, screenshots, and audio recordings. You can invite others to view or collaborate on your notes.   

For Use By: Clubs, Faculty, Researchers, Staff, Students, Teaching Assistants

Phone Directory and People Search

DoIT feeds information from PeopleSoft and other systems into the campus phone directory and people search online directory. In compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), student data is not accessible from Stony Brook's People Search tool, only that of faculty, staff, and emeritus.

For Use By: Faculty, Staff, Students

SB Alert

SB Alert is the University's emergency notification system used to alert the campus community of major emergencies, immediate threats or impending situations that could pose harm, disrupt classes, impact facilities, activities, or other operations. When activated, the system can send a voice, alphanumeric page, email and/or text message to all of the devices that you enter into the SB Alert - Contact Information tab in SOLAR.

For Use By: Faculty, Staff

SharePoint

SharePoint Online (or Sites which is part of the University's Office 365 application suite) provides collaborative websites for groups such as research teams, committees, and course-related activities. While DoIT encourages students, faculty, and staff to first investigate Google Drive or Google Sites to handle collaborative projects among teams, SharePoint is certainly a viable alternative.  SharePoint is HIPAA and export compliant.

For Use By: Faculty, Staff, Students

SINC Sites

For Use By: Clubs, Faculty, Guests, Researchers, Staff, Students, Teaching Assistants

VoiceThread

VoiceThread is a web-based application that allows you to place media artifacts such as images, presentations, videos and documents and have an asynchronous discussion around it. 

For Use By: Faculty, Staff, Students, Teaching Assistants

Yammer

Yammer is Stony Brook's internal social network. It is an online environment for discussion and conversation. It can help you get work done and support teamwork and collaboration across the institution.

For Use By: Clubs, Faculty, Researchers, Staff, Students, Teaching Assistants

Zoom

Zoom is a video and audio conferencing tool with easy collaboration, chat, screen sharing and more across mobile devices, desktops, and telephones. Get the Zoom Desktop Client and sign in with SSO (NetID and NetID Password) to ensure you get into every Stony Brook meeting!  

For Use By: Faculty, Staff, Students