ITS provides guidance for which chat and collaboration platforms to use for your University work. If you use these, you may expose the University to risk of legal action.
Many other chat platforms are not compliant. This means that files and chats with other members of the University are GDPR compliant. Your work is stored securely, under the same agreement that covers our other Microsoft products. There are a range of tools to make this easy and to improve collaboration. You can work on Office files together with colleagues, live within Teams. You can add files to a Team that will become available to all members to open, edit and save.
If you’re a member of a Team, you are part of a single chat room with everyone else in that Team. You can request a Team for your department, division or school. This video shows some of the key features of Microsoft Teams: Unlike some other chat platforms, it is also GDPR compliant meaning all your data and messages are stored securely. Microsoft Teams is a virtual workspace where you can chat, meet and collaborate with your colleagues. Microsoft Teams is part of the Microsoft 365 family that offers workspace chat and videoconferencing, file storage, and application integration.
