Communication and collaboration becomes one of the essential components in running the organization. In this digital era, it is served many options that can be chosen in term of approaching by utilizing platforms such as Office 365. This is not limited to certain work area, but it also deals getting access to the communication which is almost needed in all areas, including education. 

The faculty and staff at Universitas Gajah Mada Shows the awareness in implementing Office 365. In one occasion, Microsoft Innovation Yogyakarta in cooperation with DSSDI UGM held a training for lecturers and staff members at UGM in using technology to support the need of communication and collaboration. Office 365 becomes the tool that can be used in the university scope.

This workshop goes with the theme “Research and Administration Productivity with Office 365”, and more than 80 lecturers and staff members attended in this workshop. This workshop was divided into two sessions: on November 26 – 27, 2015. There were some materials that were presented in this workshop which included

1. Utilization of communication features in Office 365 to facilitate consolidation among staff members, lecturers, and students
2. Utilization of storage service to facilitate team work
3. Utilization of digital creative media to create content representative

Each participant tried a wide range features of Office 365 that were demonstrated by using an UGM account owned respectively. UGM is one of the biggest universities in Indonesia in which had implemented Office 365 overall among academic community. By conducting this workshop, it is hoped that it can broaden participants’ insight in order to provide an efficient and effectiveness in daily productive activities.