Messaging & Collaboration

Microsoft 365 is a cloud-based suite of solutions that includes Outlook as the email and calendaring environment, as well as collaborative office applications such as Office Web Apps, Power BI, SharePoint, Teams and Stream.

Google Workspace apps including Groups, Chat, Drive and Sites makes online collaboration more effective. Plus, everyone on our campus has a Google account tied to their IdentiKey account; no more guessing if the person on the other end has compatible programs to view, comment and edit documents.

CU Boulder graduates get to keep access to their colorado.edu email address. OIT provides this service in partnership with the CU Alumni Association.

The information on this page was last updated Jan. 22, 2025.

The campus portal offers a Faculty Course Toolkit to faculty members based upon the courses they are teaching.  For each course, a course roster is available and for each roster, faculty members can send bulk email to all of the students enrolled in the class by clicking on the "Class Email" icon in the toolkit.  Clicking on the icon brings up an email message with the To: address field automatically populated with the class email address.

CU Boulder offers a variety of mechanisms for sending university-related email messages in bulk to groups of faculty, staff or students. Carefully evaluate the available bulk email mechanisms to ensure you have selected the tool appropriate to the task at hand.

Overview

An IdentiKey and email are essential components for getting the most out of the CU Boulder computing environment. OIT automatically creates these for incoming students, faculty and staff, but it is up to you to activate your IdentiKey and to manage your online identity and email account.

CU Boulder Email

Collaboration Applications and Tools