Softline Helps Moscow Finance and Law University Reinvent Its Educational Workflows Based on the Microsoft Teams Online Platform

London, United Kingdom, September 02, 2021 –(PR.com)– In the spring of 2020, Moscow Finance and Law University (MFUA), like most Russian instructional establishments, was compelled to modify to the e-learning mannequin. In simply 3 weeks, Softline and Microsoft helped MFUA configure Microsoft 365 cloud options for a sure pool of customers in accordance with the college construction and wants. The platform was built-in with electronic mail servers, and the Microsoft Teams calendar was configured to assist scheduling lessons. For greater than a 12 months now, 10,000 college students have been utilizing the platform every day, becoming a member of about 30,000 on-line conferences every month.

Moscow University of Finance and Law is the oldest Russian non-state greater schooling establishment, which has been topping the ranking of Russian universities for a number of years in a row. There are greater than 50 college students at MFUA. Since 2007, MFUA has been topping the rating of Russian non-state accredited universities.

Due to the pandemic, MFUA needed to reorganize its whole instructional course of as quickly as potential and transfer it on-line. The college determined to make use of Microsoft Teams as an academic platform. Teams options many instruments for productive and straightforward interplay – chat, video conferencing, notes, and collaboration on paperwork. It was vital for academics and college students to make use of a service optimized for cell gadgets and enabling swift data change to enhance studying effectivity.

“Together with the Softline’s staff, the college specialists enabled distance studying at MFUA utilizing cutting-edge collaboration options powered by Microsoft 365. Now, that the providers have been configured, we cannot solely maintain lectures but in addition talk with college students and efficiently handle studying in the new surroundings. As a end result, we created a type of a ‘digital’ copy of our college, which operated high quality even when the individuals of the instructional course of had been simply starting to study new methods of interacting,” stated Georgy Gorshkov, vice-rector of MFUA.

To speed up the migration to the cloud whereas retaining the high quality of instructional providers, the college turned to Softline. The specialists of the international supplier wanted to implement the newest model of the electronic mail server and consolidate the Microsoft 365 cloud and the college’s present IT infrastructure in a hybrid surroundings. Then the MFUA specialists scaled the answer to all college students and lecturers. As a end result, the instructional course of has gone on-line and the native infrastructure was retained.

With Teams, academics can create duties for sensible and laboratory works, attaching the needed methodological content material for his or her completion and forming detailed and clear analysis standards. When a scholar completes the work, the teacher receives a notification. They can consider the task on-line, and the feedback can be forwarded to the scholar.

In addition, the platform was utilized by the college throughout state exams. Students uploaded their works to their private accounts and then submitted them for assessment by the state committee, which joined a devoted staff in Teams. The state examination totally imitated the on-site format. Two rooms had been created: one for the college students to speak to one another whereas ready, and one other for the committee, the place college students had been invited in flip to take the examination and defend their thesis. All information from the examination had been saved to OneDrive routinely.

“Today, guaranteeing the instructional course of continuity is a precedence for each of us. That is why Microsoft actively helps varied modes of establishment operation and, particularly, of their studying processes. We provide options for conventional full-time, distance, or hybrid codecs. We hope that new instruments will permit MFUA to develop the number of its approaches to instructional actions and unlock new alternatives,” stated Elena Slivko-Kolchik, Head of Science and Education Relations Division at Microsoft Russia.

“The supplier’s staff managed to unravel the buyer’s issues as rapidly as potential. They efficiently built-in the Microsoft Teams cloud platform with native electronic mail servers. To do that, the staff analyzed, upgraded, and linked the native electronic mail system to the cloud. As a end result, they created an answer that allowed us to combine the calendar with Teams via a hybrid configuration of native electronic mail servers. Thus they achieved the objective set by the college – organizing and managing the on-line schooling course of in a single data surroundings,” says Lyudmila Prudchenko, Softline Key Account Manager for Academic Institutions.