UW Informatics major Liz Moffat is featured in a new video from Microsoft. The video features scenes from the UW campus as Moffat relates how she and her classmates are conquering group projects with Office Live Workspace. The two-minute video can be found on the Microsoft PressPass site.

In a Feb. 24 press release, Microsoft describes the ways group projects can become the bane of any student’s existence. How will a group of students coordinate schedules to meet and write a paper? Which version is the latest copy of the research results? All the computers in the lab are full — again!

Moffat and her team use the free Office Live Workspace service to store research for her library science project on the use of computers in public libraries across the U.S. The video shows helpful tips for use by college students, campus IT staff and faculty members.

Office Live Workspace lets users share ideas with others any time of day across different locations, and keeps track of everyone’s input and versions of collaborative documents. In the video Moffat discusses how she not only keeps track of the most current document, but shares, stores and edits documents with her library sciences research group using technology that supports many of the elements of group projects.

More information can be found at www.officelive.com.

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