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One in ten UM students have switched from GrizMail to UMConnect in the first four weeks of the voluntary email transition period.

If you’re a student, sign up today.

If you have a reliable channel of communication to students, we would appreciate your help in getting the message to them to make the switch early.

Voluntary account sign-up will continue for several more weeks. All students who have not signed up for UMConnect accounts by the end of fall semester will have accounts created for them in early January.

What are the benefits?

UMConnect is powered by Microsoft’s Live@edu, which provides email, file storage and a collection of collaboration and networking tools. The email interface is similar to the Outlook Web Access used by GrizMail. The big difference is that students get 10 gigabytes of email storage instead of the 35 megabytes provided by GrizMail.

Live@edu also provides 25 gigabytes of file storage. Files can be saved for public or private use. Office Live provides additional storage space for Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.

Have questions? Go to our UMConnect FAQ page, or email us at italk@umontana.edu.

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