Building a Collaborative Campus with Microsoft Teams

Unified Communications, for schools especially, is helping to facilitate better communication and collaboration - and better support for students and parents as a result.

Wavenet is trusted by some of the top Education facilities in the country as well as industry bodies and technology providers. TeamsLink powered by Wavenet helps modernise communications and reduce costs, replacing the need for a traditional telephone network.

As it’s a fully managed service with no equipment on site we can deploy extremely quickly with minimal disruption. The extensive feature set of Microsoft Teams has many benefits to educational facilities such as screen sharing, whiteboarding and video conferencing.

Benefits

The education sector has embraced digital technologies in recent years. Today, internet-enabled whiteboards make it possible for teachers to enhance their lessons and explore topics in greater detail than ever before. Students and pupils benefit from internet use to support their learning.

In such a digital age, many schools and also recognising the benefit of cloud-based communications like TeamsLink.

Rather than spending money on cumbersome, often outdated telephone systems, schools are instead choosing to invest in a UC solution that makes bring all their communications into one place. Telephone, email, instant messaging, video and more can all be managed on one platform.

How does this help teachers and other education professionals?

By creating a one-platform communications solution, schools make it easier for their teams to collaborate and to find the right point of contact. Whether you’re dealing with a pressing student issue or simply seeking the right person to get you a resource you need, TeamsLink makes finding and talking to that person easier.

Cost Efficiencies

The education sector is accountable for every penny spent in the provision of its services. Avoid wasted spend and make a tangible impact on your costs with TeamsLink

Instead of spending money on lots of different systems, schools can bring all those comms onto one platform - which means one bill, one cost. Because TeamsLink is a cloud-based solution, there’s no hefty equipment or costs associated with installing that equipment. Instead, we’ll get you set up quickly and integrate TeamsLink with your existing tools too - meaning very little downtime and easy take-up among your teams.

Why Wavenet?

Wavenet have over 20 years experience in voice technologies working with businesses across the UK to deliver high-quality, reliable voice and phone systems. With TeamsLink we have partnered with Microsoft to create a platform that provides on-net, high quality traffic through diverse routes to give your business the ultimate unified communications foundation.

We have an internal development team dedicated to advancing our technology and providing our customers with the best solution on the market. As well as our own developers we are partnered with vendors that can provide Microsoft Certified handsets that run Teams directly on-screen, giving you the choice of how you roll out Teams calling to your users.