Slack For Students

01-05-2021 admin

USC Slack is a collaboration and communication hub for students, faculty and staff that helps teams work together and collaborate with people online as efficiently as they do face-to-face. With Slack, groups can collaborate within channels that are focused on a specific topic which could be a course, a project, a club, a committee or whatever else is needed.

Slack For School

Modification: Students use Slack channels to manage group projects in a single workspace (e.g., sharing files, providing feedback, engaging in live video chats, sending text messages). Redefinition: Students can integrate more than 1,500 apps (e.g., Google Apps) into their Slack channels for improved efficiency in project management. From planning and teaching curriculum to managing student services, there’s a lot to running a physical college or university campus, let alone a digital one. What’s inspiring to us is that over 3,000 higher education institutions, totaling approximately 1.2 million users, are using Slack to keep classes and campus affairs running online. Getting Started (Slack) - Everything you need to know to get started and get to work in Slack; UCLA's Good Slacker Guide (Slack best practices & etiquette) UCLA Slack Use Cases - For students, faculty, and staff; Using Slack at UCLA - Student Quickstart Guide (PDF) Slack 101; Using Slack - From channels to search, learn how Slack works from top.

Features

Enables efficient teamwork

Workspaces bring large groups together to ensure people are connected to the right people at the right time.
Slack channels offer the ability to create organized communication groups from across USC focused on specific topics, so you can ensure that messages go to only the people who want to see them and need to see them. This often reduces the need for meetings and gets topic related messages out of the jumble of your email box and into one consolidated location for your team to share.

Provides rich interactive tools

Slack offers extensive emoji reactions to individual messages, polling, user analytics, detailed control of your notifications and other tools to make sure your interactions are engaging and useful.

Organizes everything you need into one platform

Slack combines all your work into one single platform, so you rarely need to switch platforms while working
Office 365 integrations provide seamless sharing and collaboration capabilities with all Office 365 programs, including OneDrive, and Outlook Calendar
If you ever need to convert a conversation to a call, immediately create a Zoom meeting with the Zoom integration feature
Slack has over 2,000 commonly used apps that can be integrated into your workspace to support how your team works

Getting Started

The following Slack reference and training materials can be found on keepteaching.usc.edu.