YOUR FREE INTEC.ME EMAIL ADDRESS
On this page you will learn more about your free INTEC.me email address. Please activate your address as soon as possible, to ensure that you can receive all official communication from the college.

Frequently asked questions

1. What is Live@edu?

Live@edu is a free email, document management and file storage solution to all INTEC College students. This means that you will get a free intec.me email address when you enroll, plus all the other services linked to Live@edu.

2. What services are linked to my free intec.me email address?

Because your intec.me email address is created via Live@edu, which is a service offered by Windows Live, you have free access to the following services:

Outlook Live: Outlook Live gives you a professional email experience, similar to what you may use in the workplace. It also provides enterprise-class management tools, like archiving and distribution lists, as well as an address book and calendar.

Office Live Workspace: This enables you to create your own site to store, access, and share documents and files. With room for more than 1000 files, Office Live Workspace enhances your ability to keep your work on track and collaborate with others on projects.

Windows Live SkyDrive: You can use Windows Live SkyDrive – a password-protected 25GB free online storage space – to share documents among devices and with friends. You can set up personal and shared folders within your SkyDrive, and turn shared access on or off. Because SkyDrive is accessible from anywhere online, the days of transferring files on flash drives may be at an end.

Windows Live Messenger: You can enjoy real-time chat, full-screen video calling, and computer-to-computer calls with friends and family using Windows Live Messenger. 

Windows Live Spaces: This enables you to create personal websites in minutes, including blogs, forums, music lists, and photo albums to share with friends. You can also display SkyDrive content to easily share files. When it’s time to put your education to work, you can set up e-profiles for prospective employers.

Windows Live for Mobile Devices: Even when you can’t get to a computer, you can access your email account or Windows Live Messenger from web-enabled mobile devices. 

3. How do you want me to use my intec.me email address? 

If you have enrolled during 2010 (from 1 January 2010), INTEC will send all official communication (such as exam info, assignments, and tutorial answers) to your intec.me email address. And we require that you use your intec.me email address for all correspondence with us. What does this mean for you? It means that you have to visit your intec.me email address regularly to ensure that you don’t miss any correspondence from us. 

You will then have a single place where you have a record of all official correspondence you’ve received from us, and those that you sent to us. It will make it easier to manage your archiving and filing of your correspondence with the college.

If you have enrolled before 1 January 2010, it is not compulsory to use your intec.me address for correspondence with the college. However, we urge you to also activate and use your free intec.me email address.

4. Do I have to give back my intec.me email address when I complete my course?

No. You will have your intec.me email address for life. 

5. Do I need a regular Microsoft Office license to use Office Live Workspace?

No, you do not need an Office license to use Office Live Workspace. You can create and save Office documents and share or edit them without having Office installed. You can also create and store other types of documents – besides Office documents – and can also create web-based documents, called “notes,” without having Office installed.

6. Why is Live@edu important for INTEC College?

The workplace is changing, and the desktop applications that employers use today will evolve to desktop applications combined with web services tomorrow. Educators preparing tomorrow’s workforce want to partner with companies that can give them affordable access to those tools today.

In addition, we find that our highly mobile students may change their address, telephone, cell number or their email address while they are studying with us. We have to ensure that we are able to service all our students and therefore a dedicated intec.me email address ensures that we can meet our service commitments to you. 

7. Why is Live@edu important for you?

Because you expect your learning environment to have rich, high-quality communications capabilities like those available to you in non-academic settings. Live@edu gives you a free, yet familiar, email and document management and sharing service at your fingertips, allowing you to communicate easily with us, and seamlessly incorporate your digital lifestyle with their academic work style. And it also shows off your link to INTEC. 

8. How do I know that my information is safe?

Live@edu provides excellent spam-fighting, safety bar, and personal “safelist” and “blocklist” capabilities.

You can also have password-protected spaces where you can collaborate with others. Live@edu also does third-party penetration testing to help ensure there are no holes for hackers to exploit, and only authorized personnel are allowed access to the servers. Additionally, Live@edu have industry best practices in their data centers to improve security of the servers and prevent unauthorized network access. 

9. What will my intec.me email address look like? 

We will use your student number as the prefix to your email address. In other words, if your student number is 1000198768, then your email address will be 1000198768@intec.me.

10. How do I set up my intec.me email address? 

If you enrolled with INTEC in 2010, you would have received full instructions on what to do. However, we also give you all the instructions
here (in PDF format).