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Service Overview

QUT provides an integrated, electronic, scheduling solution (Calendar tool in MS Outlook for PCs; Entourage for Macs; and Evolution for Linux) to all staff members to enable them to manage, view and edit appointment, events and meetings. Calendar enables staff to arrange meetings quickly and efficiently, and track meeting attendees.

Features of the Calendar, include:

• a web interface to allow staff to view their calendars and email within a single web interface from computers anywhere in the world, even if the computer does not have MS Outlook;
• ability to invite people to meetings who are not QUT staff;
• ability to invite an email distribution list to a meetings without the need to create (and maintain) a separate group just for Calendar;
• seamless synchronisation to PDA devices; and
• being a common, widely-used industry standard that is used by other applications for booking purposes e.g. conferences, airlines, travel companies etc.