Affiliates

MIT Google Workspace for Education is a service that allows members of the MIT community to collaborate with each other, separate from their personal Google accounts. It is provided free of charge upon request.

Components include:

• Google Drive cloud storage service
• Calendar
• Docs
• Sheets
• Sites
• Slides

Note: Gmail, YouTube, and Google Groups are not provided as part of the MIT Google Workspace package.

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LastPass is a password management system. Access data and passwords via Windows, Mac OS X, and mobile native clients, as well as any web browser. LastPass also allows for shared password folders with customized permissions and secure notes for digital recordkeeping.

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Accessing

Prezi is a multimedia presentation tool that can be used as an alternative to traditional slide making programs. Instead of slides, Prezi makes use of one large canvas that allows for panning and zooming to various parts of the canvas to emphasize the ideas presented there.

Prezi integrates with several collaboration apps that are currently in use at MIT, including Slack, Webex, and Zoom.

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Licensing

LabArchives is a cloud-based electronic lab notebook (ELN). It allows you to securely store and organize your research data online and to share that information within your laboratory. Multiple redundancy ensures 24/7 data availability.

How to obtain

Licensing

LabArchives is licensed for use by MIT students, faculty, staff, and affiliates. 

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The Tim Tickets mobile application, available for iOS and Android, is a component of MIT’s campus access system for use by individuals who do not have an active MIT Kerberos account – including MIT alumni and visitors – to activate a digital ID enabling access to campus buildings.

MIT staff, faculty, and students use the Tim Tickets feature within the MIT Atlas mobile app to invite visitors and guests to access campus. Invited visitors and guests then use the Tim Tickets mobile app to create their digital ID.