Q. What is office365?
A. It is a cloud based solution which Microsoft offers for its suite of products including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Email and other productivity suites. UG adopted to host its mail locally on our network, but benefits from the Office pro package for its students and staff
Q. What is the Meaning of ɔkasamafo?
A. Ɔkasamafo is the project name for office 365.
Ɔ̀kásámáfó: someone who speaks for another person or persons
The word consists of four meaningful parts (morphemes, as they would be called in Linguistics).
Ɔ-kasa-ma-fo
ɔ — this part identifies the whole word as a noun; it also indicates agentivity.
kasa — this is a verb meaning ‘to speak’
ma — a verb meaning ‘to give/do something for/on behalf of another’
fo — this marks an agent, very similar to the first vowel ‘
Ɔkasamafo was conceptualised from the idea of email for communication being technology working on behalf of humans. So, putting the two together, this name best describes the new email platform.
Q. What are the benefits of ɔkasamafo?
A. UG Staff and Faculty will enjoy the following:
· Office ProPlus *
· Skype for business *
· OneDrive *
· More Email storage space
· More secure email communication
· Unified Communication
Q. How will ɔkasamafo benefit UG Students?
A. Students will have licensed versions of the Ms Office suite to do their work while they are part of the university while maintaining their existing Google emails
