Communications


Call Boxes and House Phones

A number of well-marked exterior call boxes are located throughout the Lincoln Park campus. These emergency call boxes can be used to report a crime, a fire, or any type of emergency. These phones are managed by DePaul Public Safety.


Phone Service at DePaul

DePaul faculty and staff are provided with telephones, voicemail, and technical assistance. Departments are no longer responsible for paying usage charges but budget managers are responsible for procuring new phones through Information Services via budget chargeback.


Add/Move/Change a Line

Phone moves, adds, and changes include moving an existing line to a new location, creating a new line, deleting a line that is no longer needed, or assigning an existing line to a different employee. Phone moves and changes are performed at no cost, however, departments will be charged for any new equipment that is needed.


Pricing and Information

View the models and prices of the phones that Information Services currently supports for departmental use.


Office Phone Features

View the quick reference guides for the Information Services supported phones for departmental use:


General Information

Unified Messaging integrates your voicemail messages with your Outlook Inbox. Using this system, you can review, respond to, or forward your voicemail messages using either your phone or directly within your email on a computer or mobile device.


General Information

The term "mobile device" includes cellular phones, smart phones and tablets (including devices such as the iPad, Kindle, etc.) as well as the associated software applications ("apps") that can be purchased for these devices (e.g. from the Android Market, Apple App Store, etc.).


iDePaul App

Get connected with the iDePaul app. The university-wide smartphone application centralizes information important to students, faculty and staff.


BlueKey Multi-factor Authentication

The best way to strengthen a login is to require a second factor after the email/password stage.  Two-factor authentication allows you to verify your identity using a second factor (i.e. phone, token, etc) in addition to providing your email address and password when logging into your account.


Zoom

All DePaul students, faculty and staff have access to the Zoom collaboration tool. Zoom offers


Microsoft Teams

Teams is Microsoft's unified communications platform which combines messaging, meetings, file storage, application integration, and voice and video calling into one collaborative team workspace.


Microsoft Teams

Teams is Microsoft's unified communications platform which combines messaging, meetings, file storage, application integration, and voice and video calling into one collaborative team workspace.


Email with Outlook

DePaul students, faculty and staff can access their DePaul BlueM@il account using Outlook in a browser or get the Outlook app for personal computers or mobile devices.