Overview
Slack is a channel-based messaging and collaboration service that helps faculty and staff organize conversations, share information, and coordinate work within a workspace. Workspaces can support ongoing teams, departments, projects and communities of practice.
Features
- Organize conversations by topic, team, project or function using channels.
- Send direct messages and use threads to keep related discussions together.
- Share files and links with workspace members.
- Search messages and shared content available within the workspace.
- Use audio or video huddles and screen sharing for informal collaboration.
- Connect approved apps and workflows when they are appropriate for university business and workspace governance.
Who Can Get It
Slack workspaces are available to current CU Boulder faculty and staff. Workspace requests should identify a university business purpose and the faculty or staff members who will be responsible for ongoing ownership and administration.
How to Get It
Request a Slack Workspace
Visit the Slack Enterprise Software Catalog page for details about eligibility and pricing, and to request a new workspace.
Access an Existing Workspace
If you have been invited to an existing CU Boulder Slack workspace, follow the sign-in or invitation instructions provided by that workspace. Contact a workspace owner if you need assistance with membership or channel access.
Security & Data Use
CU Boulder Slack is approved for up to and including confidential data. Use Slack only in accordance with university data classification, records retention, acceptable use, and other applicable policies. Workspace owners and members are responsible for managing membership, channel access, file sharing, and connected apps in a way that is appropriate for the information being handled.
ICT Review
- No additional Information and Communication Technology (ICT) review is required to set up a CU Boulder Slack Enterprise Grid workspace.
- New purchases, separate Slack agreements, unapproved integrations, or other technology outside the centrally provided service may still need review under the standard ICT review process.
Workspace Responsibilities
- Maintain at least one active faculty or staff owner and update ownership when roles change.
- Review membership and guest access regularly and remove access when it is no longer needed.
- Use channels and permissions that match the sensitivity and audience of the information.
- Follow university records retention and legal hold requirements for university records.
- Review connected apps before enabling them and avoid sending university data to unapproved third-party services.
- Use descriptive workspace and channel names so members can understand their purpose.
