Preventing COVID-19 infection in a university using office 365

Abstract

Preventing COVID-19 infection in a university using a cloud computing service, Microsoft Office 365, is discussed. In order to start in-person classes safely, our university decided to survey health status of every student and staff member, every day. The student or the staff member is asked to not to come to campus if there is a symptom of COVID-19 infection or if they did not fill out the survey sheet daily for two weeks. If there are no symptom of COVID-19 for two weeks, there is almost no possibility of infection of COVID-19 or the person had recovered from the infection. The survey data is collected and analyzed with Office 365 to minimize time and effort. In addition to the survey, we made the class seat assignment sheets using our academic affair system and Excel. The assigned seats were used in order to coduct contuct tracing if a student tested positive with COVID-19.