Microsoft Office for education

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Microsoft Office for education is the core set of familiar tools your teachers, staff, and students rely on every day for productivity, communication, and collaboration.

Microsoft Office 2010 is easier to use and even more powerful. Microsoft Office for education extends the suite of applications seamlessly from the desktop to the web and to mobile devices.

See some of the cool things you can do with Office 2010, including editing high quality audio and video right in PowerPoint and broadcasting them to virtually anyone online.
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Use virtually anywhere, on more devices

With Office Web Apps 2010—online companions to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote—you can review and edit documents from a supported web browser. Office Mobile 2010 makes Office applications easier to use on any supported smart phones. Learn more about using Office Web Apps in the classroom.

Bring ideas to life

Refined picture-editing tools in Word 2010 and PowerPoint 2010 help you add dramatic graphic effects, and the customizable templates of Publisher 2010 make it easy to create publications for print, email, and the web that will be noticed and remembered.

Get control of email and calendars

Outlook 2010 helps people regain control of their Inbox by combining message threads. Voice messages are transcribed, and voice-to-text previews are sent directly to the Inbox with the voice mail recording. Group Scheduling Tools and Team Calendar help you visualize an entire group's schedule.

Use tools designed for the classroom

Download academic-specific features, and add functions to Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. Download Office add-ins.

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Add academic-specific features and functions to Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote.

Add-in: Interactive Classroom

Works with Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft OneNote 2010, and Microsoft Office OneNote 2007

This add-in connects a teacher’s PowerPoint presentation to students’ OneNote notebooks. During a presentation, teachers can:

Poll students with multiple choice, true/false, or yes/no questions.
Distribute the lesson to students with OneNote.
Include real-time ink and text annotations.

Students can answer and respond through their individual OneNote notebooks, hand-held clickers, or computers, and the results display in the presentation.

Students also get consolidated notes that match those of the instructor so they can keep track of what they need to learn.

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Add-in: Microsoft Mouse Mischief

Works with Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007

This add-in lets you insert interactive questions, polls, and drawing activity slides into your lessons. Students can actively participate in these lessons by using their own mice to click, circle, cross out, or even draw answers on the screen.

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Add-in: Microsoft Mathematics Add-in for Word and OneNote

With this add-in, you insert an advanced math problem (from algebra to calculus, physics, or statistics) and then click to simplify complex expressions or to solve.

Use these advanced math computational and graphing capabilities to:

Plot a function, equation, or inequality in two or three dimensions, and save the results.
Solve an equation or inequality.
Calculate a numerical result.
Compute the inverse of a matrix, matrix operations, list operations, and integrals.

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Add-in: Chemistry Add-in for Word

This add-in offers semantic authoring, including symbols and conventions.

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Add-in: Math worksheet generator

Enter a sample problem, and then let the generator build an entire worksheet.

Download Math worksheet generator