Windows Server 2008 in education

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Windows Server 2008 R2: Control your infrastructure with less time and more security.

Take less time to control your IT infrastructure with Windows Server 2008 R2, designed to provide your academic organization with a highly secure, reliable, and cost-effective platform for powering applications, networks, and web services. From the workgroup to the data center, Windows Server 2008 R2 delivers valuable new and enhanced functionality that can help your people get more done--both in and out of the office.

Virtualization technologies

New virtualization and web technologies, along with the latest security enhancements, help save time, reduce costs, and simplify management.

Improved management

Powerful new tools, such as Internet Information Services version 7.5, Server Manager, and Windows PowerShell, simplify configuration, administration, and management tasks while increasing control of your servers and helping ensure your network is in accordance with established best practices.

Lower cost of ownership

Advanced security and reliability enhancements, including Network Access Protection, DirectAccess, Server Core, and Read-Only Domain Controller, help protect the server environment and can lower the total cost of ownership for remote worker connectivity, helping create a solid and flexible foundation on which to build your agency.

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Tools & Toolkits

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.

Download Chemistry Add-in for Word

Add-in: Math worksheet generator

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

Download Math worksheet generator