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Give students and staff the creative tools and technologies they need to create, inspire, and learn anywhere and anytime.

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Innovative learning tools
Connected communications
Distance learning

Innovative learning tools

You can help improve student engagement and boost learning outcomes with software and teaching tools that provide your students and educators what they need to create innovative and interactive content.

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Kinect for Xbox 360 can transform ordinary classroom experiences into extraordinary immersive education. From enhancing algebra and basic math skills to elevating student heart rates through simulated sports activities, Kinect provides an innovative alternative to traditional classroom instruction.

Create compelling content

Unleash student creativity with Microsoft Office 2010, Windows 7, and Windows Live Essentials. Students can quickly create engaging multimedia presentations, reports, projects, videos, photo galleries, blogs, podcasts, and more.

Captivating courses

Make it easier for educators to develop captivating presentations and course materials with Windows 7, Office 2010, Office Web Apps, and Windows Live Essentials. Teachers can record their classes, edit them as professional podcasts and videos, and then upload them for online student access. And with free lesson plans, teaching guides, and digital tools, educators can quickly create engaging curricula.

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Connected communications

From classroom portals to distance learning, technology is creating a new world of virtual communication and learning opportunities. Keep students, educators, and staff connected and engaged anywhere, anytime.

Stay connected

Keep students, teachers and faculty connected and deliver robust online learning with voice, video, chat, broadcasting, and sharing in real time or on demand. The Microsoft unified communications platform combines Microsoft Lync 2010, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Office 2010 to provide complete presence, instant messaging, conferencing, and enterprise voice capabilities across PCs, browsers, and mobile devices.

Communicate and collaborate in the cloud

Microsoft Office 365 for education will combine the familiar Office desktop suite with online versions of Microsoft’s next-generation communications and collaboration services. Office 365 for education will be simple to use and easy to administer—all backed by the robust security and guaranteed reliability you expect from a world-class service provider. Office 365 includes Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft Lync Online, Microsoft Office Professional Plus and Microsoft SharePoint Online.

Extend learning beyond the classroom

Students can complete assignments, create presentations, and develop projects anywhere, anytime. With Windows 7, SkyDrive, Office 2010, and Office Web Apps, teachers and students can easily create, access, edit, share, and work together on assignments and projects across PCs, phones and browsers from virtually anywhere with an Internet connection.

Distance learning

Deliver, administer, and track e-learning content and measure performance, activity, and outcomes. You can create a customized, cost-effective learning management system built with Microsoft technologies you may already have.

Offer course portals

Give teachers and students a single place to distribute, complete, and collect course assignments; share and take quizzes or tests; post classroom schedules; register online; access applications; and connect with instant messaging, voice, or video. Microsoft web portals built on Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Office 2010, and Windows Server can provide single sign-on access, personalized dashboards, familiar interfaces, and anytime access.

Manage and track effectiveness

Build a robust data infrastructure for transparency into program and course effectiveness with SharePoint Server. Create e-learning dashboards that aggregate student test results at a glance and automates required reporting. Keep track of assignments, course content, schedules, and other materials in one central, accessible web portal.