Microsoft Office 365 for education will deliver the power of cloud productivity to educational institutions, helping to save time and money while increasing student and faculty productivity. 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.
Learning from virtually anywhere
Office 365 provides users with the ability to work online or offline via Office desktop applications on PCs and Macs. When you’re not on campus, you can access your inbox with Outlook Web App, view and edit assignments with Office Web Apps (available with some plans), or join an online classroom with the Lync Web App. And you’re never out of touch with other students or educators as you can access resources from many devices.
Minimal learning curve
Educators and students can be productive right away as they work with the familiar Office tools they already count on. The features of Office that integrate with Office 365 "just work" without complicated setup or configuration.
Financially-backed 99.9% uptime guarantee
Your email, documents and services are available when you need them. Office 365 services are delivered from globally-redundant data centers protected by multiple layers of security and a strict privacy policy. Further protections such as high availability are ensured through redundancy and replication.
Keeps IT in control
Reduce the time and effort you spend managing email and collaboration servers through the Office 365 admin UI. Role-based access controls allow IT to delegate authority for specific administrative tasks to others. The Office 365 service health portal and RSS feeds provide up-to-date service availability information.
24/7 support
Microsoft is proud to provide 24/7 global support for some Office 365 plans. Service administrators can create support requests anytime or call any one of the support centers around the globe. Local phone numbers are provided in many countries and phone support is offered in many languages.
