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Learning Essentials transforms familiar Office applications into customized tools for 21st century learning.
Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office 2.0 provides education-specific tools for students and educators to get the most out of their familiar Microsoft Office applications.

Curriculum-based templates and toolbars for Microsoft Office Word, the Microsoft Office PowerPoint® presentation graphics program and Microsoft Office Excel® spreadsheet software help students and educators get started, stay organized and successfully complete high-quality work.

Learning Essentials 2.0 includes SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) tools for authoring additional content and e-learning resources, a smaller network-based installation and centralized server administration.

Learning Essentials is available only to Microsoft Academic Volume Licensing customers. Academic customers with volume licenses for Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2003 or Microsoft Office XP, Professional or Standard editions, are licensed to use Learning Essentials at no additional licensing cost.

How to Acquire
Schools can:
  • Download Now from the Microsoft download center
  • Download from Microsoft Volume Licensing Service
  • Install from Office with Learning Essentials CD media included in their Licensing kit or orderable from their Authorized Education Reseller


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    Top Features
  • Educator and Student Centers
    Centers enable educators and students to start common assignments and tasks quickly through a customizable interface.
  • Templates
    for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint help educators and students get beyond the blank page and produce high-quality work.
  • Toolbars
    that appear automatically with specific templates bring together Office resources and commands for writing, presentations, math and science, and foreign languages.
  • Side-by-side Project Assistance gives "just in time" guidance and coaching from leading education publishers and expert Microsoft Office users. Handy Checklists help track progress within an assignment.
  • Tutorials
    Provide academic guidance for students and best practices for educators while they complete their work.
  • SCORM Tools seamlessly convert Microsoft Office documents into standards-based objects that can be managed and reused by any SCORM-conformant learning management system. (Available for English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian and Spanish language versions only.)
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