Learning Essentials for Teachers and Students

For Students: All the Tools and Guidance You Need to Succeed with Learning Essentials

In Your School

Sometimes the hardest part about completing a project is getting started. Learning Essentials provides you with assignment-specific guidance in Microsoft Office applications such as Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

Creative projects, science activities, data collection, essays and reports, research and brainstorming, presentations - the list goes on. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to find a Key Stage 2-4 curriculum area not addressed by Learning Essentials and Microsoft Office.

Learning Essentials adds value right across the curriculum, including key subjects such as English, Maths, Science, Modern Foreign Languages and ICT.

Getting Past the Blank Page

Easy-to-use and intuitive tools, templates and tutorials help you get past formatting questions and to the core learning in your assignments. Developed in cooperation with distinguished academic publishers, Learning Essentials includes tips and tutorials for managing projects and creating high-quality reports, presentations, science projects and other assignments.

Supporting Language Study

Learning Essentials unlocks tools specially designed for modern language study in Microsoft Office. Language templates are automatically set to the specified language, giving you immediate access to diacritical marks, special characters and language-specific spell check and translation tools that help you complete assignments more efficiently.

Putting Together a Polished Package

Learning Essentials helps students create accurate and compelling work – even in challenging subjects like maths and science. Guidelines and templates for PowerPoint make for sharp analytical presentations, and templates for Excel improve critical thinking and data analysis.

"Learning Essentials allowed me to work on my own when I would usually have asked for help."

AL, 17, Sixth Form Student

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For Teachers: Create Instructional Materials and Complete Administrative Tasks with Learning Essentials

Learning Essentials has been designed with teachers for teachers to help make best use of precious planning time, create top-quality learning experiences and speed through everyday administrative tasks. With templates and tutorials developed in collaboration with teachers, Learning Essentials helps you get the most out of your Microsoft Office applications.

Save time on common administrative tasks with templates for classroom handouts and presentations, marking schemes, managing your classroom and more
Stop searching menus to find key Office functions. Use customised toolbars to go straight to bibliography tools, maths symbols and modern language keys

Save Time on Common Tasks

Templates with Project Assistance help you quickly prepare classroom handouts, marking rubrics, assessments, worksheets and more. Project Assistance provides contextual guidance and coaching from leading education publishers. The Create Test Wizard helps you design tests and quizzes without worrying about formatting.

"I created a class test in less than ten minutes - something that would have taken me ages to do on my own."

CF, Secondary School Teacher