Educational Software and Tools

With Microsoft Encarta Standard 2007 students can explore a world of knowledge that's accurate, engaging and up to date. With over 36,000 articles, tens of thousands of pictures and sound clips, videos, animations, games, maps and more, Encarta gives you carefully reviewed, age-appropriate content that comes from sources you can trust. Engage learners as young as seven with pictures, games and multimedia information in a colourful, easy-to-navigate environment designed just for them. And keep content up to date with automatic downloads that add new information directly into articles.

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MapPoint 2006 helps learners visualise data that relates to a geographic area by combining maps and your own data and information. Microsoft MapPoint 2006 with European Maps contains detailed geographic and demographic coverage for eight European countries: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. Coverage outside of those regions is limited to political boundaries and populated places. MapPoint 2006 European edition is coming soon.

Microsoft Project 2003 helps you manage tasks and resources to collaborate on projects and analyse project information. Intuitive features enable both new and existing users to quickly increase their productivity. Project data is made more accessible, helping to improve collaboration and information sharing among students and teachers.

Microsoft Visio 2003 lets you create business and technical diagrams that help you visualise complex systems, sharpen communication and transform your business processes. With Visio 2003, you'll spend less time designing, documenting and maintaining processes and systems – and more time planning for the future. Visio 2003 helps you visualise and communicate ideas and information. Students can document and share ideas visually and assemble diagrams by simply dragging task-specific shapes onto pages. It’s also easy to manage people, processes and projects.

Give your students the power to master digital photography with Digital Image Suite 2006’s tools and features. New, easy-to-use features help them organise, creatively enhance and share their pictures with the world. As their passion for great photography grows, Microsoft Digital Image Suite gives them exactly what they need to bring their creative vision to life.

With FrontPage 2003, students can create and build dynamic and sophisticated websites using familiar Office tools. New layout and graphics tools make it easier to design exactly the site they want, from societies and club sites to creating web projects as part of IT lectures.