Office 365 Education
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Office 365 delivers familiar productivity apps powered by the cloud, enabling people to work, collaborate, and communicate from anywhere.
BENEFITS
Powerful tools for the classroom
- Organize class materials and easily collaborate with students and colleagues using OneNote, the ultimate digital notebook.
- Bring conversations, content, and apps together all from a single Office 365 Education experience. Collaborate in real time without boundaries, and without worrying about lost formatting.
- Create collaborative modern classrooms with the power of Office 365. Set up classes and groups for Teams, Microsoft Intune for Education, and OneNote class notebooks with School Data Sync.
- Get students career-ready with Office 365 Education in the classroom. Whether it’s Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Access, or OneNote, developing proficiency with productivity apps helps students build a foundation for success now and into the future.
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Accelerate learning with Microsoft solutions and AI technology.
Microsoft 365 Copilot
AI built directly into the Microsoft 365 Education apps to support teaching, learning, and operations. Discover how educational institutions are advancing securely, safely, and responsibly with Copilot grounded in their organization’s data.
Word
Streamline your document creation and editing with smart writing assistance, spelling and grammar checking, and visual tool creation such as charts with Microsoft Word, included in Office 365.
Excel
Analyze, comprehend, and display your data with ease using Excel, included in Office 365 and Microsoft 365 Education subscriptions.
PowerPoint
Create powerful and inclusive lessons and presentations with media, charts, and design assistance with Microsoft PowerPoint.
OneNote
Create and organize notebooks, sections, and pages as well as capturing and embedding web content, audio, and video in the OneNote note-taking app.
Teams for Education
Enhance collaboration and communication through video conferencing, file sharing, notes, and assignments all integrated into Microsoft Teams for Education.
PRICING
Get Office 365 for your entire institution
Pick the best pricing option for your budget and needs with donated and discounted Office 365 plans.
College student offer
Free for students: Our ultimate AI and productivity subscription
For a limited time, use your college email and get 12 months of Microsoft 365 Premium on us.2
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TRAINING AND RESOURCES
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Explore all the online resources you need to familiarize yourself with Office 365 apps, manage your account, and troubleshoot.
Frequently asked questions
- Educators and students with an eligible education email address can get Office 365 A1 for free.
- You can use the Office 365 Education plan as long as you are working at, or enrolled in, a qualified educational organization. Your eligibility may be re-verified at any time. When your Office 365 Education plan expires:
- The Office 365 applications enter a reduced-functionality mode, which means that you can view documents, but you cannot edit or create new documents.
- Online services associated with the institution email address—for example, Office 365 for the web and OneDrive—will no longer work.
- If your plan expires, you can extend your plan by re-verifying your status as an educator or student, or by moving to an Office 365 personal plan.
- Get free access to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint using Microsoft 365 for the web (formerly Office 365). Start today.
- In many cases, the response time is instantaneous through an automated verification process. In other cases where an institution needs to be verified, it may take up to a month to confirm eligibility. If you are nearing the end of your 30-day trial and have not received approval of eligibility, please contact customer support.
- Microsoft 365 builds on top of Office 365 apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook and provides enhanced management, security, and compliance tools. Learn more about Microsoft 365.
Devices
Get affordable student devices starting at $249
Prepare educators and students for a new era of digital learning with powerful, affordable, student-centered devices and tools that have assistive technology, and anti-virus features built in.
- [1]Microsoft donates Office 365 A1 for Education to eligible institutions (for educators and students) at no cost to ensure equitable access for learning and building skills for the future. Get started today.
- [2]Terms apply
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