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Microsoft 365 Education

Transform your students’ learning with Microsoft 365 Education

Microsoft 365 Education offers a suite of student-centered solutions that help create an equitable learning environment for all and help students succeed in the classroom and beyond. Find which plan is right for your institution below.
Student-centered Solutions

Discover solutions tailored to meet students’ needs

  • Help students catch up, keep up, and get ahead with our Learning Accelerators. These tools create more opportunities for students to practice through immediate feedback in core subjects like reading, writing, and math. They also track progress and provide actionable insights for teachers.
  • Get students familiar with Office 365 tools they’ll likely use for years to come, like Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams, while building future-ready skills, like problem solving and collaboration. 
  • Personalize learning experiences and enhance outcomes for students with built-in AI tools. Microsoft Copilot also streamlines teaching and administrative tasks, reducing the workload and creating more time for one-on-one student support. 
  • Manage technology and maximize security from one classroom to an entire district with Microsoft 365 Education. Our cloud-based system makes monitoring threats and pushing updates seamless to maximize learning time for all.
Education plans

Explore our three tiers of Microsoft 365 Education plans

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Microsoft 365 – A1

A simple, one-time-per-device learning solution for modern workloads. Save time by managing all devices in a single dashboard.

Microsoft 365 – A3

The right solution for institutions that need all the A1 features, plus desktop apps, security, and device management.

Microsoft 365 – A5

Our most comprehensive plan features everything A3 offers, plus unified communications, analytics, and advanced security capabilities.
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Copilot

Reduce time-consuming administrative tasks, summarize complicated topics, create content, and analyze data using Copilot, a free AI-powered Microsoft tool.
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Teams

Enhance collaboration and communication through video conferencing, file sharing, notes, and assignments all integrated into Microsoft Teams for Education. 
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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.
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Excel

Analyze, comprehend, and display your data with ease using Excel, included in the Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscriptions.
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PowerPoint

Create powerful and inclusive lessons and presentations with media, charts, and design assistance with Microsoft PowerPoint.

Reflect

Develop your students’ self-expression by encouraging them to name their feelings using illustrated and emoji-like representations of emotion words in Reflect.
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Outlook

Manage your email, calendaring, tasks, contacts, and note-taking with Microsoft Outlook, included in Microsoft Office 365.
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Minecraft Education

Promote problem-solving, creativity, and collaboration in your classroom with Minecraft Education, a game-based learning platform in an interactive digital environment.
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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.

Azure

Build, deploy, and scale applications quickly and efficiently with Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing solution that enhances your schools’ educational offerings and infrastructure.
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Whiteboard

Enhance group participation and collaboration in real -time on a digital whiteboard, included in Microsoft Teams.
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Microsoft Defender

Protect devices, student and school data, and the overall network from cyber-attacks with the Microsoft Defender suite, a comprehensive security solution for education.
Pricing options

Talk with an expert for plan pricing

From a single classroom to an entire school district, Microsoft 365 Education has the tools students, educators, and
IT professionals need to succeed. Contact a sales partner to personalize your plan and receive pricing for your school.
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School stories

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“Microsoft 365 for Education was a way for us to ensure parity and equity for all learners; to ensure they all have access to the same tools, the same software, and the same opportunities.”
– Peter Kennedy, Head of Science Technology Engineering and Maths curriculum for the Welsh Government
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"Switching to Microsoft 365 was one of the best decisions we made. The minute students arrive at Ursuline or log onto any device, they can get to work using Teams and OneNote."
– Anne Robertson, Director of Technology, Ursuline Academy
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“The decision becomes immediately obvious when you ask which cloud environment has the richness suited to our educational context. The depth and breadth of Microsoft 365 is a game-changer.”
– Jonathan Bishop, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Headteacher, Cornerstone Academy
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Training and Resources

Find Microsoft 365 Education resources

Discover resources for Microsoft 365 Education such as support, documentation, and training.
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For educators

Explore Microsoft 365 help and learning

Find resources and answers to your questions for Microsoft 365 Education products.
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For IT leaders

Microsoft 365 Education documentation

Get information for IT admins, developers, and partners.
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For educators

Microsoft Learn Educator Center

Start exploring our learning paths and modules today.
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Frequently asked questions

  • Microsoft 365 Education is a productivity cloud suite that helps create equitable learning environments. We achieve this through solutions that help accelerate learning, prepare students from classroom to career, are inclusively designed, and support instructional and IT leaders with trusted and secure solutions.
  • Microsoft 365 builds on top of Office 365 apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook and provides enhanced management, security, and compliance tools.
    • Education Insights: Education Insights is a free, out-of-the-box analytics solution for schools using Teams for Education. It automatically connects key apps within Teams and the Microsoft 365 Graph and makes student data easy to access for teachers and education leaders.
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    • Reflect: Help students recognize and navigate their emotions by providing regular opportunities to share and be heard. Reflect can help broaden learners' emotional vocabulary and deepen empathy for their peers while also providing valuable feedback to educators for a healthy classroom community.
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    • School Data Sync (SDS): A Microsoft 365 application for EDU tenants that connects with external third-party systems (typically student information systems), to ingest and store data for the purposes of dynamic Microsoft 365 provisioning and enriched Microsoft 365 insights and analytics.
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    • Azure Data Export: Ability to export data from SDS and Education Insights (including Reflect, Assignments, and Progress/Coach data) into an Azure or third-party data repository. This functionality currently requires Education Insights Premium.
    • Open Education Analytics (OEA): An open-source effort led by Microsoft Education to empower education systems around the world to use data, analytics, and AI more effectively and ethically to improve learning outcomes. Institutions can access models from GitHub and learn best practices from other institutions to perform advanced and predictive analytics.
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  • There are three tiers of Microsoft 365 Education available, each with an array of helpful and inclusively designed features. Connect with one of our education experts to learn more about pricing and see how you can build an individualized plan that works best for your institution.
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  • There are three versions of Microsoft 365 Education for your institution you can choose from:
    • A1: A simple, one-time-per-device learning solution for all your modern workloads. Support every learner with desktop apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams, Minecraft: Education Edition, and more. This license also provides cloud management through Microsoft Intune for Education to save time by managing your devices in a single dashboard.
    • A3: Enhance learning with desktop Office apps and increased security and management tools. Includes everything in the Microsoft 365 A1 license, plus additional features like Bookings and Live Events. The A3 plan also provides advanced security, management, and analytics.
    • A5: Streamline licensing and potentially reduce costs with our most comprehensive suite of learning, compliance, security, and management tools. Includes all the teaching and learning features of Microsoft 365 A3.
    • Available in over 50 languages to support ELL, non-native speakers, deaf learners, and those with auditory processing disorders or cognitive differences
    • Real-time translation in over 100 languages with PowerPoint Live translation
    • Reading Progress and Reading Coach is supported in over 100 languages
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  • Microsoft is committed to supporting equitable learning environments in all school systems. This means using safe and trusted first-party solutions that foster inclusivity, enable real-time insights, leverage available cloud services, and best prepare students for the future.
    • Microsoft provides students with equitable education solutions that are inclusively designed to help all learners achieve more.
    • Microsoft delivers solutions for educators that help them accelerate learning, support social and emotional well-being, and prepare all students for tomorrow’s workplace. 
    • Microsoft Education solutions support instructional and IT leaders with trusted, secure, and future-proof hardware and software options that are affordable, simple, scalable, and sustainable to meet the critical needs of education today and in the future.
    • Our teams have partnered with experts in each field to develop our Learning Accelerators tools. For example, we partnered with reading fluency experts such as Dr. Tim Rasinski, Pam Allyn, Dr. Mark Seidenberg, and Dr. Timothy Shanahan to develop Reading Progress and Reading Coach. 
    • Reading Progress has been awarded a research-based design certification for Digital Promise.
  • Many of our built-in tools are seamlessly integrated with Education Insights. Insights integrates student engagement with Teams for Education with Assignments, our emotional well-being survey tool Reflect, and Learning Accelerators to give educators and leaders a more holistic view of their students in an out-of-the-box solution.
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