Office 365 Education
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If you are a student at, or an eligible educational institution, you can sign up for Office 365 Education Plan 1 for free, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and now Microsoft Teams, plus additional classroom tools. You may also be eligible to purchase Office 365 Education Plan 3 and Plan 5 at educational prices..
Office 365 is available in a variety of plans to best meet the needs of your institution. Office 365 combines the familiar Microsoft Office desktop suite with cloud-based versions of Microsoft’s next-generation communications and collaboration services—including Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Office for the web, and Microsoft Skype for Business Online—to help users be productive from virtually anywhere through the internet.
Service availability for each plan
Each Office 365 education plan includes a number of individual services, such as Exchange Online and SharePoint Online. The following table shows the services that are available in each Office 365 plan.
Table contents compare three Office 365 plans for students and for teachers, faculty or staff.
| Office 365 Plan 1 | Office 365 Plan 3 | Office 365 Plan 5 |
|---|---|---|
| Free (no commitment) | $2.50 student/month or $3.25 teacher, faculty or staff /month (annual commitment) | $6.00 user/month or $8.00 teacher, faculty or staff /month (annual commitment) |
| Free Office 365 for the web with popular apps like Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote so teachers and students can work together, communicate seamlessly, and create amazing content. | All the features in A1 plus full access to the Office desktop apps and additional management and security tools. | All the features in A3 plus Microsoft’s best-in-class intelligent security management, advanced compliance, and analytics systems. |
| Office apps | ||
| • Outlook • Word • Excel • PowerPoint • OneNote – – | • Outlook • Word • Excel • PowerPoint • OneNote • Publisher (PC only) • Access (PC only) | • Outlook • Word • Excel • PowerPoint • OneNote • Publisher (PC only) • Access (PC only) |
| Services | ||
| • Exchange • OneDrive • SharePoint • Teams • Sway • Forms • Stream • Power Automate • Power Apps • School Data Sync • Yammer – – | • Exchange • OneDrive • SharePoint • Teams • Sway • Forms • Stream • Power Automate • Power Apps • School Data Sync • Yammer • Bookings – | • Exchange • OneDrive • SharePoint • Teams • Sway • Forms • Stream • Power Automate • Power Apps • School Data Sync • Yammer • Bookings • Power BI |
| Value for students: | ||
| • Work together with real-time coauthoring, autosaving, and easy sharing in your favorite web apps, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Stay on top of your email with Outlook for the web and a 50 GB mailbox.1 • Leverage Microsoft Teams, your digital hub that integrates the conversations, calls, content, and apps your school needs to be more collaborative and engaged. Improve learning outcomes with built-in accessibility features and • Learning Tools that support reading, writing, math, and communication. • Keep organized with OneNote, your digital notebook. • Stay connected with Class Teams and OneNote Notebooks. • Take authentic assessments with Forms. • Enable digital storytelling with Sway. • Never run out of space with unlimited personal cloud storage.2 | All the value for students in A1, plus: • Install the Office desktop apps on up to five PCs or Macs per user.3 • Install Office apps on up to five tablets and five phones per user. | Includes all the value for students included in A3 plus Microsoft’s best-in-class intelligent security management, advanced compliance, and analytics systems. |
| Value for teachers: | ||
| • Work together with real-time coauthoring, autosaving, and easy sharing in your favorite web apps, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. • Stay on top of your email with Outlook for the web and a 50 GB mailbox.1 • Leverage Microsoft Teams, your digital hub that integrates the conversations, calls, content, and apps your school needs to be more collaborative and engaged. • Improve learning outcomes with built in accessibility features and • Learning Tools that support reading, writing, math, and communication. • Keep organized with OneNote, your digital notebook. • Stay connected with your colleagues with Class, Staff, and PLC Teams and OneNote Notebooks. • Conduct and take authentic assessments with Forms. • Enable digital storytelling with Sway. • Never run out of space with unlimited personal cloud storage.2 | All the value for teachers in A1 plus: • Install the Office desktop apps on up to five PCs or Macs per user.3 • Install Office apps on up to five tablets and five phones per user. | Includes all the value for students included in A3 plus Microsoft’s best-in-class intelligent security management, advanced compliance, and analytics systems. |
| Value for faculty and staff: | ||
| • Inform and engage with communication sites and team sites throughout your intranet using SharePoint. • Support compliance with solutions from the unified eDiscovery center. • Stay protected with rights management, data loss prevention, and encryption. • Create, manage, and share videos securely across your school with enterprise video service. • Develop apps without writing code to extend business data quickly with custom web and mobile apps. • Utilize workflow automation across apps and services to automate business processes without writing code. • Communicate easily with HD video conferencing. • Unlimited email storage with in-place archiving. • Get advanced email with archiving and legal hold. • Maximum number of users: unlimited. | All the value for faculty and staff in A1, plus: • Host meetings for up to 10,000 people with Microsoft Teams live events. • Help assess risk and gain insight into potential threats with Office 365 Cloud App Security. • Let parents or guardians and students schedule appointments with faculty online using Microsoft Bookings. • Gain insight into advanced personal analytics with MyAnalytics. | All the value for administrators in A3, plus: • Control how support accesses your mailbox with Customer Lockbox. • Protect against sophisticated threats like phishing and zero-day malware with the ability to investigate and remediate attacks post breach. • See advanced personal and organizational analytics with MyAnalytics and Power BI Pro. • Get enhanced visibility and control of your Office 365 environment. • Create meetings with a dial-in number that attendees can join by telephone with Audio Conferencing. • Make, receive, and transfer calls across a wide range of devices with an option to add Calling Plan. • Install Office apps on up to five PCs or Macs per user.3Install Office apps on up to five tablets and five phones per user.4Plan schedules and daily tasks with Microsoft Teams. • Get email with 100 GB mailbox.1 • Take advantage of unlimited personal cloud storage.2 |
Note
1. For subscriptions that do not include the fully installed Office apps: Users can connect the following versions of Outlook to their business-class email, so they can use the rich client app they already know: the latest version of Outlook, Outlook 2013, and Outlook 2011 for Mac. Previous versions of Outlook, such as Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2007, may work with Office 365 with reduced functionality. This compatibility with Outlook does not include the Exchange Online Kiosk or Office 365 K1 plans.
2. Unlimited personal cloud storage for qualifying plans for subscriptions of five or more users, otherwise 1 TB/user. Microsoft will initially provide 1 TB/user of OneDrive for Business storage which admins can increase to 5 TB/user. Request additional storage by contacting Microsoft support. Storage up to 25 TB/user is provisioned in OneDrive for Business. Beyond 25 TB, storage is provisioned as 25 TB SharePoint team sites to individual users. The OneDrive for Business sync client is available with Office 2016 or with Office 365 subscriptions that include Office 2016 apps. If you don’t have Office 2016, a free download of the OneDrive for Business sync client is also available.
3. Publisher and Access: Windows PC client program and/or features only; cannot be used across devices. Most plans that do not include the desktop version of Office work with the latest version of Office, Office 2013, and Office 2011 for Mac. Previous versions of Office, such as Office 2010 and Office 2007, may work with Office 365 with reduced functionality. This compatibility with Office does not include the Exchange Online Kiosk or Office 365 F3 plans.
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| Category | Details | Microsoft 365 A1* | Microsoft 365 A3 | Microsoft 365 A5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collaboration & Learning | Office Online: web-based document editing | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Office client applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook | Yes | Yes | ||
| Email and calendar, instant messenger (IM), persistent chat, Yammer | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Files and content management: file storage, sharing, information discovery, Groups, Planner | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Minecraft: Education Edition with Code Builder | Yes | Yes | ||
| Classroom Tools | Microsoft Teams with classroom experiences, professional learning communities (PLC), and staff teams | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| OneNote Class Notebook, Sway | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| More inclusive classrooms | Learning Tools, Accessibility Checker, Office Lens | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Voice, video & meetings | Skype for Business | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PSTN (public switched telephone network) Conferencing, Cloud PBX (private branch exchange) | Yes | |||
| Compliance | Legal Hold, eDiscovery search and export | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Advanced eDiscovery, Customer Lockbox, Advanced Data Governance | Yes | |||
| Analytics | Delve | Yes | Yes | |
| Power BI Pro, MyAnalytics | Yes | |||
| Management & Security | Intune for Education | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| School Data Sync, Data Loss Prevention, Office 365 Rights Management | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Office 365 A3: Advanced Security Management, Skype Meeting Broadcast | Yes | Yes | ||
| Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) A3: Intune for Education, Azure Active Directory P1, Azure Information Protection P1, Advanced Threat Analytics | Yes | Yes | ||
| Windows 10 Education A1 | Yes | |||
| Windows 10 Education A3: Windows Defender Antivirus, Device Guard | Yes | Yes | ||
| Advanced Security | Office 365 A5: Advanced Threat Prevention, Threat Intelligence | Yes | ||
| Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) A5: Azure Active Directory P2, Azure Information Protection P2, Cloud App Security | Yes | |||
| Azure Advanced Threat Protection | Yes | |||
| Windows 10 Education A5: Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection | Yes | |||
| Server & CAL Benefits | Productivity Server Licenses and Client Access Licenses (CALs) for Exchange, SharePoint, Skype for Business, etc. | Yes | Yes | |
| Windows Server Client Access Licenses (CALs) | Yes | Yes | ||
| System Center Configuration Manager CML | Yes | Yes | ||
| System Center Endpoint Protection | Yes | Yes |
Please note: *Microsoft 365 A1 is a one-time, per device license.
Student Use Benefits (SUB)
Customers may acquire student use benefits by purchasing the Product via a suite/bundle or as Standalone solution. If customers purchase a suite/bundle containing a Qualifying product, they receive SUB only for the individual product, not for the entire suite/bundle.
- If a Qualifying product is purchased via a suite/bundle the education qualified user : student ratio is 1:40.
- If the Qualifying product is purchased Standalone the education qualified user : student ratio is 1:15
| Acquired Suite/Bundle | Student Use Benefit | Ratio |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft 365 Education A3 | •Office 365 A3 Student Use Benefit •Enterprise Mobility + Security A3 Student Use Benefit •Windows 10 Education A3 Student Use Benefit •Minecraft: Education Edition | 1:40 |
| Microsoft 365 Education A5 | •Office 365 A5 Student Use Benefit •Enterprise Mobility + Security A5 Student Use Benefit •Windows 10 Education A3 Student Use Benefit •Minecraft: Education Edition | 1:40 |
| Enterprise Mobility + Security A3/E3 | •Azure Active Directory Premium Plan 1 •Advanced Threat Analytics •Microsoft Intune for Education | 1:40 |
| Enterprise Mobility + Security A5/E5 | •Enterprise Mobility + Security A3 Student Use Benefit •Azure Advanced Threat Protection •Azure Active Directory Premium Plan 2 •Microsoft Cloud App Security | 1:40 |
| Microsoft 365 A5 Security | •Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection Plan 1 •Azure Active Directory Premium Plan 2 | 1:40 |
| Office 365 A3 | •Office 365 A1 •Office 365 ProPlus, •Office 365 Cloud App Security | 1:40 |
| Office 365 A5 | •Office 365 A3 Student Use Benefit •Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection Plan 2 •Office 365 Advanced Compliance | 1:40 |
| Windows 10 Education A3 (Per User) | Windows 10 Education A3 (Per User) | 1:40 |
| Windows 10 Education A5 (Per User) | Windows 10 Education A3 (Per User) | 1:40 |
| Additional Products | ||
| Advanced Threat Analytics | Advanced Threat Analytics | 1:15 |
| Azure Active Directory Premium Plan 1 | Azure Active Directory Premium Plan 1 | 1:15 |
| Azure Active Directory Premium Plan 2 | Azure Active Directory Premium Plan 2 | 1:15 |
| Microsoft Intune for Education | Microsoft Intune for Education | 1:15 |
| Minecraft: Education Edition | Minecraft: Education Edition | 1:15 |
| Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection Plan 1 | Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection Plan 1 | 1:15 |
| Office 365 ProPlus | Office 365 ProPlus | 1:15 |
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