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Microsoft 365 Education

Empower every learner with Microsoft 365 Education

Microsoft 365 Education is a secure, integrated platform that supports learning today—and equips students with AI-powered tools for what’s next. Choose the plan that fits your institution.
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Power student success through a secure, integrated platform

Microsoft 365 Education delivers a secure, integrated platform that supports student learning today—while preparing institutions and learners for an AI‑powered future.
  • Give students tools that help them practice, progress, and build confidence—while keeping learning securely governed by the institution. AI‑powered learning tools provide timely feedback, personalized practice, and guided support across core academic skills—helping students stay on track and engage deeply, without adding complexity for IT or educators.
  • Equip students with the digital and AI skills they’ll need beyond graduation—within a trusted, institution‑managed environment. Microsoft 365 Education helps students learn how tao create, collaborate, and think critically using AI responsibly. Integrated tools ensure students gain real‑world experience with modern technology—without compromising privacy, compliance, or institutional control.
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  • Deliver consistent, high‑quality learning experiences—without adding operational overhead. An integrated platform reduces fragmentation across apps and tools, simplifying access for students while streamlining deployment, management, and support for institutions.
  • Protect every student's identity, device, and data point—without slowing innovation. Microsoft 365 Education is built with enterprise‑grade security and governance at its core, helping institutions manage access, policies, and compliance centrally—while confidently adopting AI‑powered capabilities at scale.
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Microsoft 365 Education provides a secure, integrated platform to support learning today—and help institutions plan confidently for what’s next.
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Microsoft 365 A1

Microsoft 365 Education A1 offers essential web‑based productivity and collaboration for schools.
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Microsoft 365 A3

Microsoft 365 Education A3 builds on foundational access with desktop apps, device management, and security for scalable IT—delivering a cohesive platform institutions can manage at scale.
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Microsoft 365 A5

Microsoft 365 Education A5 delivers advanced security, analytics, and governance for complex institutions.
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Microsoft 365 Copilot

Reduce time-consuming administrative tasks, summarize complicated topics, create content, and analyze data using Copilot, the AI platform built for education.

Teams

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

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 subscriptions.

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.

Outlook

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

Minecraft Education

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

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, the Microsoft cloud computing solution that enhances your schools’ educational offerings and infrastructure.

Whiteboard

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

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.
Microsoft 365 LTI

Enhance your Learning Management System with Microsoft 365 LTI

Experience the full potential of Microsoft education resources directly within your Learning Management System (LMS) with Microsoft 365 LTI. It’s simple to integrate, with powerful new capabilities to streamline deployment.
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Activate Microsoft 365 LTI at no cost

Bring Microsoft 365 productivity tools directly into your LMS at no additional cost. Activate Microsoft 365 LTI with your existing Microsoft 365 Education subscription.
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Seamless LMS Integration for AI-enhanced learning tools

Enhance your LMS platform—whether it’s Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, or another platform—with powerful AI tools to transform learning with Microsoft 365 LTI.
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Get built-in security and compliance

Teach and learn with confidence knowing that Microsoft 365 is backed by industry-leading security and compliance tools.
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Boost productivity with Microsoft 365 LTI

Build rich content into your course using Microsoft 365 apps and Microsoft 365 Copilot, and accelerate learning with powerful tools in assignments - all within your LMS.
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Pricing options

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Microsoft 365 Education offers flexible plans—A1, A3, and A5—designed to scale from individual classrooms to entire campuses or school systems.
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“To deploy just 20 devices back in the day with all the different management tools you needed to use, and the applications you had to install, was daunting. But with the same IT department, we rolled out 20,000 devices at a time with Microsoft 365, which is nothing short of a miracle.”

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“The Philippines is the call center capital of the world. Many of our students are currently working as call center agents answering calls from abroad. With Microsoft Reading Progress, students can develop themselves to be better English speakers so when they interview in these call centers, they have a better chance of being hired.”

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Discover resources for Microsoft 365 Education such as support, documentation, and training.
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Find resources and answers to your questions for Microsoft 365 Education products.
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Microsoft 365 Education documentation

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Frequently asked questions

  • Microsoft 365 Education is a secure, institution‑wide platform that integrates identity, security, collaboration, devices, and AI—so institutions can protect access, govern data, and scale learning with confidence.
  • 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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Plan, prepare, and move forward

Connect with a Microsoft Education specialist to identify the right Microsoft 365 Education plan—A1, A3, or A5—for your institution today and into the future.
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Education stories

Discover proven approaches from peer education institutions

Learn how systems like Broward County Public Schools use Microsoft 365 Education to improve operations and support students at scale.
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Explore tools for literacy and multilingual education

Learn how to promote literacy and multilingual education with Learning Tools and Learning Accelerators from Microsoft.
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