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Students are eligible for Office 365 Education for free, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and now Microsoft Teams, plus additional classroom tools. All you need is a valid school email address. It’s not a trial – so get started today.

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How to use Office 365 Education in the classroom—this season’s You Can in :90 series is here to help

October 28, 2019.

By Microsoft Education Team

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It’s back and better than ever! A new season of You Can in :90 is here to show you how to transform your classroom with Office 365 Education. This simple video series cuts to the chase with great tips on using tools from Microsoft Education.

This latest playlist is full of simple tips to help you spark collaboration and exciting new ideas to hone student presentation skills and more. And the best part: it’s faster and easier than you might think. Dive in, check it all out and don’t forget that eligible students and teachers are able to sign up for   Office 365 Education for free !

Students can co-author the same document at the same time with Office 365 Education!

Encourage collaboration by empowering your students to co-author a document in real time with Office 365 Education. Auto-save is a key feature, too. When students work together this way, only select people can access and edit shared files. Later, you or your students can share with a broader group or the whole class. Don’t have Office 365? Don’t worry! Office 365 Education is free for students and teachers. Sign up here .

You can easily collaborate with other teachers in shared documents with Office 365 Education!

If you want other teachers in your school to work with you on a shared document, you can easily share files and collaborate with them. When you give your peers access to a document to read, edit or work on, they’ll get a notification and be able to get right into the document. It’s a great way to collaborate across your teacher community in real time.

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We know life’s competing demands can keep you on the go, and flexibility is important. Work wherever you want with your favorite Office 365 apps and services, staying productive and focused on the go. Just remember Office 365 Education is free for students and teachers. All you have to do is sign up here .

You can use AI to make your life easier in PowerPoint!

Let’s face it—presentations can be stressful. We’re here to help. A few years ago, the PowerPoint team took a bet on artificial intelligence (AI) and started the PowerPoint Designer effort. We started by making photo slides compelling, eventually adding capabilities around transforming text slides into more visual counterparts like process diagrams and timelines. More recently, we started complementing text with iconography. Today, we’re excited to share that not only have we hit a major milestone in PowerPoint Designer usage, we’re also announcing new Designer capabilities that suggest high-quality content to jump start authoring and provide context to the information on your slides.

You can use Presenter Coach to build confidence and improve your presentations skills!

We’re excited to share that our AI effort is moving beyond Designer—with our new Presenter Coach—intended to help our users build confidence in their presenting abilities. AI-powered Presenter Coach allows teachers and students to enter rehearsal mode and receive on-screen guidance and feedback about pacing, inclusive language, conciseness of language and more as they speak into a microphone. At the end of each rehearsal session, the presenter receives a detailed report with metrics for additional practice. Presenter Coach is available in PowerPoint for the web. Give it a try!

Looking for more info on how to use Presenter Coach? Here’s a support article to get you going.

You can generate a Math practice quiz for your students!

Students can now generate a practice math quiz in OneNote directly from the Math Assistant, consisting of a set of problems like the one the student in the video above is working on. The quiz is created as a Form and embedded directly into OneNote, allowing independence and as much practice and help as a student may need. For more help on how to get started with your own practice quizzes, check out the support article here .

Looking for our full list of You Can in :90 videos? Take a look at the YouTube playlist here .

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Get started with Office 365 for free

Students and educators at eligible institutions can sign up for Office 365 Education for free, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and now Microsoft Teams, plus additional classroom tools. All you need is a valid school email address. It’s not a trial — so get started today.

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Microsoft 365 Education

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Microsoft 365 is available in a variety of plans to best meet the needs of your organization. If you're looking for the differences between the Microsoft 365 and Office 365 Education plans, this article will show you which features are included in each of them.

Microsoft 365 provides a complete system, including Office 365, Windows 10, and Enterprise Mobility and Security. The following table lists the Office 365 for Education A1, A3, and A5 features along with the corresponding Microsoft 365 for Education A3 and A5 features. To compare features across business and enterprise plans, see Compare Microsoft 365 for business plans , or, for a more detailed list of features, see the relevant service description under Microsoft 365 and Office 365 service descriptions . To search for support articles and information, see Office Help & Training .

Available plans

For specific information about pricing and features, see Office 365 Education plans .

Services and features

Each Microsoft 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 and Microsoft 365 plan so that you can choose the solution that best meets your needs. To review services and features in greater detail, see the Office 365 Education service description.

Office 365 Feature availability

1 Includes Exchange Online Plan 1 plus supplemental features. 2 Includes Exchange Online Plan 2. 3 Includes SharePoint Online Plan 1 plus supplemental features. 4 Includes SharePoint Online Plan 2. 5 Microsoft Project is not included in Office 365 but can be acquired separately. Project Online Essentials is free. If you are a student or an educational institution, you may be eligible to purchase Project Plan 3 and Plan 5 at educational prices. 6 Includes Intune. 7 Servers and CALs are included for Exchange, SharePoint, and Skype for Business. 8 Microsoft 365 Apps is required in order to apply protections and send protected emails from the Outlook Desktop. 9 Formerly Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection. 10 Formerly Azure Advanced Threat Protection. 11 Formerly Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection. 12 Viva Learning is available as a paid add-on to Office 365 and Microsoft 365 A1, A3, and A5 for Faculty. 13 It is not available for Students or in Student Use Benefits. 14 Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 2 is not available with Office 365 A3 Student Use Benefit. 15 Viva Engage core functionality is included with these plans. Viva Engage premium capabilities are available to Viva suite customers.

Microsoft 365 Feature availability

1 Includes Exchange Online Plan 1 plus supplemental features. 2 Includes Exchange Online Plan 2. 3 Includes SharePoint Online Plan 1 plus supplemental features. 4 Includes SharePoint Online Plan 2. 5 Microsoft Project is not included in Office 365 but can be acquired separately. Project Online Essentials is free. If you are a student or an educational institution, you may be eligible to purchase Project Plan 3 and Plan 5 at educational prices. 6 Includes Intune. 7 Servers and CALs are included for Exchange, SharePoint, and Skype for Business. 8 ECAL or Core CAL, depending on the version of A3 that is purchased—with A5, the ECAL rights are included. 9 Microsoft 365 Apps is required in order to apply protections and send protected emails from the Outlook Desktop. 10 Formerly Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection. 11 Formerly Azure Advanced Threat Protection. 12 Formerly Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection. 13 Universal Print included in Windows Education A3 and A5. 14 0 (zero) Print-job included. 15 Viva Learning is available as a paid add-on to Office 365 and Microsoft 365 A1, A3, and A5 for Faculty. 16 It is not available for Students or in Student Use Benefits. 17 Viva Engage core functionality is included with these plans. Viva Engage premium capabilities are available to Viva suite customers.

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