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Microsoft Office 365 Education

Office 365 Education is a free collection of services that allows you to collaborate and share your work.

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Online training platform

With our partners Tablet Academy we can offer an online training platform where experienced educators deliver content relevant to teachers. The current content focuses on Office 365, but this will soon be expanded to include G Suite and other leading technologies. Training is available for Primary and Secondary education.

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Designed for harmony

It has been designed to help students and teachers work together and includes Office Online (Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote), 1TB of OneDrive storage, Yammer and SharePoint sites.

Targeted to Educational needs

Office 365 is targeted at the needs of education so staff and students will find it very familiar. It works with existing Office 2010 and even Office 2007 applications, and the web-based Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote apps use the same user-interface as their Office 2013 equivalents.

Exchange-based email

Office 365 integrates Exchange-based email, scheduling and contacts management, SharePoint for intranet-based collaboration, and instant messaging and voice and video conferencing and chat using Microsoft Lync.

It also provides access to Microsoft’s Office Web Apps; streamlined online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote that can be used to view, create and edit documents.

Empower education

Help students and teachers accomplish much more with simple file sharing, real-time co-authoring, online classes and conferencing – all accessible anywhere.

Compliance Simplified

Protect student privacy by setting permissions and policies. Archive and use in-place legal hold to help meet compliance needs. Advanced data protection helps keep your data safe.

Gain IT control

Reduce IT overheads and hassles while staying in control. Manage the cloud on your terms, easily, with automated tasks.

What does Microsoft Office 365 consist of?

Office online

Create and edit Word, OneNote, PowerPoint, and Excel documents from a browser.

OneNote Staff Notebook

OneNote Staff Notebooks have a personal workspace for every staff member or teacher, a content library for shared information and a collaboration space for everyone to work together, all within one powerful notebook.

Educational Digital Storytelling

With Sway, a new Office 365 app, teachers can create interactive web-based lessons, assignments, project recaps, newsletters and more right from a phone, tablet, or browser.

Students can use Sway to create reports, assignments, projects, study materials and portfolios. Sways are easy to share and look great on any screen.

Email and calendars

Use business-class email through a rich and familiar Outlook experience you can access from your desktop or from a web browser using Outlook Web App. Get a 50 GB mailbox per user and send attachments up to 150 MB.

Online classes and conferencing

Host online classes, parent-teacher conferences and more with audio and video using one-click screen sharing and HD video conferencing.

File storage and sharing

OneDrive for Business gives each user 1 TB of personal cloud storage that can be accessed from anywhere. Easily share documents with others inside and outside your organisation and control who can see and edit each file.

School video portal

Easily manage videos within your organisation. Office 365 Video is a school-wide destination for video uploads, sharing and discovery and smooth playback across devices.

School social network

Secure, private social networking for your school. Yammer collaboration software helps students and teachers connect with each other, share information and organise around projects so they can work and learn better together.

Instant messaging and Skype

Connect with other Skype for Business users via instant message, voice calls, and video calls, and let people know your availability with your online status. Share presence, IM and audio calling with Skype users.