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.
Microsoft 365 for Education
Explore a suite of Microsoft products tailored for education that work together
Microsoft 365 – A1
A simple, one-time-per-device learning solution for modern workloads. Save time by managing all devices in a single dashboard.
Desktop and Online Version
Online Only
Available as add-on
Desktop Only
Microsoft 365 – A3
The right solution for institutions that need all the A1 features, plus desktop apps, security, and device management.
Desktop and Online Version
Online Only
Available as add-on
Desktop Only
Microsoft 365 – A5
Our most comprehensive plan features everything A3 offers, plus unified communications, analytics, and advanced security capabilities.
Desktop and Online Version
Online Only
Available as add-on
Desktop Only
Cybersecurity Solutions
Create secure learning experiences backed by world-class access management and information protection with built-in security tools.
Microsoft 365
Prepare students for future jobs with the same apps used by 95% of Fortune 500 organizations, such as Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, and Word.
Windows Devices
Help every learner do their best work with intuitive tools built into ready-to-go Windows devices.
Artificial Intelligence
Take advantage of the new opportunities AI creates for students, teachers, and educators. Learn more about our commitment to impactful, responsible, and equitable AI.
CYBERSECURITY
Secure classroom technology
Get peace of mind knowing that advanced security features protect against cyberattacks and keep your data safe—all
while managing complex education ecosystems with ease and generating positive ROI.
118% ROI over three years by deploying Microsoft Education A5.
Use a solution with single sign-on, multifactor authentication, and conditional access such as Microsoft Entra ID to protect against 99.9% of cyberattacks.
Student-centered Solutions
Discover solutions tailored to meet students’ needs
Explore powerful products
Take Microsoft 365 anywhere with mobile-friendly tools that let you work or study your way.
Copilot
Reduce time-consuming administrative tasks, summarize complicated topics, create content, and analyze data using Copilot, a free AI-powered Microsoft tool.
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 the 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, Microsoft’s 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.
Service availability for each plan for Office 365
Each Office 365 education plan includes a number of individual services, such as Exchange Online and SharePoint Online. The following services are available in each Office 365 plan.
| Microsoft 365 for Education | |||
| A1 | A3 | A5 | |
| Services | |||
| Exchange Online Plan 1 (+ supplemental features), Teams for Education | |||
| Office 365 platform, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft 365 for the web, Viva Engage, Azure Information Protection | |||
| Exchange Online Plan 2, Office applications | |||
| Power BI, Phone System/Audio Conferencing/Calling Plan capabilities | |||
| Microsoft Project | |||
| Platform Feature | |||
| Administer Office 365 by using the Microsoft 365 admin center or Windows PowerShell and Protect content by using Azure Information Protection | |||
| Microsoft Briefing email10, Microsoft Forms, Microsoft Graph API, Microsoft Planner, Microsoft PowerApps11, Microsoft Power Automate11, Microsoft StaffHub (retired), Microsoft Stream8, Microsoft Sway6, Microsoft Teams for Education, Office Delve, Office 365 Groups, Office 365 Video (retired), OneNote Class Notebook | |||
| Microsoft Bookings, Viva Insights – Personal insights | |||
| Cloud identity, Federated identity, or multi-factor authentication, Office 365 desktop setup, Bulk upload Using .csv files, Directory Sync tool, Exchange simple (cutover) migration, delete accounts and reset user passwords from Office 365 or by using Windows PowerShell2, Users can change their own password3, manage licenses4, manage security groups from Office 365, Multiple administrator roles available, allow a partner to administer Office 365 for you, Microsoft Entra services | |||
| Add custom 2nd-level domains (like fourthcoffee.com), Add custom 3rd-level domains (like marketing.fourthcoffee.com), Add up to 900 custom domains, DNS records managed by Office 365 (full redelegation), DNS records managed at your DNS hosting provider (partial redelegation), Use name.onmicrosoft.com domain or a custom domain name for email addresses and Teams for Education, Use name.sharepoint.com for your team site, Host a public website with a different provider, Use a different provider for email and IM, Domain ownership verification required for custom domains, Automated domain purchase and domain verification available for domains purchased through Go Daddy | |||
| Use a custom domain name for your team site | |||
| Status information available on the Service health or Service status page, Status of individual alerts available on the Microsoft 365 admin center dashboard, Service health RSS feed | |||
| Active and inactive mailboxes, New and deleted mailboxes, New and deleted groups, Mailbox usage, Types of mailbox connections, Sent and received mail, Top senders and recipients, Spam detections, Malware detections, Top malware for mail, Rule matches for mail, Top rule matches for mail, Top Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policy matches for mail, Data loss prevention or DLP policy matches by severity for mail, DLP policy matches, overrides, and false positives for mail, Top DLP rule matches for mail, IM and audio sessions, Application sharing, web, and dial-in conferences, Video, application sharing, and file transfer sessions, IM and audio/video conferences, Downloadable mail protection reports, Browser used, Operating system used, Create your own reports using Microsoft 365 reporting web services | |||
| Regular updates provided to all customers, Notifications sent to Message Center when action is required, Roadmap.office.com for some service updates, Option to turn on Targeted release | |||
| Online help, Community, Other self-help resources, Self-paced training | |||
| IPv4 and IPv6 protocols | |||
| Privacy, security, and transparency, Secure Score | |||
| Advanced Security Management | |||
| Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Purview Customer Lockbox, Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium)7, Threat Intelligence | |||
| SAS 70 / SSAE16 Assessments, ISO 27001 certified, EU Model Clauses, EU Safe Harbor, HIPAA-Business Associate Agreement, FISMA Authority to Operate, Microsoft Data Processing Agreement | |||
| PCI-governed PAN data | |||
| Use BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) | |||
| Create trial invitations and purchase orders for a customer who is using the specified plan, Provide delegated administration, Service continuity, Service Level Agreement, Product use rights | |||
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