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.
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.
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.
Explore Microsoft 365 Education plans
Microsoft 365 Education provides a secure, integrated platform to support learning today—and help institutions plan confidently for what’s next.
Microsoft 365 Education A1 offers essential web-based productivity and collaboration for schools.
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.
Microsoft 365 Education A5 delivers advanced security, analytics, and governance for complex institutions.
Explore powerful learning products
Take Microsoft 365 Education anywhere with mobile-friendly tools that let you work or study your way.
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.
Bring Microsoft 365 productivity tools directly into your LMS at no additional cost. Activate Microsoft 365 LTI with your existing Microsoft 365 Education subscription.
Enhance your LMS platform—whether it’s Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, or another platform—with powerful AI tools to transform learning with Microsoft 365 LTI.
Teach and learn with confidence knowing that Microsoft 365 is backed by industry-leading security and compliance tools.
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.
Talk with an expert about plan pricing
Microsoft 365 Education offers flexible plans—A1, A3, and A5—designed to scale from individual classrooms to entire campuses or school systems.
Get a Quote!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.
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.
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.
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.
There are three tiers of Microsoft 365 Education available, each with an array of helpful and inclusively designed features.
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: Includes all the teaching and learning features of Microsoft 365 A3.
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.
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