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A complete solution with Windows 10, Office 365 and Intune
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Upgrade to M365 Education for more control, functionality and features
Microsoft’s free Office 365 “A1 license” is great, but some schools will want to adopt a more corporate approach to managing their environment. Upgrading to a Microsoft 365 “A3” or “A5 licence” offers this in spades, as well as access to more apps, offline versions of the Microsoft Office Suite, plus enhanced mobility management and security features.
Engage students in the classroom
Microsoft can help you make lessons more dynamic. Your school needs more than just a device or a service; your students deserve a complete solution. Transform learning with a wide range of education specific applications to enhance the way your students learn. Use Microsoft 365 Education and Windows 10 together to open up a whole new platform for learning.
Microsoft 365 Education offers so much more than just Office apps
If you’re looking for a full solution, Microsoft’s new 365 education offering not only gives you access to Office 365 but makes managing your devices easier with Microsoft Intune for Education and Windows too.
Microsoft Intune manages your devices and operating systems, which is a useful solution if you’re considering a large 1:1 deployment with Windows devices. And with the M365 enhanced packages, your security is covered with Azure Active Directory for cloud identity management, Azure Information Protection for securing data and Advanced Threat Analytics.
Office 365 and Teams
Create collaborative classrooms with Teams. Connect in learning communities and communicate with staff - all from a single Office 365 Education experience.
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Intune for Education
Manage policies, apps, and settings for all of your classroom devices - with set-up in just an hour.
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Unlock creativity in each student
Spark creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving with immersive and engaging apps. Enhance independence for students of all abilities with intelligent tools. Bring ideas to life in 3D and data visualisation tools.
Promote teamwork
Collaborate and save teachers time with a single hub for classes and Teams. Easily connect with others and co-author in real time. Meet the needs of individual students with a universal toolkit to connect, share and communicate in class and out.
Provide a simple and safe experience
Manage users, data, and devices with a single dashboard. Protect identity, apps, data, and devices with intelligent security enhanced by machine learning. Manage data archiving, governance, and discovery.
Minecraft Education Edition with Code Builder
Both A3 and A5 licences include Minecraft Education Edition – a fun and highly collaborative software game that helps students learn about creative problem solving.
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Microsoft Intune for Education and Azure
Intune for Education helps schools easily set-up and manage classroom devices. It’s a new cloud-based application that focuses on mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM), built on the proven Microsoft Intune service. It offers easy setup and management in shared learning environments.
Get Microsoft Intune for Education as part of Microsoft 365 for the ultimate solution for education.
Microsoft Intune for Education is specially designed to give schools the time to concentrate on teaching and learning without the worry of managing and maintaining devices. It’s the modern way to control how your school or college’s uses devices. Not only does it make mass deployment of devices a breeze, you can also configure specific policies to control applications.
Intune for Education makes it easy for either IT admins, or teachers, to get up-and-running in minutes on Windows devices and easily manage shared devices.
And with the M365 enhanced packages, your security is covered with Azure Active Directory for cloud identity management, Azure Information Protection for securing data and Advanced Thread Analytics.
Learn moreEnjoy easy management with Intune
With the express setup feature of Intune for Education, you can create default policies for all the devices and users in a class, school or whole MAT in just minutes. You’ll be able to customise over 150 granular settings, assign them to a student, then apply them to hardware, apps, browsers, the start menu, Windows Defender and more. Even better, any setting you assign to a user follows them to any Windows 10 device when they sign in.
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Make identity and access management easy with Azure Active Directory
Using Microsoft Azure Active Directory (available only with enhanced M365 packages), your school, college or MAT can easily manage the identities and access rights of all students, teachers and other staff via the cloud. It’s a simple way to help protect from unauthorised access and keep up with the changes needed as students join, or leave school.
Benefits of Azure Active Directory include:
- Single sign-on to any cloud and on-premises web app including Microsoft Office 365 and thousands of SaaS applications
- Log in with school credentials to enjoy the same experience regardless of device – works with iOS, Mac OS X, Android and Windows devices
- Access on-premises web applications from everywhere and protect with multi-factor authentication, conditional access policies and group-based access management
- Enjoy enterprise-standard scale and reliability that’s ideal for even the very largest academic institutions
- Connect Active Directory and other on-premises directories to Azure Active Directory in just a few clicks and maintain a consistent set of users, groups, passwords, and devices across both environments
- Enhance application access security using rule-based Azure Multi-Factor Authentication for both on-premises and cloud applications
- Reduce costs and enhance security with self-service capabilities
Azure Information Protection
Better protect your sensitive information - anytime, anywhere. With Microsoft Azure Information Protection (available only with enhanced M365 packages), you can control and help secure email, documents and sensitive data that you share outside your school, college or university. From easy classification to embedded labels and permissions, enhance data protection at all times with Azure Information Protection - no matter where it’s stored or who it’s shared with.
Advanced Threat Analytics
Available only with enhanced M365 packages, Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) is an on-premises platform that helps protect your school, college or university from multiple types of advanced targeted cyber attacks and insider threats. ATA takes information from multiple data-sources, such as logs and events in your network, to learn the behaviour of users and other entities in the organisation. It uses this to detect and alert you to suspicious activity, so you can better manage threat risks and help protect your school.
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