Microsoft in the Classroom

Quick Reference Guide

Microsoft in EducationLearn about Microsoft’s solutions for education that help transform teaching and learning. Find useful resources for educators and school leadership, and access special offers for students and teachers. The calendar of news and events keeps you in the know on happenings within the world of education.www.microsoft.com/education

Microsoft Educator CommunityJoin the Microsoft Educator Community (MSEC), where you can stay abreast of global trends in education, and gain access to professional development training, community discussions, free software, step-by-step tutorials, and tested lesson plans. It’s free to educators and schools all around the world!www.education.microsoft.com

Office 365 ProPlus benefitGet Office 365 ProPlus for your teachers, staff, and students for free! Eligible institutions with a volume licensing agreement simply direct their participants to the Office 365 for Students site, where they sign in with their school credentials and can install Office 365 on up to five devices. www.office.com/teachers

Microsoft in the Classroom Scenarios

Increase instructional

time - decreasing

administrative tasks

Real-time feedback to

students

Helping teachers work with students

who miss school

Developing digital literacy

Meeting the needs of diverse learners

Staff collaboration using Groups in Office 365

Students seeking

solutions to global issues

Cultivate collaboration

with Staff Notebook

Preparing students to

be productive adults

Online learning

Beyond the paperless classroom

Access free professional development at aka.ms/mic

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Microsoft in the Classroom • Quick Reference Guide

Create dynamic learning experiences in and outside of the classroom with devices that deliver the power of a PC and the mobility of a tablet. Plus, Microsoft is making Windows 10 available to everyone FREE for the first year!www.microsoft.com/windows10

Inspire, engage, and enable your students to do their best work in and out of the classroom using familiar Office apps. Office 365 Education is a set of free, modern productivity tools that keeps students and teachers connected to one another and their school work from wherever they are, on whatever device they’re using. Create, share and edit files in real-time and store everything automatically to the cloud.www.microsoft.com/education/office365

Online lessons made simple. With Office Mix you can record, write and draw on your slides, add quizzes and labs, share in the cloud, play back on any device, and see the results in real-time. And it’s all free if you have PowerPoint 2013 or Office 365.www.mix.office.com

Learn about the ultimate digital notebook for the classroom, where students can take notes and organize all of their schoolwork, teachers can create interactive textbooks with embedded multimedia and web links, and all can collaborate through a unified resource. www.onenote.com

Sway is an intelligent app that helps you express your ideas on an interactive, web-based canvas. Sway is integrated with OneDrive, your devices, social networks, and the web, making it easy to drag and drop your content from a variety of sources, and its built-in design engine integrates your content into a cohesive layout without any hassles.http://sway.com

Discover how Skype can open up your classroom to the world! Allow your students to collaborate with other classes, wherever they are. Take a virtual field trip anywhere around the globe, and find guest speakers to join in and bring your lessons to life! http://education.skype.com

Bring a safer, ad-free search experience to your students! When a district signs up for Bing in the Classroom, we remove the ads from Bing.com search results. Then we turn on SafeSearch with strict filtering, to help filter out content that doesn’t belong in schools. And finally, we add enhanced privacy settings that prevent the use of search data for personalized ad profiles. Not available in all countries.www.bing.com/classroom