See how the latest tools available to students and educators can improve tasks, study, and collaboration for better engagement and learning outcomes.

Software & Applications for Education

Discover the differences between Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows 11 SE and determine the best low-cost EDU devices for your education customers' unique needs.

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Windows 11 SE is a cloud-first operating system tailored for education by prioritizing accessibility, ease of use and management, and affordability. Windows 11 SE for education is built for teachers who need a simple, distraction-free environment for their students and for school IT admins who need devices that are secure, easy to deploy and manage, and perform well all day across the changing conditions of a school year. The cloud-first operating system is optimized to deliver great education experiences and catered to the unique needs of K-8 education. Recommend this lightweight operating system in the classroom to encourage collaboration and save money on data storage space.

Windows 11 SE 
Security and Privacy 

Ensures that students, teachers, and schools remain secure and privacy intact with with robust protocols to safeguard devices, identities, and data whether users or in the classroom, learning remotely from home, and everywhere in between.

Metrics 

Supports educators in assessing student strengths and weaknesses by providing actionable insights into key performance indicators so learners can be adequately challenged while also ensuring they don't fall behind their peers. 

Mobility

Empowers users with more ways to interact with their devices than putting finger to key or screen thanks to options like voice command and control, eye control, and AI assisted voice typing for drafting documents and emails.

Accessibility 

Promotes equality in today's hybrid classrooms with valued accessibility features such as color control, live captions, Immersive Reader, and more to help students of all learning styles and abilities focus, engage, and collaborate to actualize their full potential.

Windows 11 for Education Selling Points

Talk to your education customers about upgrading to Windows 11 and deliver a richer, more refined experience for students and educators while building your education practice for better returns.

From vital accessibility improvements to immerse and support all students, including those with special needs and second language learners, to comprehensive security features to ensure the safety of students as they explore topics online, Windows 11 raises the bar by giving educators more tools to personalize learning, engage every student, build confidence, and cultivate a love of learning.

Deliver best in-class solutions for grade-A outcomes.
Windows 11 for Education

With these powerful tools, students can start practicing right away, and you can save time creating, reviewing, and analyzing assignments to help get them ahead.

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View our new Learning Accelerators guide

The EDU Desktop bundle is transitioning into two new bundles: Microsoft 365 A3 and Microsoft 365 A5 which include the Office 365, Windows 10 Enterprise, and Enterprise Mobility + Security suites. Both of these new bundles also include generous student use benefits** that allow you to cover your student population with many of the same productivity and security tools that you purchase for faculty and staff. We are also continuing to offer our free Office 365 A1 for Education suite for your core collaboration needs.

We are excited to introduce Microsoft 365 for Education - a new licensing model to help our customers accelerate their digital transformation! The new model reflects our efforts to reduce licensing complexity and aligns more closely with our cloud products while maintaining full flexibility for hybrid environments.

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Secure & future-proof IT 

Manage technology by monitoring threats and pushing updates seamless to a single classroom or to an entire district with Microsoft 365 Education. 

Inclusively designed 

Create a learning environment where everyone can fully participate with built-in, non-stigmatizing tools across the Microsoft 365 Education suite.

Prepare for the future 

Get students familiar with tools they’ll likely use for years to come, like Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams, while building future-ready skills.

Accelerate Learning

Help students catch up, keep up, and get ahead with our new Learning Accelerators that offer more practice through immediate feedback in core subjects.

Microsoft 365 Education Benefits

The education market is an opportunity to expand your Microsoft 365 sales into a new vertical, adding new products to your practice. You can help students change the world while making educators’ jobs easier and faster. In the process, you’ll build long-term customer relationships.

How does building an education practice with Microsoft 365 Education and SYNNEX support a better future? Microsoft designed these tools to promote diversity and inclusion by helping all students realize their potential, and also partnered with schools to learn how to better support educators’ goals. The result is an extensive suite of assistive technology built into Microsoft 365 Education.

Improving learning outcomes while saving educators time and money
Microsoft 365 Education

Give your education customers an introduction to Microsoft Reflect, a check-in app for students and teachers.

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Lean more about Reflect and other Teams Learning tools

Help students recognize and navigate their emotions by providing regular opportunities to share and be heard. Reflect is a tab in Teams for Education that can help broaden learners' emotional vocabulary and deepen empathy for their peers while also providing valuable feedback to educators for a healthy classroom community.

Responsive teaching that reflects the reality of the student experience using Microsoft Reflect
Address learning barriers 

Implement proven techniques that make the educational experience more accessible and inclusive for all students regardless of their age, language, fluency, or abilities.

Go beyond the classroom

Bridge the gap between educational and professional environments with hands-on learning tools that help students succeed in the classroom and beyond.

Develop social skills 

Support students’ emotional and social well-being and provide a safe space to navigate feelings with age-appropriate activities that promote social-emotional learning (SEL).

Encourage independent learning

Access personalized tools that allow students to practice and learn on their own–with help from our AI-assisted digital learning coaches and built-in progress trackers.

Connect, collaborate, and educate, all in one place

Finally, there’s a better way to connect the dots between in-person and remote learning. Microsoft Teams for education brings everyone and everything together in one powerful communication app for schools–and it’s free for students and teachers of all grade levels with a valid email address. Microsoft Teams for schools makes it easy for educators to set up virtual classrooms, keep assignments organized, and collaborate on Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files in real time. Users can reach out to students, staff, parents, and guardians in a secure digital environment—including video conferencing and supervised messaging for students.

Empower students and educators with Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams for Education