office 365 for education

Office 365 for Education

Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP

SharePoint Consultant

@davecoleman146

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What is Office 365?

The small print (Well not so small)

• Financially-backed

• 99.9% availability

• Live 24 x 7 customer phone support for advanced IT issues

• Single sign on using latest federation technology

• Configurable anti-spam filtering

• Free Active Directory synchronization

A2 Plan

• Free for academic institution (YES REALLY!)

• Cloud based email, calendar and contacts

• Use your own domain name

• Instant Messaging, voice and video chat

• Online conferencing with desktop sharing

• Web-based viewing and editing of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote files

A3 Plan

• Everything in A2, plus

• Office Professional Plus desktop version subscription (for up to 5 devices per user)

• Unlimited email storage

• Archiving

• eDiscovery tools to support your compliance needs

• Hosted voicemail support

• Students £1.90 per user per month

• Staff £3.40 per user per month

A4 Plan

• Everything in A2 & A3 Plus

• Enterprise voice capabilities

• Replace or enhance a PBX with Lync Server on-premises

• Students £2.20 per user per month

• Staff £4.50 per user per month

But what's in it for me?

• Microsoft takes care of:-

• Patching

• Updating

• Upgrading

Demo of Office 365

The Pros

• Scalability

• Cost

• High Availability

• NO MORE MAINTENANCE

The Cons

• MIS Integration (not impossible but very difficult)

• Parental Access?

• No choice in pace of upgrades

Head in the Clouds but Feet firmly on the ground

•The Hybrid approach

What is it?

• Student Mail

• Student Content• GCSE Revision sites

• A Level Revision sites

• My Sites

• Lync Federation

• Connection to social feeds

• Connection to social media

Questions

Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP

SharePoint Consultant

@davecoleman146

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