Microsoft 365 for Edu

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• #4: WHY Every student, teacher, and school should have access to the best technology. WHAT IT MEANS FOR STUDENTS: We can level the playing field and ensure every student has the tools they need to succeed. That starts with efficient, affordable devices that reduce the administrative burden on teachers and IT departments and allow them to concentrate on what matters most: their students.
• #5: Scenario link: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/pflugerville-education-windows10
• #7: It’s never been easier to get your classroom started running Windows: In-place upgrade for most schools with existing devices Windows devices are now even simpler to deploy. With no more wipe-and-load, IT generalists and teachers can easily set up Windows devices for use in the classroom. Streamlined setup process; out-of-box experience including bulk MDM and AAD enrollment.  Windows updates outside of class times, every time:  Use device provisioning to set up simplified policies or MDM to set updates to install and reboot outside of active hours. Windows works for user groups from one to 100: Easily deploy Windows devices in multi-user scenarios: Set up School PCs makes it simple and straightforward, even with shared devices. New shared-user performance policies: Optimize Windows for shared device usage. Apply additional policies during set up: Customize the lock screen, utilize CleanPC, bulk AAD join or set up Take a Test using Set up School PCs. Quickly sign into a shared device and be productive: After setup, teachers and students can log into a shared device quickly and receive their personalized experience. Take a Test: Simplify formative assessments:  Couples with your favorite assessment websites to deliver digital formative assessments   Fast and simple to integrate into the classroom: Teachers can easily create a Take a Test link to share with students via a class website or Class Notebooks Integrates with key accessibility needs: Provides a secure online assessment platform for all learners, letting students use assistive technology and enabling teachers, IT, or ISVs to selectively disable lockdown settings for accessibility More easily deploy high-stakes testing: Simplifies standardized testing, providing schools with integrated high-stakes testing lockdown on local devices or through remote sessions 3D for Everyone -- Improve comprehension, capture imagination, be creative The most complete 3D experience on any platform, with Paint 3D, 3D Builder, 3D in PowerPoint, Affordable MR headsets and HoloLens 86% of students report improved learning in 3D; 89% of students say creativity is essential to their future Every classroom is a maker space for experiential learning: Spark the imagination of teachers and students: Windows 10 and STEM give makers an approachable platform for learning, tinkering, building, and exploring. Transformative and game-changing classroom experiences: Simple, easy-to-use programming environments; Ready-to-use kits for STEM students; Cutting-edge technology; Enable real experiential learning. Built for creators, makers and 21st Century teachers: The power of a Windows PC now matched with amazing STEM apps in the Microsoft Store
• #8: Key message: The improved Intune for Education is a cloud-based service that delivers easy setup and control of Windows 10 apps and devices in the classroom. Intune for Education is at the core of a modern platform to create the conditions for learning in the classroom. Microsoft’s cloud technologies can be deployed alongside or integrate easily with your existing infrastructure. The top feedback we have heard since launch a year ago has been better support for troubleshooting with Windows 10 devices managed by Intune for Education and scaling deployment for different sizes of districts. Lets start with the one area where we have got consistent feedback from our customers and partners – how about an easier way to set up and manage devices?  In response, we created Intune for Education – taking a rock-solid product built on top of our commercial Intune offering and making it easier, customized for Education customers Easy deployment: With the new Windows 10, it is easier than ever to set up a new PC, including very light-touch device configuration using a USB key Simple enrollment: Bring devices under management simply by AAD joining, either through the Setup School PCs app & USB stick or Out Of Box Experience Zero-touch management: Microsoft for Education and approved third-party apps, with appropriate settings applied to each enrolled device by default. With the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, IT admins can now configure new settings like set WiFi  profiles, enable Windows Automatic Redeployment and Power Settings via Intune for Education. We heard a lot of feedback from customers about the need for more IT visibility and insights to inform device deployment & troubleshooting with Intune for Education. Given this, we have added a couple key features to help with this: Search : Allows an admin to search for specific user/device and view user/device details page. User & device details pages: Once you’ve found the user/device you can see which settings and apps should be applied and their deployment status for a user/device. Also, as part of troubleshooting, administrators want to be able to see the “paper trail” of changes that were made, possibly by other admins, so they can act to fix any deployment issues, especially those pertaining to Windows security. Audit Log for apps/settings changes on a group: Allows an admin to see which changes were made, by whom and when. Windows Defender status reporting: Customers told us they liked Windows Defender protection but now you can  see more detailed status on devices under Intune for Education management. We now include information on vulnerabilities detected and scan status, Shared devices: Managed devices can be shared. Each user can get different settings/apps if required. Designed for Education: Smart defaults for schools and the ability to target granular policies by device or user groups after syncing SIS data via School Data Sync Scales to your environment with delegated administration from a district to a school level and bridging the gap between on-premise ConfigMgr deployments to modern cloud Intune management with co-management. Includes rights to the full enterprise-grade Intune console for cross-platform management. IT admins at a district or system level often want to delegate administrator permissions and management visibility to school level administrators who just want to manage their school of devices. It can be complex for less technical administrators to assign these role-specific permissions to school level staff in the full Intune console, especially with large, decentralized IT staffs. With upcoming updates, IT admins can more easily delegate administration via Intune for Education with a new “School Administrator ” role.   Intune for Education Resource collection (Customer-Ready): https://aka.ms/intuneforeduresources Website and Free Trial: https://aka.ms/intuneforedupage 90-Day free trial: https://aka.ms/intuneforedutrial Intune for Education console: https://intuneeducation.portal.azure.com/ State of Modern Deployment White Paper: http://aka.ms/moderndeployment         Intune for Education "teaser“: http://aka.ms/intuneeduteaservideo                Intune for EDU and EMS EDU Infographic #1 (high level value prop with MSFT EDU): http://aka.ms/emseduinfographic1                   Intune for EDU and EMS EDU (deeper technical): http://aka.ms/emseduinfographic2        Intune for EDU Technical datasheet: http://aka.ms/modernedtech Intune for EDU Deployment Training videos: https://aka.ms/intuneedudeploymenttraining
• #9: * Real-time co-authoring available in Word and PowerPoint. Co-authors must be using Office 2016 or Office Online. Excel co-authoring available on Android, iOS, Windows Mobile and Excel Online. Co-authoring capability coming soon to Excel on Windows desktop.
• #10: Key Message: Work from any browser and any device with Office Online and Office Mobile apps Office 365 Education is the most advanced and complete set of intelligent tolls and services to help teachers and students achieve more. Office Online performance that matches teacher and student expectations Fill top EDU feature gaps with authoring (equations editing in Word) and real-time collaboration (Classroom scale co-authoring) Learning tools in Office Online to create a more inclusive classroom The Office Mobile apps—Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote—are built from the ground up for touch, offer the familiar experience that Office customers expect, and deliver the capabilities people need for on-the-go productivity tablets and small-screen devices. In each of the apps, users get full-fidelity viewing of their Office documents, knowing edits and changes made on any device will render perfectly across all their devices.  Tightly integrated with OneDrive, the Office Mobile apps are fully cloud-connected, making it easy to access your documents from anywhere, pick up where you last left off, and co-author documents and projects. Files are now automatically saved for you, so you won’t lose changes and letting others see your edits as you work together. And there are new intelligent features, like Tell Me, that make it easier for you to do what you want in fewer steps.
• #11: Key message:  We’ve heard from educators throughout our journey with Microsoft Classroom Preview that some of their biggest pain points are just managing efficient class workflows. With Teams, we’re bringing forward all the features you knew and loved from Classroom Preview like assignments management and OneNote Class Notebook into one digital hub, so you can save time on the everyday logistics and focus on educating.   But with Teams, we saw an opportunity to create a space that does more than just simplify class workflows. With Teams, we saw an opportunity to create a space that engages the voice within every student. One that helps them build communication and collaboration skills they’ll need to be successful in the future by using the rich text, video, voice, and sometimes fun inputs they already know and love. And with Teams, you have something that’s going to grow with the students as they do – on their journey from lower to middle to high school, on to college, and after they graduate and enter the workforce.    And of course, the classroom isn’t the only place in the school that needs a new way of communicating and collaborating. With Teams, you have one digital hub for the entire school. Microsoft Teams is a hub for teamwork in Office 365 Education, and we recently introduced new classroom experience with Teams.   In Q3 CY2017, education customers will be able to work together in three new types of teams built for the way teachers, students, and staff collaborate– Class, PLC, and Staff.    (Class) Microsoft Teams gives teachers a single digital hub to manage a more connected and collaborative classroom experience for their students. School Data Sync saves teachers time by automatically creating Classes and keeping student rosters up to date. Class Notebooks are built into every Class, allowing teachers to easily organize their lesson plans and provide personalized learning support for each student. Teachers can also quickly create, review, and grade Assignments all without leaving Teams. Class integrations with Office 365 and apps like Flipgrid, Busuu, and Kahoot! mean students can create and collaborate anytime, anywhere. And with persistent conversations, teachers and students can organically share feedback to create a more supportive and engaging learning environment.    (PLC) Teachers can connect regularly with their peers and continue their own development through Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) in Teams. PLCs automatically come with PLC Notebooks so teachers can share best practices and collaborate on lesson plans to improve the academic performance of their students. With persistent conversations, teachers have a collective history of their discussion and content to keep everyone up-to-date even as new teachers join the team. In addition to having easy access to Office 365 apps they use every day, teachers can customize their PLC to keep the resources they need right at their fingertips.  (Staff) Staff teams allow school administrators and teachers to share information and work together school-wide initiatives. With Staff Notebooks built in, staff can publish school policies for the whole team to access or create individual professional development plans. With persistent conversations and integration with Office 365 apps, staff can leverage the same powerful tools and connected learning experiences they create for their students for their own collaboration.   And of course, education customers can always create a team to work together on any project-based or team-based activity, such as organizing after school student groups. Schools can leverage the integration with Office 365 services to coordinate events and keep track of team files right in the app. Since every Team is backed by Office 365 Groups, schools can even extend their conversations to their broader communities through Yammer or Outlook.  
• #12: Key Takeaway: Help every student to become interested in STEM because it’s not just for the ‘’’geeky” kids – it’s the future for most if not all kids.