
This is entirely optional, the fee education plan has a ton of great stuff. The other plans do charge per user if you want to upgrade your educational organization to those plans to get the extra features. The basic plan, A1, is entirely free for an unlimited number of individual users. There are three Microsoft 365 Education plans. In this post we’ll be asking:īottom line up front: Microsoft 365 Education is totally free. It comes with Microsoft’s productivity suite with additional communication and collaboration applications. The University has subscribed to Office 365, which allows us to provide staff and students with a free copy of the Microsoft Office suite, which you can use on up to five different devices (please note that for a full version of Office 365 you will need to pay a subscription fee to Microsoft).Microsoft (formerly Office) 365 for Education looks like a great deal. The subscription is available to all University staff and students, including associates and distance learners. You must only install and use this Office 365 subscription on devices and within computer accounts that you alone use. It should not be installed on devices and accounts used by family and friends. Your subscription will remain valid as long as you are a member of the University of York (and connect online every 7-10 days).

You can continue the subscription after you leave the University if you wish - note that you will need to pay a subscription fee to Microsoft at this point. Staff using Office 365 should only use it to install Office on a personally owned device (desktop, laptop, smartphone, tablet…) or a University owned smartphone or tablet (providing this is in accordance with your department’s policies on installing software). You should not use Office 365 on University owned desktops and laptops as these are already entitled to a version of Office under the Campus Agreement:
