Create more time for teaching Microsoft education desktop software provides schools with easy-to-adopt ways to educate more effectively while helping to reduce time and effort spent outside of the learning environment. The familiar user interface in Microsoft Office 2010 provides contextual guidance to staff, teachers, and students alike, making seemingly complicated tasks easier and quicker to complete. Microsoft OneNote® can provide a secure, searchable, permanent place for all educational materials. Microsoft Outlook® includes new features, such as conversation clean-up tools, email tips, and group meeting scheduling tools, to help reduce daily email struggles. Backstage view helps make tasks, like printing, sharing, and document management, faster and easier. Microsoft SharePoint® 2010 and Office 2010 can make documents, notes, presentations, and curricula accessible at the click of a button, helping to reduce transition times between common classroom tasks and making more time available for learning.
Expand the learning environment Expand the learning environment while simplifying access and connections with the stakeholders that matter most. Facilitate connections and collaboration between teachers, administrators, staff, and students via web portals powered by SharePoint technology and with online collaboration tools from Microsoft Live@edu. Help educators at your institution build robust digital connections with students by setting up one place for all their learning essentials, by using web portals created with Office SharePoint Server. Give teachers, students, and staff the ability to store and share meeting notes and lesson plans in one single, easy-to-access location with OneNote 2010. Provide access to documents from virtually anywhere at no additional cost using Office Web Apps, the online companion to Microsoft Word, Excel®, PowerPoint®, and OneNote. Students, teachers, and staff can rely on the Presence icon in Microsoft Office Communicator to see who’s working on assignments or lesson plans. Creating My Site spaces based on SharePoint opens new opportunities for parents to participate in their children’s education and your school community.
Help improve engagement and outcomes Microsoft education desktop technologies provide educators with out-of-the-box solutions that enable scalable, authentic, and engaging learning and assessment. Using Office 2010, teachers and students can create interactive courseware and assignments featuring video, audio, blogs, podcasts, webcasts, and RSS feeds. Office 2010 makes it easier and more enjoyable than ever to create engaging class presentations with videos, audio, and effects. And with new co-authoring features, multiple users can edit documents, presentations, spreadsheets, or notebooks at the same time, allowing for better-than-ever collaboration on lesson plans and assignments. With OneNote 2010, educators and students can collate handwritten notes, documents, images, web links, audio, and video in one place, enabling reflection and assessment in a scalable digital environment. The built-in inking capability of Windows® 7enables educators to take full advantage of the transformative power of pen-based technologies in the classroom. Help prepare students to make a seamless transition between the classroom and the world beyond by using Microsoft education desktop technologies in the learning environment.
Get security, manageability, and value Microsoft education desktop technologies make up a suite of cost-effective communication and collaboration tools that are easy to deploy, secure, and manage. Microsoft Office Communications Server can provide a unified interface for students, teachers, and staff, including presence, instant messaging, voice audio, and video conferencing. Microsoft Exchange Server provides a unified approach to email, calendaring, resource scheduling, contact management, voice mail, and messaging. Microsoft education desktop technologies allow educators to choose affordable school licensing for software deployed and managed at the school or to provide students and teachers access to the latest Microsoft software online, allowing users to be added or removed as enrollments change and providing for the central management of user policies and software access.