[Trainer-talk] Most Students Can Get Microsoft Office for Free

[David Goldfield]

 From the Office blog ...

Last week, at a public event held by the New York City Department of 
Education, New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito announced 
free Office for all of their 1.1M students plus teachers. The 
room—filled with students and teachers—erupted with cheers.
But New York is not alone.
Millions of students around the world are eligible for free Office from 
their school and today we are announcing that we’ve made it easy for all 
eligible students globally to sign up themselves to get Office 365 and 
install free Office.*
That includes the 5.5 million eligible students in Australia, the nearly 
5 million eligible students in Germany, 7 million more in Brazil, 1.3 
million at Anadolu University in Turkey, every student in Hong Kong and 
millions more.
This service was previously available only in the U.S., but beginning 
today it can be accessed by any eligible student or teacher where Office 
365 is available. You’ll need a valid school email address to complete 
the sign up.
To check if you’re eligible for free Office from your school:
• Students—Go to office.com/getoffice365 and enter a school-provided 
email address.
• Teachers—Go to office.com/teachers and enter your school-provided 
email address.
Students getting Office at no additional cost to schools is a benefit 
Microsoft provides to education institutions that buy Office for faculty 
and staff. That means teachers can also sign up and enjoy all the 
benefits of Office connected to a cloud service, like using the OneNote 
Class Notebook.
Once signed up for Office 365 you get:
• The latest version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Access and 
Publisher installed on up to five PCs or Macs and up to five mobile 
devices like iPad, Android and Windows tablets.
• 1TB of storage on OneDrive you can use to store and share all your 
documents across all your devices.
• Office Online for in-browser editing, collaboration and co-authoring
Feel free to cheer.
*Hebrew and Arabic languages available mid-March, self-sign up not 
available in China.

-- 
      David Goldfield,
Assistive Technology specialist

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