Microsoft Teams for education is a powerful communication app for schools that enhances collaboration and learning. It integrates everyone and everything in one place, and it’s free for students and teachers of all grade levels with a valid email address.
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Collaborate seamlessly
Microsoft Teams for schools makes it easy for educators to set up virtual classrooms, keep assignments organised, and collaborate on Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files in real-time.
Support inclusivity
Supplement your in-classroom activities with personalised tools designed to accommodate the diverse learning styles of every student, from primary school through university.
Communicate securely
Reach out to students, staff, parents, and guardians in a secure digital environment—including video conferencing and supervised messaging for students.
Connect, collaborate, and educate,
all in one place
Encourage independent learning
Access personalised tools that allow students to practice and learn on their own–with help from our AI-assisted digital learning coaches and built-in progress trackers.
- Build literacy confidence with Reading Progress
- Improve public speaking skills with Presenter Coach
- Sharpen professional expertise with Career Coach
- Track each student’s progress with Education Insights
Develop social skills
Support students’ emotional and social well-being and provide a safe space to navigate feelings with age-appropriate activities that promote social-emotional learning (SEL).
- Check in on students’ emotional states with Reflect
- Bring emotions to life with the Feelings Monster
- Have fun with ready-to-play social-emotional learning (SEL) games in Kahoot!
Go beyond the classroom
Use Microsoft Teams for education to bridge the gap between educational and professional environments with hands-on learning tools that help students succeed in the classroom and beyond.
- Submit, save, and extract information from handwritten notes and assignments with Office Lens
- Divide students into smaller breakout rooms for ice breakers, exam prep, discussions, or group work
- Use the Assignments and Grades feature to assign tasks, quiz students, use grading rubrics, and track individual and class-wide achievements over time
Address learning barriers
Implement proven techniques that make the educational experience more accessible and inclusive for all students regardless of their age, language, fluency, or abilities.
- Get access to sign language visibility features, text decoding solutions, and much more with Immersive Reader
- Translate lectures or lessons into a student’s language of choice with OneNote Live Captions
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Use Teams for free
Students and teachers from primary school to the collegiate level can use Teams for no cost with an eligible active school email.
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Explore a range of affordable pricing plans and get access to even more of Microsoft’s education apps, tools, and services.
Access files from anywhere
With Teams + Office 365, you can sync up all your apps, documents, and resources in one secure location.
- Co-author Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files on any device
- Get creative and visualise ideas on Whiteboard
- Search and share lesson plans and assignments with OneNote
Integrate into your LMS
Incorporate Microsoft’s suite of educational tools directly into your school’s learning management systems (LMS).
- Bring Office 365 into your workflows with OneDrive LTI
- Manage and join meetings with Teams Meetings LTI
- Sync with Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, and more
Trusted by 270k+ educational organizations
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We have a whole new tool kit with Teams that we can use to do things we’d never considered before, and that opens up possibilities for our students and for our teachers that benefit everyone.
Casey Rimmer, Director of Innovation and EdTech, Union County Public Schools
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I think that's what Teams does. It's amazing, because we think about how a conversation is carried today and how kids have conversations today.
Rob Dickson, CIO, Wichita Public Schools
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We were just starting to dabble in Teams, so when we went remote, we turned around and said everyone is using Teams. Now we have teachers saying they will never abandon Microsoft Teams. They say, ‘I cannot imagine what I did before!’ and that has been essential for finding new ways of collaboration for the students.
Jeni Long, Instructional Technologist, Eagle Mountain Saginaw Independent School District
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Make the most of Teams
Learn how to use key Teams features like Whiteboard, polling, Spotlight, and more.
Interactive demos
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Teams hub
Find resources and trainings for how to use Teams to help improve student outcomes.
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Getting started guide
Students, teachers, and parents alike can learn how to use Teams in a few simple steps.
Education support centre
Get answers to your questions, find best practices, and learn from the Microsoft Education community.
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