The Microsoft Education Desktop
Inspiring and connecting you and your students
The Microsoft education desktop provides a powerful yet intuitive solution for educators,
helping them to spend more time facilitating effective learning environments and
less time on administrative tasks. At the same time, using the Microsoft education
desktop can help to ensure a secure, manageable, and cost-effective learning environment,
satisfying IT’s demand for quality and ease of management and administration’s need
for demonstrated value.
The Microsoft education desktop also helps educators improve student engagement
and outcomes through integrated and intuitive content creation tools, like image
and video editing in PowerPoint, scalable learning tools like Mouse Mischief™ and
Ribbon Hero, and authentic assessment solutions via OneNote and the native inking
capabilities built into Windows® 7.
Educators can easily share digital lesson plans and notebooks with peers and students
via OneNote, collaborate in real time from a variety of devices and locations using
Microsoft Lyncand Office Web Apps, and make it easy for local community members
to actively participate in every child’s education.
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 Microsoft
Lync 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.
The Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 suite contains the following applications:
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Word 2010
Transform your ideas into professional-looking documents.
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Excel 2010
Achieve valuable insights with powerful analysis tools.
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PowerPoint 2010
Turn your ideas into impactful presentations.
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OneNote 2010
Collect your information in one easy-to-find place.
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Outlook 2010 with Business Contact Manager
All of the benefits of Outlook 2010, plus powerful customer and contact management.
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Publisher 2010
Create professional-quality publications and marketing materials.
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Access 2010
Track and report important information with easy-to-use database tools.
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InfoPath 2010
Quickly collect the information your business needs with easy-to-create forms.
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SharePoint Workspace 2010
Stay productive with the freedom to take shared content with you while on the go.
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Communicator 2007 R2
Be more productive by communicating and collaborating easily with others in different
locations.
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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 enrolments change and providing for the central management of
user policies and software access.
Click on the Microsoft Licensing tab to learn how to
purchase Microsoft education technologies for your school through Enrolment for
Education Solutions (EES).