Unlock creativity in each student

• Spark creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving with immersive and engaging apps.
• Enhance independence for students of all abilities with intelligent tools.
• Bring ideas to life in 3D and data visualization tools.

Promote teamwork

• Collaborate and save educators time with a single hub for classes and teams.
  Easily connect with others and co-author in real time.
• Meet the needs of individual students with a universal toolkit to connect, share and communicate in class and out.

Provide a simple and safe experience

• Manage users, data, and devices with a single dashboard.
• Protect identity, apps, data, and devices with intelligent security enhanced by machine learning.
• Manage data archiving, governance, and discovery.

There is also a fundamental change to counting staff.  FTEs are no longer counted/taken into consideration.  The number of hours a person works is no longer taken into consideration.  The new licensing measurement for the M365 plans are Education Qualified Users (EQUs).

An Education Qualified User is:

Education Qualified User means an employee or contractor (except Students) who accesses or uses an Education Platform Product for the benefit of the Institution

Education Platform Product = Office 365 Pro Plus/A3/A5 and/or Windows A3/A5 and/or EM&S E3/E5 or M365 A3/A5

Components of Office 365 A3/A5 or EM&S E3/E5 are not Education Platform Products (except Office 365 Pro Plus)

What is the definition of ‘Qualified Device’ in the agreement?

A ‘Qualified Device’ is defined as:

“Any device that is used by or for the benefit of the organisation or by or for the benefit of students enrolled in the organisation and is:

• A personal desktop computer, portable computer, workstation or similar device capable of running Windows Pro locally (in a physical or virtual operating system environment)OR

   

• A device used to access a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)”

What about customers with part-time or full-time employees who don’t use a computer every day and/or only use it for short tasks like sharing files or checking email; do they have to be covered as a full user now?

These users who do not qualify as Education Qualified Users (EQUs) may utilise a £0 SKU that provides access to Office 365 A1, which includes Office Online (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote), OneDrive storage, Yammer, and SharePoint sites, plus additional classroom tools. These users can also use Outlook Web Access to check email from any device with internet access:

You can also email us at [email protected] or call 01904 562200 – whatever works best for you.