Submitted by: Vedic Cloud
From elementary schools to elite business schools, e-learning has grabbed attention of all. Educators, scholars, and students all perceive the change as positive. And government is also trying to make e-learning successful by allocating more budgets, establishing responsible governing bodies and training and development programs. When everything is right on the track, then how come IT giants sit and relax. Indeed, leveraging the cloud technology they are trying to make the most of the situation. By launching Office 365 for educational institutes, Microsoft is perhaps doing the same, but in a friendly manner, which presents a win-win strategy for all.
Office 365 Education is an ambitious cloud-based program from Microsoft that bundles all essential desktop Office applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, etc. with flexible and dynamic collaboration tools built with audio and video calling and conferencing capabilities, trusted cloud-based storage, in-house social networking (Yammer), and more. However, the most prominent feature that would interest all is the availability of all applications through the Office Web Apps. Thus, empowering users to learn, share knowledge, stay connected and entertained from anywhere using a device of their choice. Its available from Gold or Silver Certified Microsoft Network Partner members under different plans based on number of subscribers and budgets.
Currently, eligible members of educational institutes, can choose from the available 3 plans: (A) Office 365 Education A2 (Free for Students, Faculty and Staff); (B) Office 365 Education A3 (Students: ? 150.00 user/month; Faculty and staff: ? 270.00 user/month) and (C) Education A4 (Students: ? 180.00 user/month; Faculty and staff: ? 360.00 user/month). 30-day free trial is a bonus, which every plan seekers can opt for. This will help them get familiarized with the Office 365 features and benefits. Leaving behind the plan A, which is available as single device subscription, all other plans give users the privilege of getting Office 365 installed on up to 5 PCs/Windows tablets/Macs. Other benefits that are not available to subscribers of plan A include: Guaranteed 99.9% uptime, Mobile apps, advanced email archiving, eDiscovery Center tools to support compliance, and Lync-to-phone audio calling.
Educational institutes in India who have adopted e-learning much ago will find a huge relief from frequent IT maintenance tasks. The cloud hosted Office package makes all jobs that IT was managing hitherto redundant. It doesnt need any kind of installation, update, upgrade and maintenance from the users ends. They just need to sign-in and use the service in a hassle-free manner. IT downtime and e-threats that remained irritating for decades, demanding high vigil, have taken backseats. Office 365 Trust Center clearly expresses its commitments regarding data security and privacy to earn and maintain the trust of users. Microsoft Office 365 server is equipped with built-in security features offering service-level security through defense-in-depth and security hardening and operational best practices. Office 365 helps customers to meet desired compliance guidelines. Microsoft discerns the worth of privacy, and doesnt share any of the users data with any third party, nor does it make their use in any kind of advertising campaign. Financially backed guarantee of 99.9% uptime is the icing on the cake, thus users can make the most of the technology.
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