Enabling Equitable Education
Unlock the Full Potential of Your Learning Environments
Microsoft Education enables better learning outcomes for students and teachers through a rich, productive, and secure platform with devices, apps, and resources to suit every need, budget, and learning style. The Microsoft Education solution promotes accessible and equitable learning environments.
Teachers and Technology: Bridging the Gaps in Digital Education
Education has always relied on tools that improve communication and collaboration. And when schools introduce the right technology, both students and educators can thrive. Read our white paper to learn more about the importance of technology to better student outcomes—and how Microsoft and low-cost Windows education devices can provide the tools to help create an equitable learning environment.
Windows 11 for Education
Empower your students, teachers, and schools to unlock their full potential with the most secure, accessible Windows for learning in the classroom and beyond.Choose which Windows is right for your school:
Windows 11 Pro
Supports high-performance workloads and apps needed for high school education, while providing access to a wide variety of cost-effective devices.Windows 11 SE
A cloud-first operating system optimized for the unique needs of K–8 education, powering devices that are easy to secure, deploy, and manage.
Inclusive Design
The built-in assistive tools across Windows 11, Microsoft 365, and Teams, offer a complete learning platform and make it easier for students to choose the tools that work best for them without standing out among their peers.
- Get high-definition videoconferencing out of the box to support learning from anywhere*
- Grant better accessibility through built-in live captions, voice typing, focus sessions, magnifier, color filters, screen narrator, and more
- Activate ease of access settings with a single click to reduce clutter and minimize distractions
- Enhance student independence with quick, one-click access to microphone controls and sharing in Teams
- Navigate with ease using a more adaptive touchscreen and added digital pen functionality
Secure and Scalable IT
Windows 11 is the most secure Windows ever:
- Hardware-based isolation, encryption, and malware protection
- Advanced chip-to-cloud security for layered protection
- Built-in threat protection helps detect and block malware with Microsoft Defender Antivirus
- Defend students from unsafe Web content and downloads with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen
- Enable single sign-on to minimize disruption with Azure Active Directory*
- Protect access and identities, control data, and lock down unsafe apps with Azure Active Directory*
- Simplify management and deployment while optimizing device performance with Intune for Education*
More Value to Advance Learning
- Gain performance on devices that are built for education
- Access a wide range of device options
- Get a seamless experience using the familiar learning apps in Microsoft 365*
- Provide devices that prepare students for their future in college and career
Personalized Practice
Reading Coach is a reading practice tool for students that automatically generates individualized exercises based on each student's specific needs. Reading Coach builds on Reading Progress by identifying the 5 words each individual student struggled with the most and presenting them again with tools to support the learner in practicing independently. Based on educator preferences, tools available to students can include text to speech, syllable breaking, and picture dictionary. These supports can be enabled and customized by the educator, who sets up the Reading Coach when a Reading Progress assignment in Teams is created.Remote Learning Is Not Ideal, but Necessary
Improve school experiences across the board:
- 77% of teachers believe technology will help them be more effective post-pandemic.*
- 71% of principals think there’s great value in digital tools, both today and in the future.*
- Over 80% of workplace malware attacks were encountered by K–12 education.*
Microsoft Education is an agile, holistic, and interoperable technology ecosystem. One unified platform of applications and learning tools lights up core education activities-including collaboration, communication, content creation, and creative and critical thinking exercises.
Creating an Inclusive Classroom
To enable students of all backgrounds and abilities to achieve their full potential, educators are increasingly incorporating the principles of inclusive design. This means creating learning experiences that provide each student with the opportunities, resources, technology, and support they need to thrive. Download our eBook to discover how to create a more inclusive educational environment in your school.
Professional Development for Modern Teachers
As a Certified Microsoft Global Training Partner, Connection’s Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) courses and professional development services for Microsoft products give educators appropriate and meaningful tools to increase the effectiveness of both teaching and learning.Simplify Deployment and Management
With Windows Autopilot, quickly transform a new device into a classroom-ready state, or reset existing devices to remove apps, settings, and personal files without physically having to touch the device.Key Features
- Easy deployment at scale: Provision school devices via the cloud and Intune for Education with school-specific configurations and applications.
- Set up devices with self-deployment mode: Windows Autopilot supports a self-deploying mode that allows a student to connect a device directly to the network via ethernet without prompting for user authentication.
- Easily execute large-scale remote reset: Quickly prepare a group of devices by remotely resetting them with Intune for Education.
Additional Resources
Save Time with Windows Autopilot
Faster deployment, simplified setup, cost savings; bring these advantages—and more—to your district with Microsoft Windows Autopilot.
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Collaboration Makes All the Difference
Microsoft Teams provides the resources you need to help teachers keep students interested and engaged. Discover the difference connecting through Teams can make.
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Rediscover Education with Hybrid Learning
Learn how you can save 216 hours per instructor, per year when you centralize learning with Microsoft in Education.
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Let’s Connect!
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