Microsoft 365 Education Plan
The Microsoft 365 A5 license gives UConn faculty, staff, and students access to a multitude of features that assist the UConn community in collaborating and working remotely. Several important features of the A5 license have been listed below.
For a full comparison between the different Office 365 licensing packages, view Microsoft's in-depth comparison.
Features and Benefits
Large Mailbox Size: With the A5 license, the primary mailbox has a limit of 100GB.
Email Protection: A5 licensing provides up-to-date automatic protection to reduce the number of malicious phishing and spam emails that are received.
Teams Dial-in Numbers (Faculty and Staff only): When faculty and staff members create meetings in Teams, a phone number will be included in the invitation email. Any recipient, internal or external, may call this number to join the meeting through a phone call to hear and speak to the meeting.
Apps Available
Microsoft 365
The Microsoft 365 desktop apps, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Microsoft Teams are included with the A5 license. These applications can be installed on up to five devices and you can access them at any time through the s.uconn.edu/365 website without installing software.
Microsoft Clipchamp
Microsoft Clipchamp (formerly “Stream”) is a Teams-compatible video sharing service that enables a team to upload, edit, and share videos securely. Clipchamp supports live streaming and encourages collaboration through comments, tagging, and point-in-time video references. Microsoft Clipchamp also helps you organize content into channels and groups so that it is easier to find.
Power BI Pro
The Power BI service is a cloud-based business analytics service that allows you to visualize and analyze data. Using the Power BI dashboard, you are able to view interactive reports and visualizations. Power BI Pro allows you to publish content to workspaces, share dashboards, and subscribe to other dashboards and reports.
Microsoft Bookings
Microsoft Bookings allows users to schedule meetings with you for certain tasks based on your availability without publicly exposing your calendar. Customize appointment details, booking requirements, and specify staff members to streamline the booking experience.
OneDrive
Microsoft OneDrive is a cloud file storage service. You can save files, share them with both internal and external users, and edit the files simultaneously.
SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint is a cloud storage service for departments and groups to hold shared data. SharePoint differs from OneDrive by creating a space for group data that is meant to be accessed by others upon creation and is not tied to any single individuals.
Microsoft Planner
Microsoft Planner is a task management app that allows teams to create project plans. These tasks can be created by, and assigned to, all team members. Planner provides a collaborative space to manage workload and keep track of each member's responsibilities on projects and important jobs.
Microsoft To Do
Microsoft To Do is similar to Planner but focuses on your individual tasks.
MyAnalytics
MyAnalytics is a service that provides insight into how workers spend their time in order to optimize tasks and to help them work more efficiently. A weekly report is sent to the user with an overview of how their time was spent, and they can see the data collected by accessing their dashboard.
Microsoft Forms
Microsoft Forms is a lightweight app to create surveys, quizzes, and polls. These can be used to collect feedback, measure student or employee satisfaction, or as a classroom activity. Once created, these forms are shareable with users inside or outside of UConn. Microsoft Forms are created and filled out in a web browser.
Power Automate
Power Automate is a service that allows you to create automated workflows between your Microsoft applications without having any programming knowledge. For repetitive tasks, you can create an automated flow that performs on a schedule. Automated flows can also be triggered by an event.
Sway
Sway (formerly “Flow”) makes it easy to create and share interactive reports, personal stories, presentations, and more. Once you create a Sway, they are shareable with other UConn users, who can then access your creation online.
Delve
Use Delve to discover and organize important information across your Microsoft 365 applications in one central location. In Delve, you can create boards to pin important documents so that you can quickly access them. Delve also allows you to collaborate with others by showing you the documents your coworkers are working on.
OneNote Class Notebook
The OneNote Class Notebook helps faculty set up a OneNote for their class by offering a centralized Class notebook with three types of sub-notebooks. Each student is given a private notebook only viewable by them and the teacher. A notebook is available for the teacher to share course materials with students, which have read-only access. A notebook is available where both the students and the teacher can edit.