Microsoft 365 A5 for faculty
Microsoft 365 Education
Product GUID (skuId) e97c048c-37a4-45fb-ab50-922fbf07a370
Capabilities
57
Underlying services
87
Audience
Education
Type
Suite
What this plan gives you 57 capabilities
Email & collaboration
- Bookings Online appointment scheduling.
- Clipchamp (video editor) Video creation and editing.
- Email & calendar Exchange Online mailboxes, calendar and contacts.
- Forms Surveys, quizzes and polls.
- Kaizala Mobile messaging for frontline and large groups.
- Microsoft Loop Co-authored workspaces and components.
- Planner & To-Do Task and team work management.
- Skype for Business (legacy) Legacy Skype for Business Online, superseded by Teams.
- Stream (video) Enterprise video hosting.
- Sway Interactive reports and presentations.
- Teams (chat & meetings) Microsoft Teams chat, meetings and channels.
- Viva Engage (Yammer) Enterprise social network and communities.
- Whiteboard Collaborative digital canvas.
Files & content
- Microsoft Search Unified enterprise search across your content.
- Office for the web Word, Excel and PowerPoint in the browser.
- SharePoint & OneDrive Intranet, team sites and personal file storage.
- Universal Print Cloud print management.
Meetings & voice
- Audio conferencing Dial-in numbers for Teams meetings.
- Teams Phone (PBX) Cloud phone system / calling in Teams.
Office apps
- Excel advanced analytics Premium data and modelling features in Excel.
- Office desktop & mobile apps Installed Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
- Project Project planning and portfolio management.
Identity & access
- Entra ID P1 (Conditional Access, SSO) Conditional access, self-service and single sign-on.
- Entra ID P2 (Identity Protection, PIM) Risk-based access and privileged identity management.
- Multi-factor authentication Standalone Azure MFA.
Devices & management
- Basic Mobile Device Management Lightweight MDM built into Office 365.
- Intune (full device management) Full device and app management (MDM/MAM) for PCs and mobile.
- Microsoft 365 Lighthouse Multi-tenant management for partners.
- Windows Enterprise Windows 10/11 Enterprise edition and virtualization rights.
- Windows Update / Autopatch Managed Windows update deployment.
Threat protection
- Cloud App Security for Office 365 App discovery scoped to Office 365.
- Defender for Cloud Apps Cloud access security broker (CASB).
- Defender for Endpoint (Plan 2) Full endpoint detection and response (EDR).
- Defender for Identity On-prem identity threat detection.
- Defender for Office 365 (Plan 1) Safe Links / Safe Attachments for email and files.
- Defender for Office 365 (Plan 2) Anti-phishing plus threat hunting and automation.
- Microsoft 365 Defender (XDR) Unified incidents portal across Defender products.
Information protection & compliance
- Advanced auditing Long-term, high-value audit events.
- Communication compliance Detect policy violations in messages.
- Customer Key Bring-your-own encryption keys.
- Customer Lockbox Approve Microsoft support access to your data.
- Data loss prevention (DLP) Prevent oversharing of sensitive information.
- eDiscovery & investigations Legal hold, review, analytics and data investigations.
- Information barriers Restrict communication between groups.
- Information protection & encryption Rights management, sensitivity encryption and message encryption.
- Insider risk management Identify risky internal activity.
- Privileged access management Just-in-time, task-level access approval.
- Records & information governance Retention and records management.
- Sensitivity labels & classification Auto-labelling and data classification.
Analytics & automation
- Copilot Studio / Virtual Agents Build chatbots and agents.
- Dataverse The data platform behind Power Platform.
- Power Apps (seeded) Low-code business apps (Office 365 use rights).
- Power Automate (seeded) Workflow automation (Office 365 use rights).
- Power BI Self-service business analytics and dashboards.
- Viva Insights Productivity and wellbeing analytics.
- Viva Learning Learning content in Teams.
AI
- Copilot chat (data protection) Enterprise-protected AI chat.