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As schools prepare for the start of another school year and teachers get their classrooms ready to welcome students, we are introducing additional features to meet the needs of schools, teachers and students.
Today we are announcing changes to Office 365 Education that will make it easier for schools to meet their security and compliance needs at a time when teaching and learning are becoming increasingly collaborative and cloud-connected.
With today’s update we simplified our education lineup, moving to a single, free plan for all academic institutions and added several new features to help schools meet their security and compliance requirements.
In addition to the basic services—Office Online, 1TB of OneDrive storage, Exchange email and Skype—free Office 365 Education now includes advanced features such as:
- Legal hold and eDiscovery to help you find, preserve, analyze and package electronic content for a legal request or investigation. This capability spans across email, documents and instant messaging.
- Rights Management Services, which prevents file-level access without the right user credentials.
- Data Loss Prevention to help you identify, monitor and protect sensitive information in your organization.
For a more complete list of features visit the Office 365 Education offer page.
With these additional features, now included at no cost for Office 365 Education, schools can more easily maintain a safe, effective and compliant learning environment while providing world-class productivity tools for their teachers and students.
If you already have Office 365 Education, there’s nothing for you to do. These new features will simply show up as they become available.
School admins, if you’re not yet providing Office 365 Education to your entire school, sign up for free at office.com/education.
Source: https://blogs.office.com/2015/09/02/new-school-year-brings-new-security-features-to-office-365-education/
