Announcing: Homeschool pilot program for Office 365 Education

Anonymous
2016-11-14T21:30:25+00:00

Hi everyone,

My name is Mike Tholfsen, and I am a Principal Program Manager for Office 365 Education, here to talk about a special offer for all homeschoolers today.

On November 14, 2016, we started a pilot program to make Office 365 Education available to homeschoolers across the United States.  This is a limited-time pilot to help us collect feedback and learn more on  how key education tools like Class Notebook, Forms, and Microsoft Classroom can work better and empower home educators and homeschoolers in the comfort of their own home.

Due to overwhelming demand of the pilot, we have already fillled up our inital set of spots.  We are trying to open up a few more in the coming weeks, but for now the pilot is closed.

If you’re already trying out the pilot and need help, we’ll be answering your questions right here, so please read on and post your inquires below.

How do I apply for the program?

To apply and learn more about the pilot program, visit Homeschool pilot program for Office 365 Education.  

Am I eligible to apply?

Learn more on eligibility and how to apply by visiting Eligibility for the Office 365 Homeschool pilot program.

Is there any device requirement?

No, we are piloting this program across devices.

How do I get started with the pilot program?

To get started, we recommend you read Get started with the homeschool pilot program for Office 365 Education.

Thank you for your interest, we look forward to hearing from you.

Best,

Mike

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-06-21T00:04:39+00:00

    First of all thank you for the pilot program

    OneNote Class Notebooks are used on a daily basis by 4 of our kid's.

    We have found using One Note to be a huge time saver especially when it comes to putting together lesson plans.

    Forms is particularly useful in terms of assessing what the children are learning from each lesson.

    After going through the results i can quickly get an understanding of the learning stage each of the  children are at and concentrate more on where the need help.

    We have only recently joined the Microsoft Educator Community and started to use Skype in the Classroom as part of our curriculum and we have recently took the next step and joined the Microsoft School Program.

    We are now having license issues with Minecraft Education Edition and receiving no reply's from the support team through the following https://education.minecraft.net/support/contact-us/get-in-touch/ even after multiple attempts. 

    Can someone here help us please.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-06-21T20:53:55+00:00

    To avoid confusion & duplication of effort, please post any/all further follow-up in replies to your own, new thread => https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_o365edu-mso_learn/home-school-pilot-program/12e5e155-bf45-4c0e-bc9e-8e6c2d5c1cb1

    Thank you.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-08-08T14:27:13+00:00

    Hi Mike, 

    We were accepted into the homeschool pilot program, but didn't get it setup right away.  Our link no longer works.  Is there a way to get it resent?

    Thank you, 

    Jennifer

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-09-12T23:33:56+00:00

    I am already signed up for the pilot program.  Thank you so much for offering this to homeschoolers.  I would like to be able to download Office to my desktop.  What do I need to do in order to do this? I understand this is not part of what is offered, but wondered if there was a way to do it at an additional charge and what that would be.

    Thank you!

    Tatia Veltkamp

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-01-04T14:12:48+00:00

    I signed up for this offer and it was working fine. My laptop died and I had to get a new one. Is it possible to reinstall on my new laptop?

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