To be eligible to receive Office 365 for free you must be a full-time or part-time faculty or staff member or student at an academic institution and: The service includes Office Online (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote), unlimited OneDrive storage, Yammer, and SharePoint sites How Do I Know if I am Eligible? It’s available for free to teachers who are currently working at an academic institution and to students who are currently attending an academic institution. Office 365 for Education is a collection of services that allow you to collaborate and share your schoolwork. This is not a trial, it is the real deal and includes programs such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and now Microsoft Teams, plus many more additional classroom tools.

Microsoft has announced that Teachers and Students are eligible to receive Office 365 for free when it is being used for educational purposes and practices.