Office 365 A3 for students
Included products
Derived from the service plans Microsoft provisions with this SKU — Microsoft publishes no product-in-bundle mapping.
What's included
Curated capability groupings first, then every remaining service plan Microsoft provisions with this SKU — together they're the complete list, nothing is hidden.
| Security |
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| Defender for Cloud Apps Office 365 Cloud App Security (Microsoft 365 apps only) A lighter-weight cloud app discovery and control capability bundled into Office 365 E5 — a subset of the standalone Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. A cloud access security broker (CASB): discovers shadow IT, and applies session/access policies across sanctioned SaaS apps. The Office 365-scoped tier only covers Microsoft 365 activity; the full product extends that policy control to third-party cloud apps. |
| Compliance |
| Litigation Hold Hosted Exchange mailboxes with a larger mailbox quota and an in-place archive, compared to Exchange Online Plan 1. Preserve all mailbox items (including permanently deleted ones) indefinitely or for a set period, so nothing can be altered or purged during a legal matter. Requires Exchange Online Plan 2 — mapped here as the enabling plan, since Litigation Hold itself has no separate license line item. |
| Sensitivity Labels Manual labeling Manual sensitivity labeling for Office documents and email to classify and protect content. Classify and protect content (encryption, watermarking, access restriction) by applying labels users pick or that get applied for them. Manual, user-applied labeling is the base tier; automatic labeling (content is scanned and labeled without user action) needs the higher tier. |
| Productivity |
| Exchange Mailbox Plan 2 Hosted Exchange mailboxes with a larger mailbox quota and an in-place archive, compared to Exchange Online Plan 1. The hosted Exchange Online mailbox itself — email, calendar, and contacts. Plan 1 is the standard tier; Plan 2 adds a larger mailbox quota and an in-place archive; Kiosk is a lighter, lower-quota tier for frontline/deskless workers. |
| Teams (core / shared channels) Chat, meetings, calling, and file collaboration in shared team and channel workspaces. Chat, meetings, calling (within the org), and file collaboration — including shared channels for cross-team and cross-org collaboration without switching tenants. |
| Desktop Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) The full desktop Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and more) with click-to-run installation and automatic updates. |
| Bookings Online appointment scheduling and calendar management for customer-facing bookings. A public-facing, self-service appointment-scheduling page synced to staff calendars — common for clinics, salons, and internal 1:1 scheduling. |
| Planner Task and project management with boards, buckets, and assignments for team-based work tracking. Kanban-style task boards for team work, integrated with Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups. |
| Power Apps / Power Automate (seeded) A seeded entitlement for building and running custom low-code business apps within Microsoft 365. The Power Apps and Power Automate usage rights included at no extra cost with most Microsoft 365/Office 365 plans — enough to build apps and flows against Microsoft 365 data. Premium connectors, per-app/per-user plans, and Dataverse capacity are separate, purchasable Power Platform licenses not covered here. |
| Viva (core) |
| Other service plans |
| Office for the Web for Education Browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, for Education-tenant plans. |
| Azure Rights Management · RMS_S_ENTERPRISE Encrypts and applies usage restrictions (view-only, no-forward, expiration) to documents and email so protection travels with the file. |
| Common Data Service · DYN365_CDS_O365_P2 The underlying Dataverse storage and data model that Power Apps, Power Automate, and other Power Platform tools are built on. |
| Common Data Service for Teams · CDS_O365_P2 |
| Education Analytics |
| Insights by MyAnalytics Personal productivity and wellbeing insights (focus time, collaboration patterns, after-hours work) delivered by email digest and a Teams add-in. |
| Microsoft Entra ID Basic for Education |
| Microsoft Forms (Plan 2) |
| Microsoft Kaizala Pro · KAIZALA_O365_P3 |
| Microsoft Search Unified search across Microsoft 365 apps and connected data sources, including third-party content via Graph connectors. |
| Microsoft StaffHub A retired scheduling and shift-management tool for frontline teams, superseded by Shifts in Microsoft Teams. |
| Microsoft Stream for Office 365 E3 Video storage, sharing, and playback for Microsoft 365 content such as Teams meeting recordings. |
| Mobile Device Management for Office 365 Basic mobile device management for Office 365 apps and data — PIN/encryption enforcement and remote wipe of company data, without a full Intune deployment. |
| Power Virtual Agents for Office 365 · POWER_VIRTUAL_AGENTS_O365_P2 A seeded entitlement for building and publishing simple chatbots without writing code. |
| Project for Office (Plan E3) Lightweight, web-based task and project tracking bundled into qualifying Microsoft 365 E3 plans. |
| School Data Sync (Plan 2) |
| SharePoint (Plan 2) for Education Team-site and file storage/collaboration with a larger per-user storage allowance than SharePoint Plan 1. |
| Skype for Business Online (Plan 2) Legacy enterprise voice, video, and instant-messaging service, superseded by Microsoft Teams. |
| Sway A web-based app for creating interactive presentations, reports, and newsletters from text, images, and video. |
| To-Do (Plan 2) Personal task management with lists, reminders, and Outlook task integration. |
| Whiteboard (Plan 2) A freeform digital canvas for real-time visual collaboration and brainstorming. |
Defender for Cloud Apps
Litigation Hold
Sensitivity Labels
Teams (core / shared channels)
Desktop Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
Bookings
Planner
Power Apps / Power Automate (seeded)
Viva (core)