Microsoft 365 A3 for students use benefit

Advanced identity and access management: Conditional Access, group-based access management, and self-service password reset with on-premises write-back.

Enforce sign-in rules (require MFA, block legacy auth, require a compliant device, restrict by location) based on user, app, and risk signals.

Requires a second sign-in verification step (phone call, SMS, or app notification) in addition to a password.

Advanced identity and access management: Conditional Access, group-based access management, and self-service password reset with on-premises write-back.

Let users reset or unlock their own account without a help desk call. Basic cloud-only SSPR is available broadly; on-premises writeback (syncing the reset back to Active Directory) requires Entra ID P1.

Cloud-based mobile device and application management — enroll, configure, and enforce compliance policies on company and personal devices.

Enroll, configure, and manage Windows, iOS, Android, and macOS devices: compliance policies, app deployment, and remote wipe.

Cloud-based mobile device and application management — enroll, configure, and enforce compliance policies on company and personal devices.

Provision and configure new Windows devices out of the box, straight from the cloud, with no imaging. Autopilot itself has no separate license line item — it’s an Intune-dependent deployment workflow, mapped here to Intune Plan 1 as the plan that actually enables managing the enrolled device afterward.

Cloud-based mobile device and application management — enroll, configure, and enforce compliance policies on company and personal devices.

Centrally enforce BitLocker drive encryption policy and escrow recovery keys. BitLocker itself ships with Windows Pro/Enterprise; cloud-based policy and key escrow specifically need Intune, mapped here as the enabling plan since there’s no dedicated BitLocker-management license line item.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.