Microsoft 365 A3 for Faculty
Microsoft 365 Education
String ID M365EDU_A3_FACULTY
GUID 4b590615-0888-425a-a965-b3bf7789848d
Capabilities
30
Underlying services
46
Audience
Education
Type
Suite
What this plan gives you 30 capabilities
Email & collaboration
- Bookings Online appointment scheduling.
- Email & calendar Exchange Online mailboxes, calendar and contacts.
- Planner & To-Do Task and team work management.
- Stream (video) Enterprise video hosting.
- Sway Interactive reports and presentations.
- Teams (chat & meetings) Microsoft Teams chat, meetings and channels.
- Viva Engage (Yammer) Enterprise social / communities.
- Whiteboard Collaborative digital canvas.
Files & content
- Microsoft Search Unified enterprise search.
- Office for the web Word, Excel and PowerPoint in the browser.
- SharePoint & OneDrive Intranet, team sites and personal file storage.
- Universal Print Cloud print management.
Office apps
- Office desktop & mobile apps Installed Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.
- Project Project planning and portfolio management.
Identity & access
- Entra ID P1 (Conditional Access, SSO) Conditional access, self-service, SSO.
- Multi-factor authentication Standalone Azure MFA.
Devices & management
- Basic Mobile Device Management Lightweight MDM built into Office 365.
- Intune (full device management) Full MDM/MAM for PCs and mobile.
- Windows Update / Autopatch Managed Windows update deployment.
Threat protection
- Cloud App Security for Office 365 App discovery scoped to Office 365.
- Defender for Cloud Apps Cloud access security broker (CASB).
Information protection & compliance
- Information barriers Restrict communication between groups.
- Information protection & encryption Rights management, AIP labels, message encryption.
- Sensitivity labels & classification Auto-labelling and data classification.
Analytics & automation
- Copilot Studio / Virtual Agents Build chatbots and agents.
- Dataverse Common Data Service data platform.
- Power Apps (seeded) Low-code business apps (Office 365 use rights).
- Power Automate (seeded) Workflow automation (Office 365 use rights).
- Viva Insights Productivity and wellbeing analytics.
- Viva Learning Learning content in Teams.