Microsoft Office 365 Education e Copilot

Microsoft Office 365 Education and Copilot is Microsoft's 365 suite for schools, with the addition of Copilot AI built into the apps. It includes Teams (collaboration and hybrid teaching), Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote), Outlook (institutional mail), OneDrive (cloud storage), Forms, Stream, Sway, Whiteboard and Class Notebook.

Unlike Google Workspace, Microsoft's ecosystem excels where schools already have a strong Windows desktop infrastructure, where Active Directory integration is a requirement, and where vocational programmes use the Office suite as a primary working tool (e.g. administration, finance, marketing, tertiary ITS).

Teams is the heart of the workflow: in a single app you manage video lessons, chats with classes and groups, file sharing, assignment delivery and grading via Class Notebook, and integration with every other Microsoft app. Education-specific features (lesson recording, digital whiteboards, grading, breakout rooms, Immersive Reader) make it comparable with Google Classroom.

Immersive Reader is an extraordinarily powerful accessibility feature for SpLD, SEN and foreign-language students: it reads texts aloud, translates into 60+ languages, highlights grammar categories and shows images per word. It is built into Word, OneNote, Teams and Edge and works with zero configuration.

Copilot is Microsoft's AI (powered by OpenAI's GPT-4) integrated into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams. It generates documents, summaries, presentations, formulae and meeting recaps. The Education edition handles data with GDPR-compliant, enterprise-grade privacy.

Kyron, as a Microsoft Education Partner, provides tenant setup, migration from other suites, Microsoft Certified Educator training and ongoing support.