As more students use Office to do their homework and e-mail their assignments to instructors, the age-old excuse, Many students also use the Outlook® messaging and collaboration client to keep track of their homework assignments and friends’ contact information as well as keep in touch with their classmates via e-mail and instant messaging. Individual and group projects extend outside the classroom, making it important that the tools students use at school are also available at home. Class presentations using the PowerPoint® presentation graphics program, book reports written with Word and science projects tracked in Excel are now common at all grade levels. Microsoft Office has become an extremely popular learning tool in schools. “A goal that NSBA shares with Microsoft is making tools like this more easily obtainable for all children.” Said Anne Bryant, executive director of the National School Boards Association. But learning does not stop once the school day ends, so it’s important that parents and their kids also have knowledge of and access to these tools to best support seamless learning after school,” “More and more, schools are making large investments in technology and incorporating many software programs into the curricula. This noncommercial, educational-use only offer is designed to make it easier for students and teachers to have at-home access to one of today’s leading learning and communication products, creating a seamless transition between classroom work and homework.
25, 2001, students and teachers of K-12 and higher-education institutions will be able to purchase the new Microsoft® Office XP Standard for Students and Teachers in select retail stores for a special price of $149* (U.S.) – almost 70 percent off the regular Office XP Standard price. today announced a special offer designed to make it easier for students and teachers to acquire one of today’s leading educational tools for use outside the classroom. 3, 2001 - In its ongoing commitment to help students realize their full potential, Microsoft Corp.
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