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The Microsoft Educator Center is moving to become the Microsoft Learn Educator Center

In May, the Microsoft Educator Center (MEC) is moving to Microsoft Learn. Current MEC users, should link their MEC accounts with Learn to keep all achievements and transcripts from MEC. Sign in to MEC and follow the instructions on the homepage to link your account. Also, stay tuned! Your achievements are coming to Microsoft Learn soon. We are still processing them to make sure everything looks good. Until then, your MEC profile will continue to have the full list of your achievements.

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Product guides

  • Teams for education

    A digital hub for collaborative classrooms that brings meetings, content, and apps together in one place.

  • Minecraft: Education Edition

    A game-based learning platform that promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving in an immersive digital environment.

  • Office 365

    Build collaborative classrooms with popular applications like Teams, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, School Data Sync and more.

  • Flipgrid

    Free and simple, social learning video platform for Pre-K to PhD educators, learners, and families.

  • OneNote

    Organize your lesson plans and course content in your own digital notebook ensuring you keep track of every assignment or a flash of inspiration.

  • PowerPoint

    Presentation application that creates a slide show of important information, charts, and images to display during a presentation.

  • Immersive Reader

    Free tool that implements proven techniques to improve reading and writing for people regardless of their age or ability.

  • Reading Progress

    Free tool designed to help students build confidence and reading fluency through personalized reading experiences built into Assignments in Microsoft Teams.

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Highlighted educator programs

  • Microsoft Learn for Educators Program

    Microsoft Learn for Educators takes the best of Microsoft Learn online learning paths and helps you to bring instructor-led training materials from Microsoft into your courses. This program provides members with access to Microsoft ready-to-teach curriculum and teaching materials aligned to industry-recognized Microsoft Certifications.

  • Microsoft Innovative Educators

    Global network of educators trained on using Microsoft tools in the classroom. Becoming an MIE is the first step on a journey of digital transformation. By successfully completing 2 hours of professional learning content, participants are awarded their MIE badge.

  • Showcase Schools

    Microsoft Showcase School program is a school transformation program and a global community of pioneer schools around the world. The program is an opportunity to engage with Microsoft and like-minded school leaders around the world to deepen and expand education transformation using Microsoft Education Transformation Framework.

  • Global Minecraft Mentor

    Minecraft Global Mentors are Minecraft Certified Teachers who have applied and been accepted to a global community of educators passionate about Minecraft in the classroom and dedicated to support others in their Minecraft journey.

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