This app is designed to provide academical institutions and their students and employees with access to professional developing tools, sowftware and services from Microsoft. It provides broad variety of tools, app development and testing which leads to better support in teaching and learning in IT area and software development. It allows students and employees to gain practical skills in moder technilogy and get ready for IT industry job opportunities.

Notice: Azure Dev Tools for Teaching app is primarly intended for educational purposes (learning, school projects, personal experimenting and development). Microsoft offers this app to students and employees with the intention of providing them with space for learning and working with cloud technologies and tools, mostly without the need of adding credit card details. The membership is available for one year and it can be extended by repeated membership renewal.

Main benefits of this offer:

1. Free credit – you will receive free credit which you can use to access selected Azure services.

2. No credit card needed – if you meet the conditions for activation, you do not need to use your credit card.

3. Access to developer tools and environment – for example GitHub Student Developer Pack, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio Community, Windows system Education edition, Widnows Server etc.

4. Support for education and projects – with Azure for Students you can go through with school projects and skill development simple and easy, with low to none expenditure.

If you aquire Azure Dev Tolls for Teaching licence you can find the activation process here. Please be informed this licence is available on demand and needs to be approved by the faculty/unit management.