Planner Plan 1 for Education — Pricing, Plans & What's Included

Planner Plan 1 for Education is a standalone, per-user work and project management subscription for Microsoft-verified education tenants. The September 2026 Education price list added separate Planner Plan 1 for faculty and Planner Plan 1 for students SKUs, so schools can license Planner Plan 1 at Education pricing without buying a broader Microsoft 365 bundle. Before September 2026 the CSP price list carried Planner Plan 1 only in the Commercial and Government segments.

Buy Planner Plan 1 for faculty for faculty and staff, and Planner Plan 1 for students for enrolled students. Microsoft's Product Terms define a Student as any individual enrolled in an educational institution within the institution's organization, full-time or part-time, and define the education-qualified user population as employees and contractors other than students — that is who the Faculty SKU covers. The SKUs are not interchangeable: do not put staff on Student-priced licenses.

Yes. The Education catalog lists the Faculty and Student options separately for the same product, and a verified education tenant can hold both. The control that matters is assignment: Faculty licenses go to faculty and staff, Student licenses to enrolled students.

The tenant must be a Qualified Education User that Microsoft has verified. Microsoft verifies every education customer tenant created in CSP: the partner records the institution's legal name, address, website, segment (K-12 or Higher Education), and contact details in Partner Center, and where Microsoft asks for documents it wants an accreditation certificate or governing-body document, or a letter from the department, ministry, or board of education. Some tenants clear automatically; if Microsoft takes one to further review, Partner Center guidance says that typically takes three business days or fewer, and verification can be requested up to three times per customer. Verification is per tenant — an already-verified education tenant does not repeat it for each order.

No. Education qualification is a property of the tenant, not of the individual order, so a tenant that already buys A-series or other Education SKUs through CSP is already verified. When IT Partner takes on an existing education tenant, we check its education qualification status in Partner Center before quoting Education SKUs, and we run the verification with you if the tenant has never been qualified.

Both the Faculty and Student SKUs are listed with a monthly commitment billed monthly, an annual commitment paid upfront, and an annual commitment paid monthly, because those are the Education options in the September catalog. No three-year commitment option is listed for the Education SKUs.

Annual commitment paid upfront is the lowest listed per-seat option in the catalog, while annual paid monthly runs higher and monthly commitment is the most flexible. Choose annual options when seats will stay assigned for the full term, and monthly commitment when seat needs may change during the school year.

No trial SKU is listed in the Education catalog for Planner Plan 1; the trial listed for this product is a Commercial-segment SKU. If your institution needs to evaluate Planner Plan 1 before buying, ask IT Partner to confirm the currently available evaluation paths for education tenants.

Each assigned eligible user receives one per-user Planner Plan 1 subscription, because the offer is licensed per user rather than per device or per institution. The source pack confirms the licensing and purchase options, but it does not confirm the detailed Planner feature matrix, so verify current Microsoft documentation before relying on specific views, scheduling, dependency, or field capabilities.

Do not assume Planner Plan 1 includes the Microsoft Project desktop app, because the source pack does not confirm desktop Project entitlement for this SKU. If desktop project scheduling is required, IT Partner should validate the current Microsoft Planner and Project plan comparison before the order is placed.

Planner Plan 1 should not be assumed to include enterprise portfolio management or resource management, because those capabilities are not confirmed in the source pack. If your institution needs portfolio governance, resource capacity planning, or advanced project controls, review the current Microsoft plan matrix, including higher Planner and Project plans, before choosing this plan.

Planner Plan 1 should not be treated as a Teams or Microsoft 365 suite license, because the source pack only confirms the Planner Plan 1 subscription and does not list Teams or suite services as included entitlements. If users plan to access Planner through Teams or depend on Microsoft 365 group services, confirm the tenant's existing A-series or other Microsoft 365 licensing before deployment.

No Copilot entitlement is confirmed for Planner Plan 1 in the source pack, because the listed SKU information only covers the Planner Plan 1 subscription and purchase options. If Copilot-related project or task features are required, confirm the separate Copilot licensing, eligibility, and Microsoft 365 prerequisites before buying.

Seats can generally be added when more users need access, because Planner Plan 1 is licensed per user. Seat reductions and cancellations depend on the selected commitment, billing option, renewal date, and CSP cancellation rules, so confirm change rules before choosing monthly or annual commitment, especially around semester boundaries.

Monthly commitment is the most flexible option, because it renews on a shorter commitment cycle. Annual commitment usually provides a lower per-seat structure but can limit midterm cancellation or seat reduction, whether paid upfront or paid monthly, so review renewal and cancellation timing before ordering.

No, this page is for the Education offering, because Government is a separate segment with its own Planner Plan 1 listing. Public-sector institutions or government-affiliated schools that require GCC, GCC High, DoD, or specific residency commitments should confirm the correct segment and cloud environment before quoting.

Do not assume Charity and Education programs are interchangeable, because each has separate Microsoft eligibility rules and catalogs, and no Charity listing is shown for Planner Plan 1 in the source pack. A nonprofit education institution should confirm which program it qualifies for before purchase.

A CSP transfer to IT Partner is typically designed to change purchasing and partner management without reprovisioning the Microsoft tenant, because the institution's users, data, and tenant identity remain with Microsoft. To avoid service interruption, the transfer should be coordinated so licenses remain active and no renewal or cancellation window is missed.