Back to school in 2020 with ONLYOFFICE

Useful tips, free apps and more

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3 min readAug 26, 2020

It’s just about time for schools, universities, students and communities to start prepping for a new school year. Have a look at what ONLYOFFICE has to offer for e-learning of all sorts, whether you are set to go offline or keep staying remote.

Free desktop applications

It’s never too late to ditch proprietary offices and go open source. If you are looking for a free and open alternative to MS Office to edit text documents, spreadsheets and presentations while staying fully compatible with the formats and having similar interface experience, getting ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors is a move for you.

On top of that, you can connect the suite to your online environment — ONLYOFFICE cloud, Nextcloud, ownCloud — and collaborate in real time right from the desktop.

Free virtual classroom

ONLYOFFICE is a fully GDPR-compliant online office for organizations of any size, offering a full-stack set of productivity, planning and communication instruments in addition to collaborative online office suite.

As a cloud service, it’s absolutely free for schools, and is offered with 50% discount for higher education. For organizations which have private infrastructure it’s possible to run ONLYOFFICE on-premises with up to 70% discount.

Online editors for Sync&Share environments

Looking for a collaborative suite to use in your Sync&Share? ONLYOFFICE editors can be integrated with HumHub, OpenOlat, ownCloud, Pydio, Liferay, Alfresco, eXo Platform, Plone, and other services to enable collaborative editing functionality with up to 70% discount for educational organizations.

See full list of ONLYOFFICE integration apps

Online editors for e-learning platforms

ONLYOFFICE online editors can be used within a number of learning management systems such as Moodle, OpenOlat, HumHub, Chamilo and more. Read our blog article about integrating ONLYOFFICE in yours, or start right away.

Free mobile office applications

Work with you docs from anywhere at anytime, from the canteen on your morning commute, using a phone or a tablet. Free mobile editors are available for iOS and Android devices, designed for both offline work and cloud document editing and even collaboration.

ONLYOFFICE mobile Projects app for iOS gives quick access to tasks and planning, project discussions and documents. Explore this neat companion to your cloud projects free of charge.

Useful tips for educators

How to work with docs in ONLYOFFICE

How to use ONLYOFFICE productivity apps at school

How schoolkids can use ONLYOFFICE in theirs studies.

ONLYOFFICE for integration: tools and offers for higher education

Useful tips for students

Tips: how to make learning as effective as possible

How to get self-hosted editors for free

How students can contribute to ONLYOFFICE

Get inspired

We are proud of having many success stories in educational sector. Read about how universities use ONLYOFFICE around the world:

ONLYOFFICE team wishes you a successful kick-off to the new academic year! Feel free to ask us anything in the comments below or tweet us at @only_office.