Besides the new editor, we introduce three additional features today:
- Educational license: long-awaited feature requested by students and educators.
- Prezi Reuse: share a copy of your prezis with others to use as a template.
- New learn center: multimedia lessons and a community space to share your thoughts.
See how these shiny new things work after the jump!
Educational License
In response to a growing demand, (read the open letter to the Prezi CEO, demanding a school license) we developed an educational license pack. Students and teachers can now create private prezis for free. They can have Prezi Desktop at a special price. Upon verification of student/teacher identity, Prezi EDUEnjoy is free and Prezi EDUPro comes with a special educational discount.
If you are a teacher/student and already use Prezi:
Have a Public account? – upgrade to EDUEnjoy for free.
Have an Enjoy account? – upgrade to EDUPro for free! (Enjoy and EDUPro have the same price: $59. As an Enjoy user, you need to provide your credit card data to buy EDUPro, since it’s a different product. You can start using it straight away without being charged. In accordance with our recurring payment system, you will be charged $59 when your current license expires).
Have a Pro account? – You can switch to EDUPro once your current license expires. Cancel your subscription by hitting the “Cancel” button on your settings page. You can use your current account during the remaining time of the year. Once it expires, go and sign up for EDUPro!
Prezi Reuse
This new feature allows you to offer a copy of your prezis to everyone for content remixing. If you have a Public license, the reuse option is checked by default when you create a new prezi. Of course, you can uncheck it with a click to keep your content from being accessible by others. If you have an Enjoy or Pro license, you can share your published prezis for reuse by marking the dedicated checkbox. You can find prezis offered for remix in the reuse library.
Save a copy of interesting prezis, and use them as templates for your own work!
Why will you like this?
- It’s easier to get inspired as you play around with an existing prezi, replacing texts and images as you build your version.
- Build a prezi just 10 minutes before a meeting: search for a prezi in the Reuse Library, save a copy to your own account, and replace the content.
- Don’t end the loop: offer your version for further reuse! The result will be a growing database of diverse open knowledge.
New Learn Center
When building our new learn center, we had three goals in mind:
- Collect all written and multimedia information on one page.
- Offer step-by-step, detailed lessons for authors on different experience levels about how to use Prezi. Video and prezi introductions, guides, walkthroughs, and how-tos now live in the Prezi Academy.
- You provide great feedback on our community forums, and we are happy to take this to the next level. Live From Prezi Universe is a new, dynamic section to share tips and tricks, read inspirational Prezi experiences, and get advice from professionals.
You can also check the updated Manual for further guidance. If you can’t find an answer to your questions anywhere in the Learn Center, visit our community forums for personal support!
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I am an elementary school teacher and want EACH of my students to create a prezi. I wish there was a way that I could create separate users within my EduEnjoy account. If I can’t do this, does EACH student need a separate e-mail which they then need to use to have their own account? And, can they have an EduEnjoy account too?
[...] Due to an overwhelming request for “educator” accounts, the company has responded with an enhanced account just for teachers and students. You can learn more and sign up here. [...]
Hi Bruce,
Thanks for this question! Your students can create free Enjoy accounts for themselves, the point of making this license was partly to allow every student to create private presentations for free. You cannot create separate users under one account though.
Hi,
I work in international schools and I switch locations. My educator-email address changes every few years. When I switch schools, can I re-register my new educator-email and transfer my previously created Prezis? Do I have to start all over from scratch with a new educator account?
I just upgraded my personal Prezi account to an educator account and I’m afraid of losing my work in the future.
Thanks Prezi team!
Erin
[...] Prezi, now gives FREE Education Licenses and Reusable Templates Prezi, now gives FREE Education Licenses and Reusable Templates Last week Prezi announced new free accounts for teachers and students. Judging by the tweets lots of teachers are interested in using Prezi. But as I discovered when I first learned about Prezi, the learning curve for creating presentations is pretty steep. And now there is a collection of free templates that you can use and adapt for your needs. I think I can use this tool now. I love the finished product, but before the templates, I wasn’t finding it useful. For the Templates: http://prezi.com/learn/selection-great-reusable-prezis/ Education License: http://blog.prezi.com/2010/01/24/new-release-features-educational-license-reuse-learn-center/ [...]
Hi;
I’m lecturer in a French college. In France we don’t have the edu tld.
Could we use your Educational license with a domain that doesn’t include .edu once you validate it as a domain of a university or a college?
FYI: the domain is UHA.fr
Thanks
I must have registered at some point under this e-mail and now I am trying to get the Educational version but I am getting a “this e-mail is already used” message. Can you please adjust this so that I can start using the program and exposing my Business Presentations to it – thank you.
Tatiana Kolovou
Kelley School of Business
Hi Tatiana,
If you get the “already in use” message, you likely tried to register your edu email address for the EDu license, while all you should do is to upgrade. Please log in first with your emil address, then press upgrade on the license page.
Hi Salah,
Of course you can. Just use your school domain and your matching school hosted email address to verify your identity. If you cannot succeed, please send your data to me in email to zoltan.radnai_at_prezi.com.
Hi Erin,
You are right, this is a real issue. What you can do is to register a free personal account too, and share all your prezis with your other account for editing when you switch your edu accounts. You will have to sign up for the new educational account once you have new login data.
I am a teacher but I don’t have a .edu email account. I might be able to get an email from the school but it ends with .co.th as this school is in Thailand.
Can I avail of the .edu promotion?
Thanks,
Khru
[...] New Release Features: Educational License, Reuse, Learn Center – Prezi.com Blog [...]
Sure you can. All you need is a school email adress that matches your school domain. Please send me your email address and your school website address in email to zoltan.radnai_at_prezi.com
If I try to report a problem when I am logged in to my Prezi account, the site switches to community.prezi and I am no longer logged in. It does not recognize my login. When I leave the support page, it returns me to my Prezi as logged in again. I cannot report problems or ask questions.
Hi,
The Report a Problem link redirects you to our community forum on Getsatisfaction.com. This is the site where you can open topics, ask your questions or leave your comments about Prezi. If you prefer email connection however, you can also send me an email, I would be happy to assist you answering your questions.
zoltan.radnai_at_prezi.com
http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/history/comments/prezi1/
Just to say many thanks for this wonderful response, as you can see above I have highlighted this in the review.
I am really amazed!
Can I get an EDU version as well as an university hospital associate?
THX,
Elza
Sure, all we ned is a proof of your identity. If you have a company email address that matches your educational domain, you can register.
[...] For my peeps in education, Prezi currently offers a free education package – for details click here. [...]
Hi, i have just signed up for an education account and would like my students to sign up as well. Our students at the school only have personal email accounts (yahoo, gmail, homtail. etc) how do i get them signed up?
Hi, we don’t have a dedicated feature to create aliases to students yet. I suggest to use a third party applicatio called http://epals.net/ to do that if you teach K12 students.
I created an educator account. I would like my students to create an account also. However, they can not receive email from outside of the school. They will not be able to verify their account. When I was registering it said teachers could create or register students with a bulk email. I can not find any information on this anywhere. How can I get my students to create an account?
Please try http://www.epals.com/ or a similar service to do this
Hi, I work as a systems integrator for a school board and support teachers and curriculum folks in using new technologies such as prezi to deliver course content.
I am not a teacher or a student, but can I sign-up for ‘edu-enjoy’ account in order to properly promote and support this wonderful tool?
I have a matching school district email and district web site. Do I simply sign-up with these?
Hi Chester,
Thanks for your interest in Prezi! Please send me your email address and school district domain to zoltan.radnai_at_prezi.com!
Great comment about credit repair
Üdv,
talán tudja hogy, Magyarországon nem nagyon adnak az iskolák iskolai domain neves mailcímet. Mi lesz, ha a saját mailemmel upgrade-eltem az EduEnjoy-ra?
Hi,
maybe you know, in Hungary the students haven’t got school TDL e-mail addresses everywhere. What will happen, if I have upgraded with my own e-mail to EduEnjoy?
Saját email címmel ez nem megy, mert nem fgadjael a rendszer mint oktatási email címet. Vannak olyan szolgáltatások, amelyek megoldást kínálnak erre a probláémára és lehetővé teszik az oktatási email cím generálását. Próbálja meg a http://gaggle.net/ -et, hozzon létre saját edu email címet.
Hello, I’m a Japanese highschool student, and no, I don’t have an educational e-mail address. How should I register?
I do think the e-mail system is ok, but I suggest making it possible to register with your ISIC number ^^? just a thought.
As someone who is both a student and a public speaking addict, this is the greatest news I’ve seen in a long time. Prezi is the premiere tool for making totally awesome presentations, and now I can use it more for less. When someone like myself gets to a position where they can spend money on your product, you can bet loyalty like this will be considered in the budget =)
J
I would like to say “wow” what a inspiring post. This is really a great article. Keep doing!!
Hi, you can also use Gaggle.net to create a free educational license that we accept. Could you tell us a litte more about ISIC?
http://prezi.com/learn/how-get-edu-email-address/
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I would like my students (aged 12-15) to be able to sign up for an account. Do you still have the condition that prezi is only available to 18 year olds and over? My educational authority will not allow us to involve our students in this wonderful learning tool if this is still the case. Thank you!
Hi, yes prezi is 18+ legally. Please read our terms of use for more. http://prezi.com/terms-of-use/
Does the Education License apply to instruction in public libraries either for the public or for staff? Also, does it apply to outreach presentations, for example to employment centers. schools, small business development centers during which the free tools of the public library are demonstrated or talked about?
Thank you for your help with this.
Education licence can be registered by teachers and students who have an educational email address that goes with the same domain as their school website. EG: Joe@myschool.edu.com and Myschool.com
I see. Still the edu license goes only for teachers and students who can confirm that they work in the field.
Earlier I wrote a bit more about ISIC, but it was apparently moderated. I wonder why “Free Best Buy Gift Card” wasn’t moderated. -_-
Anyway, information about the ISIC card can be obtained at http://www.isic.org
Several companies, including microsoft, offer special services for ISIC card holders (software for free, etc).
The main function of the card, however, is that you can be eligible for student discounts all over the world.
The site claims that there are “4.5 million card holders”, and I think it might be a great way to get Prezi known to students around the globe
I have a middle-school and an elementary-school student who i would love to get involved with the educational version of Prezi. Is this possible? They aren’t issued email addresses by our public school
Hi, you can create educational email addresses with gaggle.net. We accept Gaggle email addresses. About legal considerations please email copyright_at_prezi.com.