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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Excellent news – and thank you for both listening to your end-users and responding with a sensible pricing structure for educational establishments. I couldn’t ask for more
Thank you for taking requests from teachers and creating the educational option for students. I think Prezi has some really great possibilities for young writers, as much as presenters, and I hope teachers can integrate it into their schools.
Kevin Hodgson
Sixth Grade Teacher
When I mentioned the old price structure during curriculum meetings with my faculty colleagues, discussions came to a halt. No amount of cajoling on my part got us past the cost. I can now renew those talks. I want to add my “thanks” to those already on this page (and to the other “thanks” from educators that will surely follow as the news spreads). I’m also impressed with the thoughtful changes in the new Prezi editor. If I didn’t have so much other work to do today I could give the editor a whirl; that will have to wait.
Professor at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon
I am a mathematics teacher and have enjoyed using Prezi in situations where I do not need to enter mathematical formulae into my presentation. As a maths teacher this is however a fairly big draw back about using Prezi, if I can’t enter mathematical expressions and equations easily – like using MathType for instance – then as a presentation tool it’s not really so useful. So, is there a plan to make it possible to enter mathematical expressions using Prezi in the near future – please?
Hi Callum,
As we have said before we are aware of the request for LaTex or other mathemathical language support development in Prezi. Right now I cannot promise anything to you about this though. Please keep in touch, we always listen to our author’s voices when we develop new features.
Are there special directions for upgrading and existing users account for Edu Licensing? Your form for upgrading errors with “that username already in use.”
Thanks!
Hi John,
This happened because you attempted to register again. You don’t need to register again for an EDU license, just upgrade your existing account.
Good news. How wiil be the verification of student/teacher identity
Thanks
Verification is upon email addresses. You need to have an educational/school email address to verify your identity.
Another BIG thank you from another educator. I use it everyday in my high school English classes!
Thanks for the feedback!
Another BIG thank you Prezi from another educator. I use Prezi everyday in my high school English classes and it has helped me to integrate technology seamlessly into my classroom.
Prezi has also caught on with my students. A student of mine used Prezi for the first time in a French class presentation and shared with me afterwards that other students were “wow’d” by his “Prezintation”, even the French teacher had a smile on her face! Another student used Prezi for the first time and excitedly came to find me after school to tell me all about it!
How can I get prezi for my school presentations?
Hi Lora,
Please just upgrade your existing prezi account to EDU. Here can you find the new licenses: http://prezi.com/profile/signup/edu/
If you don’t have a Prezi account yet, please register to one of our educational licenses on the above link.
Wicked AWESOME!! Thank you for making it free for teachers and students. And now that the interface has become more user-friendly, NO MORE BORING DULL SLIDESHOWS! All my students will be required to use PREZI! THANKS!
It’s so beyond cool – It’s ICED!
While I had heard of Prezi, I haven’t tried it. There seems to be enough buzz around this, that I will give it a try and decide if we’ll extend this knowledge throughout our district to our teachers.
Thank you for this opportunity.
Will librarians be eligible for the educational discount, too? I am a public librarian, but I’m working on a presentation that will be given for both public and school librarians. I also have a need to do educational programs for patrons.
Thanks.
If you have an educational email address verified by the school domain that provided it for you, you can.
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I get the following message while attempting to upgrade my Prezi account to EDU on http://prezi.com/profile/signup/edu/, “This license is valid only for active students and teachers.” Is there any verification method available?
Thanks.
Great job with the new updates, by the way.
I have changed to my school email address. Are the EDU accounts available for students outside of US?
Hi, if you have an educational email address that matches the domain of your school’s home page, we can set it, even if it’s not an .edu address given that it’s not from the US. This case please send me an email to zoltan.radnai_at_prezi.com
I already have a public account but wanted to upgrade to Enjoy. When I attempted to complete the form, it would not take my college email address saying it was already in use.
How can I upgrade to enjoy alternately?
Thank you. Prezi is a blast to use. Much better than the trad. presentation approaches.
Jack Beckman
Hi Jack,
this could happen because you tried to register to Enjoy instead of upgrading. You could not register again since your email address is already in use with your current account. If you just upgrade when previously logged in the system will accept your email.
I would like to switch to the free educational account. I work in the seminary at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, OK.
No problem here. Please use your educational email address to upgrade to an EDU license. Please note that the email address has to match your school domain.
I’m having difficult because my email is .net and my school’s address is .org. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks and what a fabulous product!
hi, please send me an email with your domain and email address to zoltan.radnai_at_prezi.com.
Wow, I cannot tell you how glad I am you made these improvements. I searched high and low when I was creating my Prezi to figure out how to ZOOM…then that auto zoom out when clicking on the Prezi got me so off into a ditch I had to totally start from scratch on my Prezi just so I could get the ZOOM right. I’m so glad in your video you have mentioned both having the new zoom in/out on the grid as well as the mouse ball. That was a huge missing link for me until I finally figured it out and it could have saved me hours of frustration. The video was spot on and your new LEARNING PREZI is perfect. It really gets to the level of detail that I was needed you to explain things at. Very good job!! A+.
Hi Yvonne,
thanks for your feedback!
After entering my school’s website url, I get a message that says my website and email address endings do not match and it will not let me continue? How can I update?
Hi, please send me an email with your school email address and school domain to zoltan.radnai@prezi_dot_com
Én is nemrég elkezdtem használni a Prezi programot az oktatásban.
Egyelőre meg vagyok vele elégedve, azonban csak a demo változatát
b1rtam letölteni. Ez csak 3o napig érvényes. Utána használati díjat
kérnek.
Kérdésem, tudna-e valamilyen megoldást a Prezi ingyenes vagy
kedvezményezett használatára ?
Tisztelettel
Szűcs Endre tanár, okl. jogász
Műszaki iskola
Óbecse
Kedves Endre,
A Prezi Public licensze ingyenes. Oktatóként igénybe veheti EDU licenszeink valamelyikét is. Kérem tájékozódjon a részleteket illetően itt: http://prezi.com/profile/signup
Thanks!!!!!
I’m TIC manager’s Colegio Altamira, Chile, latinamerica.
We used Prezi for many presentations. Good news.
How about some of that generosity for Non Profit startups?
Hopefully, we’ll see an NP-Enjoy edition soon.
Hey thank you for making it free to students/teachers, I’ve been reading a little about Prezi and I think it will be of big help when presenting college projects.
Thank you!
Dear Prezi team
Recently I started to use Prezi in my classes. For now I am more than satisfied with it, however I only managed to obtain the demo version which expires within a month. Since I intend to use Prezi in the future, I would like to ask you to allow me to use a free version for education purposes.
Endre Szűcs, Civil education and Citizen’s rights teacher
Becej Technical Highschool
Serbia
Hi,
we have a free educational license you can upgrade to. Please see http://prezi.com/profile/signup
If Prezi software manual was in spanish too, will be better to others users.
Thanks.
Hello, do you know any spanish guides or manuals online? We would be happy to share it in our learn center
Dear Zoli,
I have tried to upgrade from a Public account to the now free EduEnjoy account, but when I input my school’s email address a red message appears saying that the address is already in use.
Am I doing something wrong or can suggest some way of getting around this issue.
Many thanks,
Mike
Hi, you must be registering again instead of upgrading. Please log in first, then on your profile settings page, click upgrade.
A great idea – unfortunately none of our students or staff have email addresses that match with the school’s website, so we cannot take advantage of this. I think this is likely to be the case for the majority of schools in the UK, whose students and teachers access email through a learning platform that has standardised email addresses. Any suggestions…?
Hi, please send me your school website domain and your educational email addresses to zoltan.radnai_at_prezi.com.
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It’s so cool and can help me express myself easier . lol
Thank you for your new ideas.
Excellent news, can I assume that emails without the .sch.uk address but with the ac.uk (equivalent to .edu in the states) will also be accepted ?
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hi, this really fantastic for present but i have problem for download it becase speed download in iran is low plese help me
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?
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.
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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
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.
[...] 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
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.
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.
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
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
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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.
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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.