Benefits of having an educational email account.

Benefits of having an educational email account.

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Why This Article?

  1. Lately, our college provided us with educational email accounts, and most of the students had no clue what that meant and how to access the benefits linked.
  2. I found no article on the internet that was curated for students based in Indian Institutions(If you found one, drop the link in comments, thank you).

Free Benefits:

1. GitHub Student Developer Pack

  • The biggest advantage of having an Edu email is that you can apply for the Github Education Pack and get quickly approved.
  • Once approved you get access to a variety of Offers and Discounts for a wide range of Categories(12 at the time this post was written) and believe it or not most of the useful tools are provided for free.
  • The total value of this pack is around ~100-200k dollars as explained here.
  • Noteworthy Tools and Resources:
    1. Free 12 month subscription of Canva's Pro tier. What's Canva?
    2. A free license for Bootstrap Studio while you are a student. What's Bootstrap Studio?
    3. One free domain name and free Advanced Security (SSL, privacy protection, and more) at Name.com.
    4. Unity Student Plan free while you are a student, the real-time 3D development platform. What's Unity?
    5. Get 6 free months of 60+ courses covering in-demand topics like Web Development, Python, Java, and Machine Learning at Educative.
    6. Free 6-months access to all courses and workshops, to advance your skills with in-depth JavaScript, Node.js & front-end engineering courses at Frontend Masters.
    7. PomoDone Lite plan free for 2-years. What's PomoDone?

2. Autodesk Products

  • Autodesk provides a large number of free software licenses for students. You will have to register on their website using your Edu Email account and then download the free software and licenses.
  • The licenses are renewable as long as you remain eligible(i.e. student).
  • Noteworthy Tools:
    1. Fusion 360.
    2. Autocad.
    3. Maya.

3. Microsoft Office 365 Suite

  • Wait, there's a catch here, you'll get the online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
  • But!!! If you are willing to pay some extra rupees per month, you can get the desktop versions too.

4. Development tools from JetBrains!

  • Get free access to all JetBrains IDEs (17 at the time this post was written) for personal use at school or at home. Apply here.
  • Noteworthy IDEs:
    1. IntelliJ IDEA. What?
    2. CLion. What?
    3. PyCharm. What?

5. Unlimited Google Drive Cloud Storage

  • This is only applicable if your college uses G Suite to assign emails.
  • The unlimited cloud storage is available by default and requires no registration.
  • Caution!!! Once your institution disables the email assigned to you, you can no longer access the storage.

6. Texas Instruments Sample Program

  • For someone into electronics this can be a money saviour deal, as TI has the ability to ship a majority of fundamental components used in your next project, shipped free.
  • Caution!!! Custom charges extra, and most of the time it does charge a lot if you have a lot of components in your package. So choose components wisely.
  • If you are a first time user of the sample program, you will be required to request access for approval(takes about 4-5 days) prior to placing your sample order.

Notable Discounts:

1. Sketch

  • Create, prototype, collaborate, and bring your ideas to life with the design platform.
  • 50% Off when you apply from here.

2. Adobe Creative Cloud

  • Express your creativity with all 20+ apps, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
  • 60% on Adobe Creative Cloud and get one month free when you pay up front, Buy from here.

Conclusion

  • Now that you've a clear Idea about the benefits, I encourage you to go ahead and try the ones that you find the best suitable for your purpose or at least check a few that interest you.
  • Especially emphasize on the Github Student Developer Pack if you want to learn new technologies.