--- schema_version: "1" id: 1c25868b2c070e43be294a805599e241d646aa67c90da7bf1522b3cb6ddd87ef title: Learn About Education Cloud collection: admin version: current locale: en-us portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/admin/current/en-us/sfdo/264-0-0/ec_learn_about_education_cloud_2.md canonical_url: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_learn_about_education_cloud_2.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 source_site: help.salesforce.com content_type: documentation content_hash: 89799e71ea3d802f978a6a50d21b81f9ec3620851f98eaa85c54bb67e9ba5389 description: Drive learner and institution success with Education Cloud. products: - Education release: "264" --- # Learn About Education Cloud Drive learner and institution success with Education Cloud.
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Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions with Education Cloud
![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sfdo-education_cloud-264-0-0-production-enus/89403874-2a89-4126-b574-9db175c14f28/images/icon_note.png) Note Starting in March 2023, Salesforce offers Salesforce for Education, which includes integrated platform solutions and managed packages. This article provides information about Education Cloud, a platform solution. For information about managed package products, see [Admissions Connect](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleview?id=sfdo.admissions_connect.htm), [Education Data Architecture](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleview?id=sfdo.education_data_architecture.htm), or [Student Success Hub](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleview?id=sfdo.student_success_hub.htm&type=5). If you're not sure which version your institution uses, check with your Salesforce administrator. The next-generation CRM for education is here. Education Cloud is the digital foundation empowering tomorrow’s institutions today. With Education Cloud's configurable and secure platform, your institution becomes future-ready in a fast-changing digital landscape. Education Cloud draws on the power of Salesforce to connect insights across recruitment, admissions, and student success for a unified view of every learner's journey. A single source of truth creates a complete student profile, so your institution can offer personalized experiences that translate into successful lifetime learners — from prospective student to engaged alum. With Salesforce at the center of your institution's information technology solution, important tasks can be completed in less time, at scale, and in collaboration between departments. Education Cloud provides your institution with powerful technologies including: - An online learner portal powered by Experience Cloud - Single, home page views of important departmental activities with Recruiting and Admissions Consoles - Powerful workflow automation and tailored user interfaces with Omnistudio - Customizable reports and dashboards providing actionable insights with CRM Analytics As you explore Education Cloud, get help and share ideas on best practices by connecting with our amazing user groups in the Trailblazer Community. Log in using your Salesforce credentials and join both the [Education Hub](https://trailhead.salesforce.com/trailblazer-community/groups/0F9300000001ogNCAQ?tab=discussion&LAST_MODIFIED_DATE_DESC) and [Education Release Readiness](https://trailhead.salesforce.com/trailblazer-community/groups/0F94S000000kHOcSAM?tab=discussion&LAST_MODIFIED_DATE_DESC) groups. - **[Get Started with Education Cloud](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_get_started.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Education Cloud offers a learner-first, organization-wide, stakeholder engagement and collaboration platform for Education that maximizes outcomes and experiences for lifelong learners. Explore what's offered by Education Cloud, get hands-on with a trial org, and then learn about what setup we recommend, and how to get ready for your implementation. - **[Understand What's Included with Education Cloud](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_understand_whats_included_with_education_cloud.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Education Cloud provides educational institutions with a specialized data model and tools that support the entire learning experience. The platform includes features and capabilities for recruitment and admissions, academic operations, student success, mentoring, alumni relations, and fundraising. Educational institutions facilitate the journeys of many different stakeholders. They create and maintain recruitment and application processes, organize academic courses and programs, manage student support programs, and more. Education Cloud uses Salesforce's platform along with a specialized data model to build applications that help support the entire learning experience. - **[Create an Education Cloud Trial Org](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_create_an_education_cloud_trial_org.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Get hands-on experience with Education Cloud at no additional cost. Choose a learning org with rich sample data or a base org to test your own use cases. - **[Discover and Set Up Education Cloud Features With Salesforce Go](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_discover_and_set_up_education_cloud_features_with_salesforce_go.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Explore, set up and configure, and monitor usage of Education Cloud features in one streamlined setup location. Access content resources, such as videos, online tours, Trailhead, and Salesforce Help articles, to learn about features, and get help with configuration. Discover more Education Cloud features and add-on licenses that are available based on your Salesforce edition. And if you’ve turned on the Your Account app, you can quickly buy add-on licenses for some products directly from Salesforce Go. - **[Recruitment and Admissions](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_recruitment_and_admissions.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Discover how Education Cloud supports your recruitment and admissions activities with an online portal and powerful collaboration tools. - **[Academic Operations](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_academic_operations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Discover how Education Cloud helps you manage your institution’s academic (or learning) offerings. - **[Student Success](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_student_success.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Learn how Education Cloud provides you with powerful tools to support learner success. - **[Mentoring](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_mentoring.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Create and manage mentoring programs, strengthen relationships between mentors and mentees, assign benefits, and manage assessments. - **[Alumni Relations](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_alumni_relations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Learn about the powerful tools that Education Cloud provides to engage with alumni from your institution. - **[Developer Resources for Education Cloud](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_developer_resources.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Learn where to find developer resources including the entity relationship diagram (ERD), object reference, and apex reference. - **[Keep Up with Education Cloud Releases](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_keep_up_with_releases.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Stay informed about Education Cloud product updates and release schedule. - **[Education Cloud and Translation](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_and_translation.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Salesforce provides translations for Education Cloud in multiple languages.