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Microsoft Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP) and New Commerce Experience (NCE) licensing
Precedence is a Microsoft CSP partner meaning that, in additional to the traditional subscription-based licences, we can also supply Microsoft Cloud services (such as Office 365, Microsoft 365 and Azure Active Directory Premium) as well as products which are licensed through the same model (such as Minecraft Education, Power BI and Windows 10 per-user VDA).
With CSP, you pay per month per user for most products. You can also alter the quantities on your subscription as you wish and you will be charged pro-rata. You need to pick the quantities in advance of using them so that the licences are available (some other licence models charge you at the end of the month for what you have used, with Microsoft CSP you are invoiced in advance for licences you wish to have available for the upcoming month).
- Setting up an agreement if you have an existing Office 365 tenancy
- Setting up an agreement and a new Office 365 tenancy
Student use benefits
For some products, each faculty licence covers a certain amount of student use as part of the Student use benefit as long as all faculty, staff and Knowledge Workers are covered (see page 14 here)
A qualifying product license enables an institution to order
either 15 or 40 Student Use Benefit licenses, dependent on
the qualifying product. This also depends upon the licence model being used; some benefits are for CSP only and some exclude CSP (e.g. Minecraft). For full details see here:
https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/product/StudentUseBenefitsandAcademicPrograms/all
Minecraft: Education Edition
Minecraft: Education Edition does not have Student use benefits when licensed using CSP. If not using Microsoft 365 A3 or A5, you will need a Minecraft Education Edition (per user) licence for each user (both staff and students)
There are two different ways of assigning licences and this is what gives you the operator vs user rights (rather than student vs faculty licences):
https://educommunity.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/360047117072-Profile-Types-and-Permissions-
By assigning licences as Faculty in Azure AD, you are explicitly granting those users operator rights. Student are licensed using the education store.
It may have appeared in the past that you did not need to assign licences to students, but that is because they were free until July 2020 to support remote learning. Since July 2020, you have to licence students too and then assign the licences appropriately between students (education store) and faculty (Azure AD).