This quickstart article explains how to assign credit to teachers in the Azure Education Center. This article is designed for IT administrators to provide credits to professors at their university to spend creating labs for their students.
Previous requirements
- Enrolled in the Azure Pay for Teaching program
- MCA signed
- In direct field motion
- With a billing profile and a billing account
- With the corresponding teacher owners in the billing profile
Visit the Education Center in the Azure portal
The first step to assign credit to teachers is to go to the Education section of the Azure portal
- Go to portal.azure.com.
- Sign in with the account associated with the Azure payment program for teaching.
- Search for “Education” in the search bar.
You will now be in the Education Center.
credit assignment
Now in the Education Center, you can provision credit for the professors of your university. Assigning credit to a teacher means that you allow them to use “x” money from the billing profile to use for creating labs in the Education Center. Make sure the corresponding teacher you want to assign credit to is in the same tenant as you and owns the billing profile you want to add credit to.
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Go to the “Credits” section of the Education Center
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Select “Add” to start adding new credit.
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Choose the billing profile from which you want teachers to draw money.
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Set the credit amount.
Use
Due to latency problems, there may be cases in which the money invested is slightly higher than the established budget.
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Set the date these credits will expire. You will be able to extend the date and modify the credits after creation.
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Select Next and confirm the details.
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Finally, select the “Create” button to finish.
Congratulations. You just created a credit that teachers can use in labs to distribute money to students to deploy Azure resources.
Modification of credits
After you have created credits, they will be displayed as rows in the “Credits” tab. You can modify them after creation if necessary.
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Select the Edit button to the right of the credit.
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You can modify the end date and the credit amount.
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You can only extend the end date of the credit.
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You can also modify which teachers have access to credit. To do this, go to Cost Management and add or remove teachers from the billing profile associated with the credit.
The selected teachers should receive an invitation email to visit the Education Center to start using these credits. Make sure teachers sign in to the Azure portal with the account associated with the billing profile for the credit.
