• The Education edition has more features than the Home, Pro, and Pro Education editions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_editions#Comparison_chart
• Microsoft will distribute only one Windows Education key to each student.

To receive your Windows student key, please follow these steps:

• Open a browser. Microsoft recommends that you use Private or Incognito mode.
• Go to https://signup.azure.com/studentverification?offerType=3
• On the sign-in page, use your netid@wisc.edu email address

• If this is the first time you have signed in to this site, you will need to complete these steps:
  • You will be asked to agree to the terms and conditions and the Academic/Student verification
  
  • For the Academic/Student verification, please fill in the fields. For school name, type in Madison and then select University of Wisconsin Madison (Madison, WI)
  • For your school email address, please use your netid@wisc.edu email address.

• You will now be routed to the Education | Overview hub page. (NOTE: Pay attention to directions below, they differ slightly from the screenshot).

• To see the available software, please click on the 'Software' tab on the left side of the page.
• In the search box, type in 'Windows 11' (without the quotes).
• Select Windows 11 Education (NOTE: if you need Windows 10 Education, search for that instead. You will only get a key for one version of Windows but Windows 10 may be upgraded to Windows 11 in the future). You do NOT want the N version.
• Click on 'View key' to get your product key for the version of Windows you selected. We strongly recommend you also backup this key securely.
• Click on 'Download' to download the Windows installer