Microsoft Azure Credit for Students

Modified on: Wed, Nov 26, 2025 9:54 AM

All LSUS students are eligible for $100 of free Azure credit per year. This is part of Microsoft's "Azure Dev Tools for Teaching" program.

To learn more about this program, please see Microsoft's FAQ here: Microsoft Azure FAQ

Unfortunately, Microsoft requires several steps that you must complete to activate this offer. We outline these steps below.

The following steps can be followed to gain access to this credit:

Visit Dev Tools for Teaching
Click "Sign In"
Sign in with your LSUS Single Sign-on credentials using your [email protected] username (e.g. [email protected]).
Complete the "Academic Verification" form. Note that the "School name" should be "Louisiana State University-Shreveport (Shreveport, LA)"
View and accept the terms
Complete the creation of your profile. Make sure you use your LSUS email address (e.g. [email protected]) and not your username (e.g. [email protected]).
You should then be redirected to the Education page of the Azure Portal site. You can alternatively navigate to this page manually by searching for "Education" at Azure Portal and clicking on "Education"
Once you are on the Education page of Azure Portal, Click on "Get Started"
Here you should see "Redeem student credits." Click the button below this text to activate your $100 in Azure credit.
You should now have access to an "Azure for Students" Azure Subscription which has $100 of credit.
You can view this subscription by searching for "Subscriptions" in the bar at the top of Azure Portal. Note that you will need to set the filter on this page to "All subscriptions" to see your "Azure for Students" subscription.
You can now create resources in Azure using this new "Azure for Students" subscription. Note that the "LSUS Azure Subscription 1" Azure subscription is not usable, and you will see errors if you attempt to use it. Make sure you only use the "Azure for Students" subscription.