What is DreamSpark ? – Well put quite simply, Microsoft decided to make some of it’s software freely available to any student in the world.

Just visit the website at the following URL: https://www.dreamspark.com/

Follow the steps shown on the Dreamspark Website.

Step 1. Sign in – you must have a valid Windows Live ID to sign in, you can create this when you click the sign in button at the top of the website.

Either create a new Live ID, or sign in using an existing Live ID.

Select Europe in step 1, Europe will then turn dark grey.

Next select United Kingdom from the drop down selection list in step 2

And finally don’t fill in any access code, just select Leeds learning Network from the final list in step 3, and click continue.

If you are in school, and logged onto the internet, you should see the following screen briefly

If you are logging on from home, you may see the following screen:

In this case, log into leeds learning network as normal, you will then be re-directed to the DreamSpark Website.

You can now download any of the software for free.