Welcome to educator support

All of Intuit's educational products and resources are completely free. Visit the product page you want to explore and click "sign up" or "get started". You may be required to provide your email address and other information to confirm your status as an educator or student. All of our education products come with their own resources and toolkits, but we recommend starting with Mint or TurboTax for personal finance; and QuickBooks and Design for Delight for Accounting and Entrepreneurship. If you're not sure which product to start with, contact us at education@intuit.com. 

Intuit supports staff and students of accredited U.S. institutions.

Faculty or staff: employed by an accredited primary or secondary school, public or private university or college, school district, or board of education

Accredited public or private primary or secondary schools providing full-time instruction for grades K-12, or school districts for such schools

Accredited public or private universities or colleges (including community, junior, or vocational colleges) that grant degrees requiring not less than the equivalent of two years of full-time study

Institutions which fit the above criteria must use the software for instructional purposes only

If you're still not sure if you or your school meets the requirements below, please contact us at education@intuit.com.

Yes, each lesson connects to both Jump$tart and CEE’s Personal Finance National Standards.

The license won’t expire as long as an educator meets Intuit's eligibility requirements. QuickBooks Online for students is a 1-year trial.

You will need to register with Intuit. Visit this page to complete the registration form.

After completing registration, you can access QuickBooks Online Educator Portal within 20 minutes.

Product updates happen all the time and roll out slowly to all, so sometimes a student or educator may see something different. If you have concerns about discrepancies, please contact us at education@intuit.com.

As an educator but you will have access to QuickBooks Online Educator Portal which is where you can access your students files once they are set up.

The QuickBooks Educator portal allows you manage all of your students, classrooms, and assignments in one place. Teachers use the Educator Portal to manage student access to QuickBooks as well. For more information, check out the QuickBooks Educator Portal video.

With QuickBooks Online, students receive a cloud-based account that can be accessed on any computer or smartphone with an internet connection. Students who share devices with other students or family members can easily and securely access their QuickBooks Online account by logging in and out at their discretion.

QuickBooks Online Plus is a 12 month trial. QuickBooks Desktop Accountant Student Edition is a 5 month trial.

If you need access to QuickBooks Online, please reach out to your instructor as they will have to send you an invite.

The confirmation email provides instructions to download and install QuickBooks. If you're having a problem accessing the software go directly to​ ​Downloads & Updates​. (Select Accountant version) Note: Education licenses are set up to install on multiple computers in the classroom. You should not install it on a student's personal computer. You can register/activate QuickBooks using the information from the email.

If you didn't receive an email, check your Spam folder. You can search for an email from Intuit Verification Verify@SheerID.com. If you still are not able to find it, email us at education@intuit.com for help.

QuickBooks Online: click here to sign in.

QuickBooks Desktop: click here to download.

Make sure to select the version of QuickBooks Desktop that corresponds to the version listed in your confirmation!

2018 system requirements

2019 system requirements

2020 system requirements

2021 system requirements

Note: As of January 14, 2020, Microsoft no longer supports Windows 7.​ ​Learn more

To make sure you have the latest and greatest features, QuickBooks Online updates approximately every 6 weeks. You may experience slight changes to your software when new features are rolled out.

To see your students QuickBooks, you will have to access to their company through the educator portal.

As an educator, you can reset your demo company. As a student, your educator will need to invite you to a new QuickBooks company.

From your educator portal, you can remove the class under the "class actions" in the middle right hand side of your screen.

​Set up QuickBooks Online Payroll without a subscription. Find details on setup here.

No, not at this time.

You are OK! The 3 just means that you can simulate a small business environment which would allow up to 3 users to access the same data file, saved to the same location at the same time.

The confirmation email provides the license information, as well as instructions to download and install QuickBooks. You need the license to install. You can access the QuickBooks download directly through​ ​Downloads & Updates​ (Select the Accountant version). Need help installing the software? Visit​ ​Register and install a QuickBooks Desktop student trial.

Design for Delight shares many ideas and tools with the design thinking methods developed at IDEO and Stanford University. Most importantly, Design for Delight is focused on understanding and meeting customer needs, which is another way of saying that we practice human-centered design. Many classic techniques associated with design thinking, such as brainstorming, prototyping, and experimenting, are also key features of Design for Delight.

Absolutely! Design for Delight can be used in any subject or class in which students need to build skills in creativity, communication, and collaboration. All you need is a human-centered challenge that students can work on in pairs or teams to come up with an innovative solution.

Yes! Although our content and materials are targeted for older students, you can use many of the ideas and tools in your elementary school classroom. Keep in mind that using Design for Delight doesn't mean you use every single tool or technique. Many teachers have successfully used basic techniques such as customer interviews, brainstorming, rapid prototyping, and testing with younger students.

Many education professionals have used Design for Delight to approach problems in education such as curriculum design, school schedules, policy changes, and other important topics. We recommend that you use our materials to build innovation skills within your team, and then work together to apply the principles to a current challenge in your work.

While many conventional problem-solving methods start with analysis, often done alone, Design for Delight encourages us to start with customer interactions that enable us to understand the problem firsthand. Furthermore, Design for Delight encourages us to come up with many solutions, rather than just one, based on the belief that generating many ideas makes a creative breakthrough more likely. Finally, Design for Delight is an iterative process that includes creating, testing, and improving on our ideas, instead of a linear approach that concludes after the first solution has been found.

Design for Delight is a great complement to Project-Based Learning. For any given project, students can apply relevant techniques from Design for Delight such as observation, hypothesis testing, and iteration to come up with more innovative and collaborative final outcomes. Furthermore, the Design for Delight framework is ideal for students to learn in pairs or teams, while building their abilities to empathize, work together effectively, and present their ideas.