Microsoft Teams for Education is the Teams app for schools and educational institutions. Teachers and students use it for video meetings, chat, assignments, class materials and notes, and for class and staff teams. Access requires a valid, active email address from the educational institution. Microsoft also describes tools such as Whiteboard and polling. It runs as a Microsoft cloud service; self-hosting is not possible.
Microsoft Corporation is headquartered in the United States, so the service falls under US jurisdiction, including the CLOUD Act. For Microsoft 365 customers whose sign-up location is in the EU or EFTA, Microsoft stores and processes customer data within the EU and EFTA under its EU Data Boundary, with limited exceptions. According to Microsoft, education subscriptions do not qualify for the Multi-Geo option. The product page itself contains no GDPR or data-location statement. European education institutions should review the data processing terms and the privacy terms for student data separately.