Mega With Free PRO Accounts for Teachers and Students

Mega Limited announced that free 12 months PRO subscriptions would be available to teachers and students of verified educational institutions.

Stephen Hall, executive chairman, said: “The encrypted cloud storage and chat provided by Mega provides an excellent basis for continued teacher-student interaction, allowing effective remote learning.“

Many educational institutions have closed in order to limit the spread of Covid-19. Mega’s platform provides the features to allow students to continue their studies by connecting to teachers and teaching resources.

Recently a private school in Portugal shared folders to nearly 2,000 accounts, facilitating their remote learning activities.

Mega is offering all educational institutions free PRO accounts for all their teachers and students.

This will allow them to: 

• Upload and share individual files or complete folders of teaching material;
• Open a Megadrop folder for students to upload their files to the teacher’s account;
• Have multi-party text, voice and video chats;*
• Enjoy the privacy of Mega’s user-controlled end-to-end encryption;
• Enjoy fast file transfers.

Mega is available in Arabic, Chinese (traditional and simplified), Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

Educational Institutions should apply to education@mega.nz

After verification of their status, Mega will provide vouchers, or automatic upgrade for the verified domain, to give all their accounts free PRO status for 12 months, which provides 400GB of file storage and 1TB of transfer quota for every account.

An IT professional working for a Portuguese private school reported to Mega: “I’m writing this e-mail to compliment your service. I’ve created a free account last Friday to help teachers, parents and students to be able to share work while we are all at home because of the covid-19 pandemic. I’ve shared folders to almost 2,000 users and I must say it’s impressive how Mega holds it together, it works flawlessly and every single person that created an account after I sent the invitations are very impressed. I’m here to congratulate you all on an amazing platform, the best I used so far and free. Keep up the excellent job and keep safe. Best regards from Portugal.“

*Note: The number of participants in multi-party chats depends on the quality of each user’s internet connection. We recommend a maximum of 6 for full multi-party video.