Washington State Library Microsoft Imagine Academy

The Washington State Library Microsoft Imagine Academy provides free, online, self-paced technology courses for all Washington residents. Courses are available at three levels - basic digital literacy skills, Microsoft Office Skills and advanced skills for Microsoft professional certification.

In partnership with Microsoft, the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State received special Legislative appropriation to fund a statewide subscription to the Microsoft Imagine Academy, with access through state residents’ local public, tribal, and community and technical college libraries, and the Washington State Library. For more about this partnership, please visit the Microsoft Imagine Academy project page.

To access the Microsoft Imagine Academy, you will need a Microsoft account and the FIRST TIME you access the site, an enrollment code or link from a participating Washington library. After accessing the site the first time, RETURNING USERS can go directly to the Microsoft Imagine Academy site. You may find it helpful to bookmark the Microsoft Imagine Academy homepage.

You will need a Microsoft Account to use the Microsoft Imagine Academy. Any email address ending with Hotmail.com, Outlook.com, MSN.com and Live.com is a Microsoft account.

If you do not have a Microsoft Account, create one using the Microsoft Account Sign-up page. You may use an existing email address as the username for your Microsoft account. To complete the account sign-up process, you will be asked to verify your email address.

If you have already enrolled in the Microsoft Imagine Academy through the Washington State Library or another library in Washington state, you can go directly to the Microsoft Imagine Academy website. Once there, we recommend bookmarking the page or saving it to your favorites to make getting back to your courses between sessions very easy.

If you are logging into Microsoft Imagine Academy for the first time, locate your local library and their Imagine Academy access page. To access the Imagine Academy from your local library’s website, you may be asked to enter your library card number, or visit the library in person.

If you don’t have a library card, or live in an area without library service, you may access the Microsoft Imagine Academy by completing the form below. Once at the Imagine Academy site, it may take a few moments for the Enrollment code field to populate; once that happens, enter your email address and click Submit. Follow the prompts to accept the Terms of Use and your User Profile.

After creating your account and profile, to return to the Microsoft Imagine Academy and continue your courses, go directly to the Microsoft Imagine Academy site at imagineacademy.microsoft.com. Choose Sign in, and when prompted to ‘Sign in with a work or school, or personal Microsoft account’, choose Personal account.

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