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Trailhead states that "Education Cloud is now called Agentforce Education" and describes it as "an integrated platform built for academic institutions of all types and sizes". It combines CRM, an adaptable data model, student information system capabilities, and agentic AI and analytics, and it runs on its own data foundation within the core Salesforce Platform.

Salesforce's US product page still uses the Education Cloud name. Both names refer to the same product. Trailhead groups it around four stages of the learner journey:

• Recruitment and admissions: prospects, inquiries, campus tours, applications and document review.
• Student success: advising, appointments, care plans and early alerts for students who need help.
• Academic operations: course catalogs, registration, waitlists and degree planning.
• Advancement and alumni relations: fundraising, gift planning and alumni engagement.

The stage names come from Trailhead and the examples from Salesforce's Education Cloud page (both read 11 November 2026). The product page also lists student financials: accounts, fees, billing and payments.

An institution usually combines Agentforce Education with other Salesforce products. The table maps common education processes to the product that usually carries them.

Which product fits a process is our guidance and depends on your scope. To talk it through, book a discovery call.

Portals are where students, applicants and alumni help themselves: check an application, book an advisor, raise a request, pay a fee or update details. On Salesforce they run on Experience Cloud, on the same data the staff see, so a request raised in the portal reaches the right office as a case.

Salesforce's Education Cloud page describes giving learners "one place to manage their learner journeys with a tailored portal". A one-stop portal of this kind replaces walk-ins and email chains with tracked cases and a self-service knowledge base.

For a working example, see the FLAME University portal below, and our Experience Cloud services.

• FLAME University, a residential university in Pune, India, runs a Salesforce Experience Cloud portal through a native iOS and Android app, with geo-location classroom attendance, Razorpay course payments, hostel management and faculty collaboration. Results: −35% manual intervention across operations, 100% centralized visibility on key data and +30% process efficiency.
• SchoolLinks runs a Salesforce Experience Cloud student portal through a native mobile app, with geo-location classroom check-in and check-out, Razorpay course payments and staff announcements, and its case study reports less manual work and a complete 360-degree view of students, staff and their payments.

The FLAME University figures come from its case study. Other education programs in the library include Ashoka University, Online Courses Australia (Marketing Cloud) and TSPP in Singapore (Sales Cloud).

Salesforce's Power of Us program covers educational institutions as well as nonprofits. According to Salesforce Help, one donation is provided per school district or per 501(c)(3) institution. The donation options listed there are 10 Nonprofit Enterprise Edition licenses or 10 Sales and Service Enterprise Edition licenses.

Eligibility, products and terms are Salesforce's; check them on the Power of Us application page before you plan a budget. Setup, data migration and integration are not part of the donation.