I am the Figma admin (full-time UX Designer) for a university. I currently have three part-time student designers working on projects. These projects benefit all students, staff, faculty, and I work with our student designers to work through concepts, prototypes, building a design system, and collaborate with managers and developers.

On one project, we have one full-time developer and 2-3 part-time student developers who work on these same projects.

There is no easy way to have student workers on an educational plan mixed with our paid plan teams/projects. Ideally, we would want the ability to have educational plan Design Seats and Dev Mode Seats working on project under our paid Org plan. Paying for Designer Seats for part-time students might make sense for a few designers but the cost for part-time students using Dev Mode doesn’t make sense for developers.

We really would like students to get experience with real-world collaborative experiences in Figma. They are learning much more than what they would in a class because they’re working on real projects and these projects have to live under the paid plan because full-time employees work on these projects too.

There are two big issues with using a different team.

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   We have multiple assets (variables, components, and styles) in multiple Figma libraries. These libraries are shared with other projects that students are not involved in. Those libraries are also updated relatively often, so we want to make sure students are working with the latest versions.

   
   


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   I’ve had issues in the past jumping between teams, because I was involved in a project under an Educational Plan and my primary team, under the Paid Organization Plan. I assume it was because I was using the same email address for both, but I would not want the same issues to occur for other team members working on these projects.

   
   

Could there be a way to mix Educational Plan members with Paid Plan teams and projects?