"If the computer can access the Internet, it dumps you here"
That's because the new concept for Help is to access the peer user community, in lieu of the old Learning Center tutorials and the great Help articles have mostly been removed in lieu of url links.
And other providers that give you a student file include Payroll functionality, so that your students get to use Payroll Center, Payroll Schedules, and even Fed and State Forms. The Sample file simulation is Enhanced Subscription level, too, the same as most publishers provide with their student files.
If your students are at an exercise where they start their own file to use and learn from, of course, they never get to see Payroll Center.
This is Not really what you have: "The school's version is from Intuit Education Program, as are all the student copies. This version is QuickBooks Accountant Desktop 2018, as are all my students' copies."
It's an Educational License Package. You have Real Programs. The Program is not crippled.
