Your cloud backpack for school

Classes, homework, and exams can be stressful, but SkyDrive makes it easy for you and your classmates to be productive from anywhere. Right now, you carry around your class notebooks, binders full of handouts and homework, heavy textbooks, and your laptop, tablet, smartphone and everything else that you think you’ll need.

There’s a better way. Let SkyDrive be your cloud backpack instead.

You can keep all of your stuff for class in the cloud—and access it from any of your devices or from the library or computer lab. What's even better is that the cloud never forgets and leaves something at home.

Study from anywhere

After you install SkyDrive for Windows or Mac, create folders for each of your classes in your SkyDrive folder. Save all of your handouts, homework assignments, and papers or project files there. That way, everything will always be accessible from your smartphone or tablet, with SkyDrive for Windows Phone, iPhone, or iPad .

You can also access your stuff at SkyDrive.com from any browser. Not only can you open, edit, or print the latest versions of your documents using free Office Web Apps, but you can also fetch any file that is saved on your PC back home, so you never have to worry about forgetting something.

Upgrade to a cloud notebook

If you have Microsoft Office, you might already have OneNote 2010 . OneNote doesn’t just replace your paper notebook. It helps you stay organized and on top of your classes—storing notes, to-do lists, screen clippings, webpages and more—all in one searchable place. OneNote can even record your lectures.

Once you have SkyDrive, OneNote becomes even more powerful. Save your notebook to your SkyDrive folder and download the OneNote mobile app so you can study anywhere, right from your phone.

Go paperless

If your professor has a PDF version of the handouts or case studies, you can save the files directly to your SkyDrive or OneNote notebook. Or, you can use a scanner, smartphone app, or take a picture of your handouts, homework, or even lecture notes from your friends to digitize them and store them in your SkyDrive.

Work together with anyone

Now everyone can work together, whether they're on a PC or a Mac. And you don't have to reformat your document when switching between Google Docs and Microsoft Office. Instead, everyone can use Office or the Office Web App right in their browser to create great-looking presentations, spreadsheets, and group papers—all from different computers.

Share stuff easily

Aside from working together, SkyDrive also makes it easy to share spring break photos, your band’s latest recording, a class video, or anything else you want to show your friends. It’s simple to share individual files or entire folders with whomever you choose.

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