14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has been constantly focused on delivering products tailored for the young. Some of these are the company’s cloud offerings, including SkyDrive and Office Web Apps.
These can easily help students better collaborate on various group projects, and all schools, colleges and universities seeking student collaborations should strongly consider looking at them.
Unlike other similar offerings, that people interested in trying out a web based solution often choose, Microsoft’s products can help users create professional documents. Moreover, their use ensures full compatibility when it comes to moving projects to Office.
The main benefit of choosing Microsoft’s online tools is the collaboration capabilities that other cloud services do not offer, although they include similar functionality.
Through the use of SkyDrive and Office Web Apps, students would also eliminate the need of working independently and then sending documents via email.
With these online collaboration products, users are always sure that they are working on the latest version of a document. Not to mention that a variety of files, including Word documents and PowerPoint presentations, is always at hand.
Some of the main features that SkyDrive and Office Web Apps can deliver include: - SkyDrive and Word let students work together on the same document from different computers - Let everyone in the group work on the same presentation file – even at the same time – from any PC, Mac, or just a web browser with the PowerPoint Web App - Easily share the presentation and let everyone see it the way it was intended to look by uploading the file to SkyDrive and viewing it with the PowerPoint Web App - Access and collaborate on files in almost any web browser even if Office isn't installed on that computer - Spend more time actually working on a spreadsheet or model and less time reformatting or organizing it - With OneNote, keep notes synced across all of your computers and even your Windows Phone or iPhone - Easily open and print your documents from the library or computer lab at school
Using SkyDrive, students can put all files in a single place and then access and edit them from any web browser through the free Office Web Apps.
