How To Use OneDrive

by | Sep 5, 2019 | Aquinas News, Featured News | 0 comments

To Get on PowerSchool Learning From Home:

  1. Open up your web browser ex: Firefox, Safari, and Edge.
  2. Go to the Aquinas Website: www.aquinas-catholic.com
  3. Click on the “Parents” tab at the top of the screen.
  4. Under the Links: PowerSchool Learning for Students.
  5. On the next webpage you will have a big green button that says, “Sign in with Office 365” you need to click that button.
  6. You will be prompted to enter your email address: [email protected]
  7. Once you are in PowerSchool Learning you will see in the upper right corner of the page there is an icon of 2 clouds. This is your OneDrive.
  8. Click the icon of the two clouds.
  9. The OneDrive is now open and now you should be able to see any files that you have saved to it previously.
  10. You can click on the file that you wish to work on and start editing/adding onto it right there.
  11. If you haven’t used the OneDrive previously and you wish to create a new file. Look to the far left corner of the window just under the favorites bar next to the bishop’s seal. There are 9 squares there. Click on them. Once you have you will see all of the programs available to you in Office 365.
  12. Click Microsoft Word. This will open Word online.
  13. Choose a blank document, and begin working.

Working offline with an online document

  1. Once you have the document or file open that you wish to use, look under the title of the document. There should be a button that says, “Open in desktop App”
  2. Click that button/phrase. You will then have to click the “Open Link” button at the bottom of a dialogue box that opens, and there will be another warning that pops up telling you there may be a virus in the file, click “Yes” as it is unlikely a file you created yourself has a virus.
  3. Start working.

To save a OneDrive document that you’ve been working on in the desktop app back to the OneDrive:

(You should have your OneDrive already in your list of places to save, but if you don’t follow these steps.)

  1. Click “Save As” under the File tab.
  2. Click on the OneDrive icon and enter your school email address and password information. Then you will get a link to your OneDrive at the top of the list of places you can save as. Click that OneDrive Link and you’re all set.

To save a document you began in the desktop app (offline) to the OneDrive:

There are 2 ways to do this:

  1. Way 1: click “save as” under the file tab in word and choose your OneDrive option right under the huge “save as” on the screen.
  2. Way 2: open your OneDrive  from PowerSchool Learning,  and at the top of the OneDrive window there is a small “upload” with an arrow next to it click that and search your computer for the file.
  3. You will be asked for a password. Your password is the same password you use at school to get onto the computers here.

F.Y.I.

  1. OneDrive auto saves, as you type. So, you don’t need to worry about losing your work.
  2. If you wish to change the name of your document simply double click on “Document 1” at the top of the document and type in the name you would like to use.
  3. There are some features that are not available in the online versions of Word, PowerPoint and Excel, however.  If you wish to work offline with a document created in Office 365, do the following. Any file type should save to OneDrive.
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