Live@edu
u Quick Sttart Guide
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ervice that inncludes anyw
where Microso
access to
o 10 GB mailboxes, 25 GB of free filee storage on SkyDrive, do
ocument sha ring & editin
ng through Office Web Apps, and a lot more thaat you can acccess with th
he same userr ID & passw
word. Activating your Live
e@Edu accou
unt. web browserr and go to h ttp://www.live.com 1. Open your w
2. Enter your w
windows live ID. This wil l be your enrrolment num
mber @kirkleeescollege.acc.uk for example 123
[email protected] this willl also be you
ur email addrress. 3. Your passwo
ord is your date of birth ((ddmmyyyy) 4. Click Sign In 1 w be asked to
o confirm yoour year of biirth and coun
ntry. Enter yyour year of birth 5. You will now
and select U
United Kingdo
om from thee country dro
op down men
nu. Review aand accept tthe terms and co
onditions forr using the seervice. Clickk Accept. w be asked to
o confirm yoour timezone
e. Select (UTC) London foorm the drop
p down 6. You will now
list and clickk ok 2 7. Your accoun
nt is now actiive you shouuld see your mailbox SkyDrivee: SkyDrrive is your o
own online pe
ersonal storaage area. Up
pload your ffiles and pho
otos so you can access thhem from anyywhere, and shhare them to
o collaborate
e with otherss. To acccess your SkyyDrive, click on the ‘Officce’ link and sselect ‘Your Documents’’. To uppload a file, o
open the ‘Myy Documentss’ folder and click on the ‘A
Add files’ linkk. You can select an exxisting folder or you can ccreate a new
w one by sele
ecting ‘New ffolder’. You ccan drag p a file into yyour SkyDrive or you cann browse to tthe file you w
want to uplo ad by clicking on and drop
‘select d
documents frrom your com
mputer”. 3 To open
n a file that iss already on your SkyDrivve just click o
on the file. If it is a file th at can be op
pened by one of the Office Weeb Apps it will open in thhe relevant application.
Saving D
Documents tto the Skydriive within a MS Office A
Application:
You can save directlyy to your Skyydrive withinn Office Applications (Wo
ord, Excel an d Powerpoin
nt) as follows: Within tthe Office Ap
pplication, se
elect ‘Save annd Send’: o Web’: Next, seelect ‘Save to
4 Then clicck on ‘Sign In
n’. You will th
hen be prom
mpted to inpu
ut your usern
name e.g. 12345677@kirkleesco
ollege.ac.uk
k and passwoord. Then clicck on ‘OK’. Finally, sselect the folder to save your work a nd click on ‘SSave’. Office W
Web Apps: You can access onlin
ne versions o
of Word, Exceel, PowerPoiint and OneN
Note throughh your browsser. Log in to you
ur SkyDrive aand select the Office linkk. You can choose to open
n an existingg document ffrom your SkyyDrive or you
u can create a new one f rom the drop down men
nu. To open
n one of the O
Office Web A
Apps from yoour SkyDrive, select the rrelevant iconn near the to
op of the screen, eenter a name for the file you are aboout to create
e and click ‘Sa
ave’. The packkage will theen open. To ssave any chaanges that yo
ou make, sele
ect the ‘Savee As’ option iin the File men
nu. 5 Photos To creatte photo albu
ums select ‘Y
Your albums’’ from the ‘P
Photos’ link. Clicck on ‘Add files’. To creatte a new albu
um select the ‘New album
m’ icon. Ente
er a name for yourr album and cclick ‘Next’. You can now drag an
nd drop photto files or brrowse to filess on your photos from your compu
uter’. computeer by clickingg on ‘select p
Click thee ‘Continue’ button. You photo will n ow be on yo
our SkyDrivee. Deletingg files To delette files from your SkyDrivve, navigate tto the file yo
ou want to delete. Hoverr over the file
e and select th
he informatio
on icon o
on the right. Click on the ‘Delete’ option. n deleting fi les as once d
deleted, they
y cannot be recovered. Please be ccareful when
Changin
ng your passw
word note: Passwo
ords are syncchronised witth the Collegge systems. To change yoour passworrd you Please n
need to log into a Co
ollege PC and
d change it f rom the Win
ndows 7 deskktop by presssing CTRL, ALT and a Password’.. DEL and then selectiing ‘Change a
Getting Support als within thee system, jusst click the he
elp icon to acccess it. There arre extensive help/tutoria
be found at: http://exploore.live.com//windows‐livve‐skydrive‐hhelp‐center More heelp can also b
member of thhe Flexible Learning Centtre/Library teeam for further Alternattively please speak to a m
support. 6