What is a SkyDrive?
Union County College supplies all students with storage space for their documents through Microsoft
Windows Live SkyDrive. This will replace your current M: drive that is located on the Union County College
local server.
Windows Live SkyDrive is a file hosting service that allows users to upload files to a cloud storage area and
then access them from a web browser. Simply put, the cloud storage is an off site server that your files are
being stored on. You will be able to access these files from any computer with internet access.
Your SkyDrive has 25GB of personal storage, with individual files limited to 50 MB.
Copying files from Your M: drive to your Skydrive
Log into a Lab pc on campus with your CWID username
Open your browser and in the address bar type office.live.com
This will bring you to the login screen for your SkyDrive
Enter your Windows Live ID which is your new email address [email protected] and password
Ex. If your username is john.doe your windows Live ID would be [email protected]
Enter your Windows Live password which is your new account password that you use to get into Web Services
Take the check mark out of remember me by clicking on box.
Click on Sign in
If this is your first time logging into your Live account you will see the following screen. Input your year of Birth (ie.
1991) and choose the United States as the country. Click on “I accept” button. (You will only see this screen the first
time you access this account).
Click on Add files
Click on My Documents
This will open up the My Documents folder on your SkyDrive
Click on select documents from your computer
On the folder list on left side click on your M: drive
Select the file or files you want to copy. If you want to copy all of your files at once select the first file by single clicking
on the file and then holding the Shift key single click on the last file and all of the files will be highlighted.
Click Open
You will see the files being transferred
Click Continue
Your files are now uploaded to your sky drive. To upload from any other drive you would follow these instructions but
would choose the drive where the file exists. You can also choose to drag and drop files into your SkyDrive. To do so
you would single click on the file and while still holding the button you can drag it over to the SkyDrive and let go of the
mouse button.