You may have heard of DropBox, Google Drive, and iCloud Drive among other cloud "drives". OneDrive is one of them, as the name renders obvious. What exactly is a "drive"? When mentioned in this context, a drive is an online storage service for a user's files. The purpose of a drive is to allow the user to access these stored files from any location. The term "cloud" is a general term referring to all of these online drive services both for consumer and enterprise use.

     OneDrive can be useful to both students and teachers. OneDrive offers the following for students:

• Uploading homework online
• Organizing projects online with classmates

     OneDrive also offers the following to teachers

• Share copies of assignments to multiple students
• Access presentation, private videos, and with cloud storage
• Provided a free, online version of Microsoft Powerpoint, Word etc.

Example OneDrive Layout

In the above screenshot, most of OneDrive's features are displayed. The user interface is sleek and easy-to-use, and teachers will not have problems becoming adept OneDrive user.

This screencast demonstrates the separate menus in OneDrive that show all of its useful features:

     Evernote is a very popular app – it has 4/5 stars on the iOS app store with 146 review –  and it offers many different services relating to the concept of note-taking. You can keep all of your notes in the cloud while also making them easily available to other people. Overall, it is versatile and general in its capabilities.