I had a few questions today about locating your saved documents when it's time to upload them to Pearson. Here's the lowdown:
If you are using the college license for Office (ie, if you are signed in to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and/or Teams with your student email - studentnumber@vacc.college) then it will likely default to saving your documents to the associated Office cloud storage, OneDrive. (The "cloud" is online storage for your files. Other cloud apps include DropBox and Google Drive.)
When you go to search for the file to upload, you are searching your computer, not your OneDrive account. This is why, in most cases, you are having difficulty locating your edited files. I recommend saving your completed files to your computer. You can also rename them to make it extra clear which file is which, helping to avoid uploading incomplete files.
The process is slightly different for Mac vs Windows, but here's the gist:
With the file open, click the name of the file. It will be above the ribbon. This will open a small window which shows the name of the file and, crucially, the save location. You want to click the expander button and select "Save to my Mac" or "Save to my PC."
You can also click on the File tab > Save a Copy. If it says "Save a Copy" instead of "Save As," you know it's set to save to the cloud. Use the "Save a Copy" option to save the file to your computer.
I recommend putting a clear, searchable term in the file name for all of your files that are ready to upload. For example, you could use the course code (MSE, MSW) or the word "Grader."
If you are having difficulty, please utilize office hour.
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