College of North West London Student Portal

College of North West London Student Portal
Accessing Your Files and Email in the Cloud
Student portal
CNWL has developed a student portal to provide streamlined access to the online resources that
students use during their time with the college.
The portal opens up as in the screen image above, and is immediately accessible when the students
log in to a College computer.
The student portal can also be accessed externally and on mobile devices myday.student.cnwl.ac.uk
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Accessing email in the student portal
At a touch of tile you are already logged in to your email, and as it is a live tile it keeps you updated
when new mail comes in
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Opening, saving and editing your documents in the student portal
Student can open their personal and shared documents by clicking respectively on: OneDrive and
Student Shared Area icons.
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To create a new document using web portal:
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The new document doesn’t have to be saved, the background process saves automatically all newly
created documents. The new document will be marked with a little green star when you access your
OneDrive:
You can click on any document to highlight it and then delete, edit, rename it by clicking on manage.
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Opening and saving documents from within the College using Office 2013
To open a personal document you need to open your OneDrive from your Computer:
…or from the Office 2013 by going to:
File – Open – OneDrive _College of North West London – Browse – Documents.
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To open a document from the college shared drive: click on File – Open – Site_College of North West
London – Browse – Students Shared Area.
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In order to save a document to your college OneDrive you need to: click on File – Save as – OneDrive
– College of North West London – Browse – Documents.
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You can also save your documents by dragging and dropping them into OneDrive. You will see it in
your Computer:
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Dragging a document from the desktop….
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Dragged and dropped document:
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How to access the student portal externally
To access your e-mails and documents from home enter the following address in your web browser:
myday.student.cnwl.ac.uk
In the security box log in with your student number and password (make sure you put Student\ in
front of your student number :
Student\your studentnumber
Your password
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From this screen you can navigate to your e-mails (Outlook), your documents (OneDrive) or shared
drive by clicking respectively on Outlook, OneDrive or Sites on the red bar or on the colourful icons:
Your Outlook Mail:
Your Documents:
Student Shared Area:
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If you need to upload/save any home documents onto your One Drive, you can do so by clicking on
the Upload icon, browse to your file and click ok
To create a new document, you need to click on new and select a type of document:
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…and create a new document
The new document doesn’t have to be saved, the background process saves automatically all newly
created documents. The new document will be marked with a little green star when you access your
OneDrive:
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You can once click on any document to highlight it and then delete, edit, rename it by clicking on
manage.
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Student Advantage and Office 365 Pro Plus
Every student enrolled in the college is entitled to free access to Office 2013 at home and outside
the college. This offer is only valid while enrolled on courses at the college
Every student of the college can down load a copy of office to use on their home computer which
will be active until you leave the college
Office 365 ProPlus for PC .
Office 365 ProPlus for Mac
To install office log on to: myday.student.cnwl.ac.uk from home on the computer you wish to install
office. When you are logged on click the gear symbol top left and select “Office 365 settings”
Next click on “Software Install and manage software” on the left hand side.
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For windows select your version of operating system 32bit or 64bit. If not sure leave as 32 bit and
click install
For Mac just click the install button.
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