Downloading a copy of your iCloud files as a student leaver

This article describes downloading content from your school iCloud account so that it remains available to you after you leave CVC.

1. From home and using a personal device with an internet connection, go to icloud.com and sign in with your school account

2. The iCloud dashboard shows the 3 areas with content that you may wish to preserve - Drive, Photos and Notes.

3. Drive

Select browse to see your iCloud files and folders. To download a copy of a file, select the file and choose download. You can select multiple items by dragging a box or holding ctrl. Unfortunately it is not possible to download folders. To preserve files within folders you will need to open the folder and select the files inside for download.

4. Photos

Select any photos you wish to keep (for multiple, drag a box or hold ctrl while selecting) then choose download

5. Notes

Open any notes you wish to keep, right click on the note and choose 'Save as image' or the equivalent for your web browser. Note that notes can only be saved as images and text on the note will be part of the image.