For colleges

For sixth-form, FE and community colleges.

Self-service M365 export for college cohorts leaving for university, apprenticeship or work — built around the realities of portfolio-based assessment.

Why colleges are a particularly good fit

Portfolio-based qualifications — BTEC, T-Levels, NCFE, apprenticeship standards, vocational diplomas — generate substantial file output across two years of study. Universities, higher apprenticeship providers and employers regularly ask former students for portfolio evidence months after they've left.

Without a leaver-friendly export workflow, students either lose the work or spend hours rebuilding it from screenshots and memory. Neither outcome reflects well on the college.

What gets exported

  • OneDrive — portfolio files, coursework drafts, presentations, every Word / Excel / PowerPoint they made.
  • Class OneNote notebooks — the student's own section group from each class, with all in-class notes and teacher-annotated work.
  • Personal OneNote notebooks — exam revision, self-organised notes, anything they put in their personal notebooks.

How it fits with college IT workflows

  • Multi-tenant app, single consent: thirty seconds for a tenant admin (Cloud Application Administrator or Global Admin role required).
  • Read-only scopes: cannot write to your tenant, cannot delete files, cannot share content externally.
  • Conditional Access compatible: tenants' MFA / device-compliance / location policies apply to sign-ins to mydocs.school exactly as they do to Outlook or Teams.
  • Audit log: searchable record of every download for compliance.

Suggested rollout cycle

  1. Onboard during a quiet term — January or February usually works. Thirty seconds for IT, then dormant until needed.
  2. Surface to students in their final term. A line on the college intranet, a paragraph in the leaver email, mention at the final assembly.
  3. Spike of usage in the last fortnight of term. Seats consumed as students download.
  4. Quiet through the summer, with a long tail of students who realise in August or September and come back to download.
  5. Renew or right-size at the start of the next year based on actual seat consumption.

Common questions

Does this cover BTEC, T-Level and apprenticeship portfolios?
Yes. Those are file-based portfolios that typically sit in the student's OneDrive (and sometimes in shared SharePoint sites). The OneDrive export captures the portfolio; SharePoint-hosted shared content needs to be downloaded separately if the student co-authored it.
What about students enrolled in shared programmes with universities?
The export is scoped to your tenant. If a student also has a separate account on a partner university's tenant, that's a separate sign-in. They'd export each tenant independently.
Do we need to onboard separately from a parent multi-academy trust?
It depends on whether you share a Microsoft 365 tenant. Same tenant = single onboarding covers the whole trust. Separate tenants = separate onboardings, each taking about 30 seconds.