This shows teachers how to share documents quickly and easily using Skype.

1. How to fileshare using Skype
By Fiona Beal

2. Skype is fantastic for sharing
large files
Skype is fantastic for quick file-sharing. I recently
discovered that a file that is too big for email will
go easily with Skype.

3. Step 1: Join Skype free
Skype is a marvellous way of keeping in touch
with others. You can use it as follows:
• with a webcam (which I normally don’t)
• as a phone call
• as a chat box

4. Join Skype here

5. Step 2: Invite contacts
To add a Skype contact:
• Click on Contacts / new contact
• In the new screen fill is as much information
as you have
• Skype will come up with a suggestion which
you will recognise.
• Skype will send them an invite which they
have to agree to

6. Look for a
contact

7. Usually putting the
person’s name is
sufficient for Skype to
find them

8. Step 3: Send them a document
To add a document:
• Click on their name to pen the chat box.
• Open the folder where the document is stored.
Click on the Restore/Down button to minimise it a
bit so that you can drag the document across
• Open Skype and also click on the Restore/Down
button to minimise your screen a bit.
• Drag the document into the chat box.

9. The two places open
side by side after
clicking Restore/Down
on each one

10. This is a great way to share files if you are at
somebody’s house and you don’t have a flash drive. I
was at a friend’s house and we each needed a large
document from one another…too big for email. I shared
mine with my friend and she shared hers with me all in
one hit by dragging the documents into the chat box!
She shared
I shared hers with
with her by me by
dragging dragging
mine hers across
across on on her
my screen. screen

11. Step 4: Save the file on your
computer
• From there it is a just a case of saving the
document on your computer.
• Once you have done that Skype will even
show you where the folder is located on your
computer.

12. I have now
saved it.
This is
where I put
it.

13. Give it a try!