As you reluctantly come back from vacation and return to your regular school schedules, you might need a jumpstart to get you back into your routines.

What kind of school work will you need to do? Write a report with an MLA-formatted bibliography? Or collaborate on a presentation? How are your math skills?

I've pulled together 20 Office tips to help you get back in the school groove.

Today's blog post is brought to you by Stephanie Brown. Stephanie is a writer for Office Mobile and Office for Mac.

Don’t want to lug your heavy laptop with you to class? You don’t have to. Your Windows Phone 7 includes Microsoft OneNote Mobile. With it you can create and view notes and lists right on your phone. When you’re done with class, you can go back to the comfort of your big PC screen and find your mobile notes synced to Windows Live SkyDrive.

No matter if you’re using OneNote on your computer, mobile phone, or if you’re using the OneNote Web App from a browser, all of your notes are synced together. You can literally keep your class notes with you anywhere you go.

Read the full post for how to start using OneNote Mobile.

Meet Kelvin Dueck, a physics and math teacher at Pitt Meadows Secondary School. Kelvin wanted a way to share his math answer keys and physics notes with his students. That way his students could access help and extend their learning outside of traditional classroom walls. He was looking for a virtual hard drive. He was looking for Windows Live SkyDrive.

Read the full blog post and listen to Kelvin's testimonial. You'll be inspired!

College graduates will tackle the job market soon. What better way to stand out from the crowd than to have a software app release on your resume?

DreamSpark, a program set up by Microsoft to provide professional-level developer and design tools to students around the world for free, recently partnered with Windows Phone 7.

That means you can download the components that you need to complete your development environment and start making your own Windows Phone 7 apps. Links and details are available in the full blog post.

Want to build your own molecule image and add it to your research paper? Or how about add subscripts and superscripts to electrons and isotopes? Today, you can. Microsoft Research just released version 1.0 of their Chemistry Add-in for Word.

Read the full blog post to find out more about this new revelation in semantic chemistry.

Whatever your philosophy on test taking, they haven’t been abolished yet. So get prepared! Don’t just madly cram for a test the night before. You can do better than that. Get organized!

While you’re in class taking notes, use a special tag to mark the material you know (or think) you’ll be tested on. Then focus your exam prep time on those notes. OneNote gives you an easy way to do that; it’s called a tag.

I recommend creating a custom tag in OneNote called “Exam material”.

Find out how!

I recently asked a group of students about how and when they use Office Web Apps. Based on their feedback, I've got some advice on how they can help you.

Read the full post to find out when others are using Office Web Apps to get ahead in school.

Patrick Harless, an algebra and geometry teacher at Fay School in Southborough, Massachusetts, uses the inking capability of a Tablet PC and Microsoft OneNote to work through math concepts with his students. In an issue of Mathematics Teacher, a monthly periodical put out by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Harless analyzes this process of "scribing"--a new technology-based instructional strategy.

Not a math teacher? That's okay. Any teacher could implement these scribing best practices.  

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Kristin Beck, a writer and editor at Office.com, offers personal advice to students with ADHD about study habits, deadlines, and taking exams.

As finals approach, many students are feeling an intense pressure to perform. I know, because I went through it as a student with (yet undiagnosed) ADHD. The pain and frustration of being behind with my work still stings, 25 years later. I’ve picked up some good habits over the years, however, which I will share with you.