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The assignments that you don’t complete directly online will most likely be completed using a word processing program such as Microsoft Word. For example, you may be asked to write an essay and turn it in directly to your instructor. To do this, you would use a word processing program to write your paper, save the file, and then upload it to your instructor.

If you don’t have a word processing program installed on your machine and your institution doesn’t require a specific program, you can choose from multiple online word processing applications nowadays. You may want to consider using an application such as Google Docs or Word (Microsoft 365). The biggest difference between these two web-based applications is that Google is free and Microsoft 365 requires a paid annual subscription. Both come with a suite of programs that include a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation applications. They both also allow the sharing of files and collaboration in real time. This means that you and a peer can edit the same document at the same time from different computers in different locations.