Community reviews for WPS Office

Unlike many expressly educational apps, WPS brings "grown-up" digital productivity to students in learning environments where computer and internet access are limited or absent, a situation characteristic of the majority of classrooms across the globe. Through streamlined WPS apps, students can be introduced to file formats, operations and functions applicable in more sophisticated computing environments. Unburdened by feature bloat, WPS Office loads quickly, rarely crashes and provides automatic file back-up. Not bad for a free app. If future versions can support PPT audio/video, WPS will be a powerful tool for flipping the classroom.

WPS Office provides an easy way to use an iPad to edit and create documents that normally would be done with Microsoft Office. It has strong tools for the creation and editing of documents, however it is lacking in providing implementation for students who have Office 365/OneDrive accounts created on the business side. A user can link Dropbox, Google Drive, and any number of online, cloud storage services, but the lack of One Drive for Business (which is provided in enterprise Office 365 setups) makes this a no go for my students (who have accounts in Office 365 provided by our state Department of Education). Overall, it is a nice alternative to Microsoft's own apps, but without support for One Drive for Business from and Office 365 setup, it would be just as easy to download and use the Microsoft apps in the classroom.