Peculiarities of cloud computing use in the process of the first-year students' adaptive potential development

Technologies based on cloud computing is one of the demanded and actively developing areas of the modern
information world. Cloud computing refers to an innovative technology that allows you to combine IT resources
of vari-ous hardware platforms into a single whole and provide the user with access to them via a local
network or the global Internet. Cloud services from vari-ous providers offer users access to their resources via
the Internet via free or shareware cloud applications, the hardware and software requirements of which do not
imply that the user has high-performance and resource-consuming computers. Cloud technologies represent a
new way of organiz-ing the educational process and offers an alternative to traditional methods of organizing
the educational process, creates an opportunity for personal learning, collective teaching, interactive classes,
and the organization of psy-chological support. The scientific article is devoted to the problem of inte-grating
cloud technologies not only in the process of training highly qualified specialists, but also in the formation of
professionally important personality traits. The article describes the experience of introducing cloud technologies
into the process of forming the adaptive potential of students in conditions of social constraints caused by
the covid-19 pandemic.