Introduction: ensuring the modern quality of education is largely determined by the implementation of the competence-based approach in the learning process and the systematic identification of the level of formation of competencies. In most research papers, competence is interpreted as an integral characteristic of the student, reflecting his ability to use the entire set of existing knowledge, skills, abilities, experience, and personal qualities to solve emerging problems. In the new Federal State Educational Standards of Higher Education, all competences are divided into universal, general professional and professional. The article is devoted to the search for ways of forming universal and general professional competencies of future bachelors of pedagogical education with the help of network social services within the framework of students' classroom and extracurricular activities. Materials and methods: when writing the article, the following methods were used-analysis of domestic and foreign literature, comparative analysis, pedagogical experiment. Results: the experience of the implementation of the competence-based approach with the help of network social services in teaching future bachelors of the "Pedagogical education" training course at Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University is presented. The possible uses of the network of social services in the framework of the module "Information Technology" and discipline "Information technologies in education", as well as through extracurricular activities of students. Examples of using hypertext creation services, joint editing of documents, joint search and storage of information, on-line visualization, etc. are given. The didactic potential of students' project activities is analyzed using networked social services within the framework of the educational information environment of the main professional educational program.