wazmac || Google Drive | innovative schools

Think of Google Drive as your ‘universal’ Home folder – all your files accessible from everywhere, on any device.

Rather than saving files to your Home folder on a file-server at school or in the office, or copying them to a USB drive to transfer to another location, Google Drive provides a storage area that is accessible from anywhere there is an Internet connection, on computers or mobile devices.

Students and staff can access documents in Google Drive from any computer or iPad in school or at home, without the school needing to maintain a file server (with external access) to authenticate users and store student and staff files.

Wazza’s Quickstarts
	Getting started with Drive Create an account and setup new folders in your Google Drive.
	Sharing Google Docs with others (pdf) An introductory guide to sharing your Google Docs, Slides and Sheets with others, for either viewing or editing.
	Organising files in your Shared with me folder You can ‘move’ documents that have been shared with you into any other Drive folder.
Other Utilities, How-to Guides and resources…
	Sharing student folders Set up a shared folder structure within Drive for students to easily share files with their teachers.
	Adding a file to multiple folders The process is a little different in the ‘new’ version of Drive.
	Google Drive overview Complete overview of Google Drive – from Google.
	Drive & Gmail Insert files from Google Drive in emails, rather than using attachments.
	Offline access Setup offline access to files stored on Google Drive. Requires Chrome.
	Microsoft Office – Drive Plug-in This plug-in makes it easy to edit Office files stored in Google Drive.

	Martin’s Complete Guide to Google Drive

	Protect your shared documents (prevent printing, copying, saving a copy, etc)

	Get notified of changes in your shared folders

	Create a Google dropbox folder in Drive (that anyone can drop files in)

	Transfer ownership of documents in Drive

	Sync files between Google Drive and Dropbox