Sharing a Google Document

In my last post, I shared how people who haven't used Google Drive can access it from their account. In the next few posts, I'm going to show some of the ins and outs of Drive and the other Google Apps for Education (GAFE).

How to Share a Document:

There are a few ways to share a document. The first way would be to share the document directly from your Google Drive. In order to share, you simply click on the file and choose the share icon at the top, or you can right click on the file and click on the same icon.

Google Apps for Education (GAFE)

There seem to be two camps in our school district when it comes to Google Drive, those who love
it and have embraced it, and those who don’t understand how it works and treat it as if it is some magical place. To try and clarify it for the second group, I’ll start out by asking how many of your use the shared drive at work?

Many of the people who have shown concern over the idea of saving files to the cloud have no qualms about saving files in our shared drive, an offsite server, which is pretty much the same thing. Over the next few weeks, I’m going to be sharing tips and tricks on how to use some of the Google Apps for Education (GAFE) such as Google Docs (think MS Word), Sheets (MS Excel), Slides (MS Powerpoint), and Forms. While there are quite a few differences between the Microsoft and Google versions of these programs, and while the Microsoft versions are far superior in some aspects, many people won’t notice much difference switching from the old standby to the cloud based GAFE versions.