Google Drive- storage and file sharing

Storage and document access/sharing is often an issue and it's easy to end up having USB sticks all over the place and the the one you actually want. Documents can also get lost when they are emailed and you might want to limit access to something. That's where Google Drive might help.

If you have a gmail account, you have a Google Drive account - you just need to enter your email login details (as for YouTube, blogger...any other google owned product).

The DRIVE is an online storage facility that you can then access from anywhere with the internet and share documents if you would like to. You simply log onto your drive and then upload a new file from your computer.

If you want to create folders of documents then you can (New Folder) or even upload a whole folder of documents from your computer (Folder Upload).

If you then want to share these documents with someone, you can get a 'shareable' link by clicking on the share icon (body with + sign)

You may want to make the file public or just visible to specific people, or for others to download and even edit. You specify this when you have clicked on the share icon...

The link that is then available to copy can be simply emailed as a link or embedded into a blog for students to download.

If you want people to be able to edit it, then they can open in Google Docs [there will be a separate post on this]