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Google Docs 202- Sharing and Collaborating

• Sharing Settings on Google Docs

• Watch/Read: How to share GoogleDocs - Google Privacy Tips

• Details Pane

• Edit and view privileges

• Visibility settings

• Share a Link with View Only Access

• Share and access docs in your school

• Individuals at school

• Groups at school

• Everyone at school

• Share docs outside your school

• Saving and working with revisions

• Collaborating on Google Docs

  • Real time editing

  • Chat conversation while viewing a Google Doc

    • Chat Conversation NOT available in Revision History

  • Comments (Feedback and Revision)

    • Comments ARE available in Revision History

• Comment Notifications

• Copying a Document

• Create a static copy of a document

  • View Only

• Revision History

Activity #2: Privacy, Commenting, Chatting and Sharing

1. Share the document with a second neighbor (on your left) and give them commenting rights.

2. Share the document with your workshop leader and give them viewing rights.

3. Add two more questions for your neighbor (on your right) to answer while they are working in the document. (Real time editing)

4. Chat with your neighbor (on your right)

5. Respond to your first neighbor's answers (on your left) by using the Comments feature.

6. Change the document back the first set of questions using the Revision history.

Google’s Educator Training Site

• Google Docs Basics

• Google Drive Basics

Google Docs in the Classroom

Explore Google Docs and learn how this suite of services can be utilized for productivity, communication and collaboration in the classroom. This webinar will also include a tour of the recent updates, classroom management strategies and a "Top 10" tips.

Google Docs 303- Organizing and Storing Files

• Unlimited Storage

  • Organization of Google Docs

• Search for a Document

  • Using Filters

  • Reorder the results

• Search within a PDF

• Rename a document

  • Documents in more than one collection

• Even more navigation and sharing functions in Google Drive

Activity #3

• • Search for a document from your neighbor based on criteria such as:

    • Name of document

    • Last modified

    • Owner of the document

  • Star the document from your neighbor to highlight a document.

  • Create a folder entitled "Google Docs Workshop by YOUR NAME" (e.g. Google Docs Workshop by Joe Smith)

  • Place all of the Google Docs from the workshop into the folder by:

    • Opening the document, selecting the folder icon, and moving them into the appropriate folder.

    • In the table of contents, checking the documents in the list view and moving them into the appropriate folder.

• Share your folder and give your neighbor "View Only" rights

  • Find the folder shared from your neighbor (Hint: Check the "Shared with me" link.

Google Docs 404 - Templates, Printing

• Publish a Template

• Copy a Template

• Make a copy (Publish View Only Link) >Sharing a document

• Printing a Document

Activity #5

• Open the Google Docs Business Office Templates

• Select the Inter-Campus Mileage Log Template

  • Find an Academic Template

  • Publish a template

Google Docs 505 - Gmail + Docs

• Email docs as attachments

• Email contents of document

• Open a MS-Office file as a Google Doc

Activity #6

• • Send a doc as an attachment

Doing More with Google Docs

Go beyond the basics of Google Docs and learn how to do some more advanced:

• Formatting with tables

• Bookmark

• Footnotes