Google Takeout - Transferring Files from Drive

Graduating Seniors and Staff Not Returning - Don't forget to take your files!!!

So you are graduating, retiring or leaving the district, what do you do with your Drive? Being a Google Apps for Education School, all files created within our wabeno.k12.wi.us domain cannot have ownership transferred to another account. Therefore, sharing your documents from your current account to a different Google Account will not work. Here's the solution: Google Takeout. This service by Google will extract all of your Google files within the wabeno.k12.wi.us domain to a zipped folder that you can upload into your new Google Account. 

A couple of tips before you start:

        * Focus primarily on your Google Drive account, don't worry so much about emails or other Google Data.

        * Set your NEW Drive up to "Convert Uploaded Documents to Docs" in your settings for Drive. Google Takeout pulls all files into a Word or Excel            file, so this will save you time in the future. 

        * Complete this from a personal computer - not a school issued Chromebook!

Here's how: 

1. Go to Google Takeout. 

2. Create a new/personal Google Account if you already haven't.

3. Follow the prompting instructions. Watch a short tutorial here.