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Collaborate and Share
Collaborate and share with Google
One of the greatest benefits of using Google Workspace for Education is the ability to collaborate with peers and teachers on a document in real-time, or at different times, making collaboration convenient. In this lesson, you will learn more about how to use Google to collaborate effectively.
Collaborating on Drive
There are different levels of access you can assign in Google Drive:
Editor: Invites people to directly edit your document.
Commenter: Invites people to make comments or suggest changes to your document, but won’t allow them to actually make those changes.
Viewer: Invites people to view your file, but not to comment or make changes.
Watch this video to learn more:
Share your live document
The biggest difference between other productivity software and Google Workspace for Education is the concept of a live document. With live document sharing, you can share documents with your teacher and with others for peer feedback or group projects. With a live document, there is only one version and edits are made in real-time.
When you, or someone you are collaborating with, make a change to the document, those changes are all saved in the same place for everyone to see. Instead of an offline, desktop-based document, you can work together with other students or teachers in real-time.
Note: When you share a live document for collaboration, you will need to give your recipients Editor access.
Try it out
Create a new copy of a document and share it by following the steps in the video:
Knowledge Check
To receive credit for this lesson, you will:
Open Drive
In the folder you created for this class, find the document named 1234
Create a copy of the document in the folder in your Drive
Leave the file name as Copy of 1234
Share the document to your teacher, giving them Editor rights
Ensure that the Notify people box is checked and enter Manage Your Files in the Message box
Click Send to share the document
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