Embedding Google Drive Ninja Tricks

Use these directions to embed any shared folder off your Google Drive within your courses!  

Harness the power of Google Drive's storage and sharing capabilities, while being integrated with the flexibility and power of your Learning Management System!  

Ninja trick:  Notice you don't have to restrict yourself to just using the feature set of one tool, but rather build synergy amongst the tools at your disposal!

Special shout out to master teacher Kris Frees for showing me the embedded Folder view of his math handouts!

Google Drive Sample Embed Code

Use this sample embed code for you to embed a Google Drive folder / file into Moodle or Canvas (replace with your folder ID):

• Go the Sharing settings in Google Drive to find the file/folder ID--change share settings to "Anyone with the link can view" and copy the ID into the sample embed code below:

• Folder / List View

<p><iframe src="https://drive.google.com/embeddedfolderview?id=0B5h4DicYhhOQekUyQkc3TXFkUDA" width="100%" height="400" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>

• Grid View (just add #grid to code)--looks much nicer!!!

<p><iframe src="https://drive.google.com/embeddedfolderview?id=0B1ov2iEDk7AbbkNIc2t1ci16RDg#grid" width="100%" height="400" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>