Why Google?
Interested In Collaboration, Sharing, & Document Access Anywhere / Anytime?
- If Yes - Then Stay!
- Google Apps is for you!
- If No - Leave Now!
- Or stay and we will convince you
What is "The Cloud"?
Benefits
Limitations
- Access files anywhere with an Internet connection
- Collaborate with one other or 100 others on a document
- Save your files to your hard drive as Microsoft, Open Office, or PDF (not stuck with proprietary file type, i.e. Microsoft)
- Embed and/or share finished files with others
- Must be connected to the Internet (Unless you have the Offline Chrome Extension!)
- Can't format as precisely as with Office
Key Features:
- A full suite of tools - word processing, presentations, spreadsheets, forms, and drawing
- Managed within Google Drive
- Access anywhere, on any machine
- Multi-person, simultaneous editing
- Saves automatically
- Teacher can track progress in real time
- Total document history
- Translation to many languages
- Ability to publish docs for all or some
- Share docs with others to view, comment, or edit
- Synchronous and asynchronous communication within a document
- Export and import Office documents, PDFs, and more