Learn more about the Difference between My Drive and Shared Drive
Learn more about the Types of access that you can assign for members in Shared Drives.
Learn more about Shared Drive limitations in Google Drive
Overview of Shared Drives
Members roles and Permissions
Adding & Managing Members:
File and Folder Management
Search and Settings:
Details, Descriptions, and Activity Tracking
Hiding Shared Drives
If you’re working on a project or event with a group of staff who all need access to the same set of files.
When most of your files are shared with the same group of staff and teams
If your files share a consistent theme or topic. Eg: Project, Proposal, Template. etc..
The content you want to store isn’t personal and is of interest to a specific team or group or the entire organisation.
Projects—For people involved in the same project.
Events—For people working for a defined period of time on a specific event or deliverable.
Templates—For all files that staff can copy and reuse.
Organisation-wide files—For files everyone needs access to, such as training files, information, process, policy, guidelines
Sensitive - Confidential files—For highly sensitive files, where you can add extra security to limit access.
Contact ITSupport and request a Shared Drive
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