Skill 3: Google My Drive & Shared Drives

Core Skill 3: Google Drive & Shared Drives

With Google My Drive and Shared Drives, you can create, store, share and collaborate on files with others, even in real time.  Keeping track of your individual and shared files and folders is an important part of using Google My Drive and Shared Drives. The skills in this section that can help you be a better team member as we work together with limited time!

Google My Drive & Shared Drive skills

• Understand when to use My Drive and Shared Drives

• Create, open, share Docs, Sheets, and Slides

• Upload files with and without conversion

• Navigate and manage files in Google Drive using a local folder on your PC 

• Use Google Drive’s “Manage Versions”  function to prevent duplicate copies of documents

• Share files via Google Drive

• Transfer ownership of a file in My Drive

• Retain Google My Drive files after collaborators leave the University