Drive/Docs

Google Drive is a cloud storage system that links into all other of the G Suite Products. From here you can create folders and subfolders and organise all your files. All the files types you make are automatically saved into your Drive and you can share files directly from here. You can upload files like pdfs and convert them into Google file types. You can access Google Drive from anywhere, making all your files easily accessible.

Google Docs is a word processing document that you can type into, add pictures, videos, charts and drawings into. You can search directly from inside Google Docs and create citations automatically. Everything saves automatically, so there is no need to worry about continuously hitting the save button and if you wish to, you can return to any of the previous changes that have been made. Most amazingly, several people can work on one document in real time and from different locations, making collaboration simple.

For Drive, in the exam you are expected to be able to:

Create and name a folder
Create subfolders within that folder
Make Slides, Docs, Forms straight from Drive
Share files and folders with others
Enable offline storage
Move folders into different places in your Drive
Upload files and folders from your computer
Delete files

For Docs, in the exam you are expected to be able to:

Create a doc from Drive
Share your Doc with someone else and allow them different rights e.g. editing, commenting
Make comments on what has been written
Assign comments to someone
Review all comments
Add drawings, charts etc
Check the changes made to a doc using revision history and restore an old version
Search from within a doc

Here is a link to Unit 3, Sections 1 and 2 (Move your files into Drive/Make fewer class copies) from the Google Certified Educator Level 1 training page which covers all of the training you are expected to know about Drive and Docs. There is another link to Docs in Unit 12, section 1 and 2 (Using Google Docs and Drive to motivate collaboration/Check contributions to group work).

This are videos by Frank Avella. He has many videos that cover each unit on the Google Fundamentals course. These videos cover Drive and Docs, there are others available on his YouTube channel.

These are an excellent videos by Brett Petrillo which show you the things you need to know about Docs and Drive for the Level 1 exam. On Video 7 only half of this video is about Drive. There were made several years ago now, so you may find some of the information is not fully up to date.

This is the Google Slides presentation that we use in our bootcamp to teach Google Drive and Google Docs. Feel free to use it to refresh your memory of all the things you have learnt.

Drive and Docs

Feel ready to test your knowledge on Drive and Docs Here is a link to the training centre's knowledge test and also a challenge to practice what you have learnt. Our thanks to Jonathan Frye for the ideas for the challenges.

Let's Do It - Drive

Let's Do It - Docs

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