Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Team Drives in Google Drive

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Team Drives is now turned on in our G Suite for Education Accounts

What is Team Drives?

Team Drives is a shared space where teams can easily store, search, and access their files anywhere, from any device. Unlike files in My Drive, files in a Team Drive belong to the team instead of an individual.

How is Team Drives different from M: drive or other shared drives?

  1. Created and administered by anyone given access 
  2. All documents are "owned" collectively
  3. Changes to files are changed for everyone


Why create a team drive?

  1. Share files relevant to most or all of a department, team or collaborative group (co-teachers, colleagues teaching the same class, etc.)
  2. Organize files with a consistent theme.

Get Started:  Go to drive and right click on Team Drives

Set Permissions:  Right click on the name of the drive you created


Caveats:  

  • Once a document is placed in Team Drives...it is owned by the group.  Make a copy of a personal file before placing in Team Drives
  • Certain files types like google maps cannot be stored in Team Drives
  • Team Drives is NOT turned on for students.  In most cases, you can create a folder in My Drive and share it with students, giving them either edit or view only access.
Follow this link for more tutorials on Team Drives

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