What is Google DRIVE?
Google Drive is a freemium cloud storage service that is integrated with the company's other services and systems -- including Google Docs, Gmail, Android, Chrome, YouTube, Picassa, Google Video, Google Analytics and Google+ . It compares to Microsoft's SkyDrive. Dropbox, and iCloud.
• Drive is part of the suite. Too many people were saying Google Docs was the suite.
• Can be set up to sync to your computer so that you can work on and offline on your documents. BUT, must have OS 10.6 or higher to do this.
• Can download Google DRIVE app on your mobile devices and have access to all of your stuff.
• Have 5 GB of space available. And it's not counting your google files only the others you upload like docs, pdf, jpg, etc.
•You do need to drag shared folders to your Drive in order to best use these folders/files. It is the opposite of what we did in the past with Google Docs.
THINGS YOU MIGHT LIKE
•Can now remove shared documents from your list in drive
•Can put an open file into a folder
•Files put in folder aren't showing on your drive list
•Can sync with your computer if setup
• Drive is part of the suite. Too many people were saying Google Docs was the suite.
• Can be set up to sync to your computer so that you can work on and offline on your documents. BUT, must have OS 10.6 or higher to do this.
• Can download Google DRIVE app on your mobile devices and have access to all of your stuff.
• Have 5 GB of space available. And it's not counting your google files only the others you upload like docs, pdf, jpg, etc.
•You do need to drag shared folders to your Drive in order to best use these folders/files. It is the opposite of what we did in the past with Google Docs.
THINGS YOU MIGHT LIKE
•Can now remove shared documents from your list in drive
•Can put an open file into a folder
•Files put in folder aren't showing on your drive list
•Can sync with your computer if setup
Sources for help and knowledge
Shifting Google Into Drive
https://sites.google.com/site/toolsclass/section-3-main-tools/drive
GCF Learn Free
http://www.gcflearnfree.org/googledriveanddocs
Google Drive Help
https://www.google.com/intl/en_US/drive/start/index.html
Shifting Google Into Drive
https://sites.google.com/site/toolsclass/section-3-main-tools/drive
GCF Learn Free
http://www.gcflearnfree.org/googledriveanddocs
Google Drive Help
https://www.google.com/intl/en_US/drive/start/index.html