Lessons Learnerd (So far)

Lessons Learned

Creating a folder:

When you click on Create

A menu will appear with choices of what to create. Folder should be the first choice.

Select Folder.

You will then be prompted to name your folder.

The folder will appear in a list in the My Drive section of the screen.

Sharing a folder:

This is where the learning kicks in.

Notice in the graphic above there is a check mark in front of the folder named DRFS. This is a must. That check mark opens up new choices on a new menu bar.

 

The button with the person and the plus: that is the share button. Click here to share the check marked folder from your My Drive list. Now, flashback to a previous post where you are then prompted to add the people you want to share the folder with. You can do this using email addresses.

Downloading a document:

Most important lesson learned is this: downloading a document from your My Drive. I didn’t realize how important this was until I was working with a student and realized something just didn’t add up.

 

 The “problem” was that the student had uploaded a Word document to her Google Drive. When she went to the library to print it there was no print option available. What was happening is that the Word document was there and it would open but it opened in Google View. This did not allow her to print but she could see her file. When in doubt consult the menu bar. I clicked on the More button and near the bottom of the list was a download option. That is what we needed. Once we clicked on download, the Word document was downloaded to Word and we were able to open and print. Whew!! I guess Isaac Newton was on to something when he said “what goes up must come down” the same is true of cloud storage. What is uploaded must be downloaded. J

--- IT Girl