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Introduction

Google Drive is a cloud storage service that lets the user to store documents, images, audio, videos, as files and even inside folders. It requires the user to have a google account to use this service. Google drive can be used in windows, ubuntu or any other operating system including on android phones.

ICT Competency	Google Drive is a application for storing and accessing resources.
Educational application and relevance	You can store all your data here by uploading existing file and folders, also can create new files and folders. And you can share your data with your peers to view, edit and comment.
Version	Version - Not Applicable
Configuration	No specific configuration requirements but Internet connection is needed to use this application.
Other similar applications	Nextcloud Dropbox
The application on mobiles and tablets	Android phones will have in-built Google Drive option. You need to switch on the synchronizing option to get all your mobile camera photos to upload to your google drive photos automatically. This enable all your important event photos will be saved safely in Google Drive.
Development and community help	Google

Overview of Features

Google allows 15GB of free Google online storage space on cloud, this includes your photos (Google photos), emails (Gmail), stories, drawings, recordings, video (Drive files).
Your files in Drive can be accessed from any smart phone, tablet, or computer.
You can invite others to view, download, and collaborate on all the files of you.

Installation

It is a web based application, there is no installation needed. To access google drive, you have to sign in to Google site by using your google login details.

Working with the application

Accessing Google Drive

The below images show you how to access Google Drive. You need to access a browser (Mozilla Firefox) for this. On your computer with Ubuntu custom distribution, to open web browser go to (Applications → Internet→ Firefox web browser), as shown in the first image.

Opening a browser
Login to Gmail account

2. If you are using windows or any other operating system open web browsers like Google, Mozilla, Safari etc…

3. You have to sign in to google site by using your Gmail user (email) ID and password.

4. The google drive page will open and will look like the below image.

Google Apps, select Drive
Google Drive main page

Creating / uploading and sharing files and folder

Create your local files or folders to Google Drive

Click on “New” icon on left side of the screen.
If you want to create a folder, click on "Folder" --> Give folder name --> Click on "Create".
Inside this folder, you can create new files such as documents, spreadsheet and slides. Google Drive has Open Document Format (odt, odp, ods) viewer and can open any .odf files, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx are the supported file formats.

Creating new folder

Upload your files to google drive

To upload your local files, click on "new" --> select "file upload" -> select file -> click open.
This upload time is completely depending on your file size, once it uploads it will show you the right mark (green colour).
Google drive will allow you to upload any kind of files like image, audio, video, text files etc.

Upload your folder to google drive

To upload your local folder, click on "new" --> select "folder upload" --> select folder --> click open.
By doing this you can directly upload folder from local storage.

Sharing your google drive files and folders

In google drive you can share your folder/files in two way:

Share with other person's email ID

Use this method when you know the email address of everyone with whom you are sharing.

Right click on the file/folder --> click on 'Share' --> in the pop-up window, Under 'share with people', type the email address of the person or Google group you want to share with, copy the link by clicking on "copy link" button.

Share files/folders with others to see the files through the link

Use this method when you don’t know everyone’s email address, aren’t sure if they all have a Google account, or simply want a document to be more widely available.

1. Right click on the file/folders which you are going share, select on "Share"

Right click and select get sharable link

2. In the pop-up window, under "Get link" option, Click on "change" (to decide what people can do with your file when you share it), select Viewer or Editor. Choose "viewer" option to only make them access your files. Choose "Editor" option to give them the rights to modify your file/folder.

click on change option under get link

3. Click Copy link --> Done.

4. Copy and paste the link in an email or any place you want to share it.

Copy your google drive file link

Animation on how to share your google drive folders/files

You can share your google drive folders and files using your computer browser or mobile app.

Through computer browser	Through Google drive mobile app
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Advanced features

You can create simple drawings on "Google Drawing Page".
You can allow others to access your documents ('sharing' documents with them) and give their comments and feedback.

Ideas for resource creation

All the documents like photos , important files and text resources can be saved in the drive. You can share these resources with your peers to view, edit and comment to make it more effective.

References

Google Drive page

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 ===Introduction===
-Google Drive is a cloud storage service that lets you save various files and folders you create and which are shared with you by others. To access your drive from different devices, you need to sign in to your Google Account (which is created when you open your [[Learn Gmail|Gmail account]]).
+Google Drive is a cloud storage service that lets the user to store documents, images, audio, videos, as files and even inside  folders. It requires the user to have a google account to use this service. Google drive can be used in windows, ubuntu or any other operating system including on android phones.
-====Basic information====
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-|You can store all your data here by uploading existing file, folders and also can create new files and folders. And you can share your data with your peers to view, edit and comment.
+|You can store all your data here by uploading existing file and folders, also can create new files and folders. And you can share your data with your peers to view, edit and comment.
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-|Android phones will have inbuilt Google Drive option. You need to switch on the synchronizing option to get all your mobile camera photos to upload to your google drive photos automatically. This enable all your important event photos will be saved safely in Google Drive.
+|Android phones will have in-built Google Drive option. You need to switch on the synchronizing option to get all your mobile camera photos to upload to your google drive photos automatically. This enable all your important event photos will be saved safely in Google Drive.
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 ====Overview of Features====
 # Google allows 15GB of free Google online storage space on cloud, this includes your photos (Google photos), emails (Gmail), stories, drawings, recordings, video (Drive files).
-# Your files in Drive can be access from any smart phone, tablet, or computer.
+# Your files in Drive can be accessed from any smart phone, tablet, or computer.
 # You can invite others to view, download, and collaborate on all the files of you.
 ==== Installation ====
-It is a web based application, there is no installation needed. To access google drive, you have to sign in to www.drive.google.com site by using your google login details.
+It is a web based application, there is no installation needed. To access google drive, you have to sign in to [https://drive.google.com/drive Google] site by using your google login details.
 ===Working with the application===
 ====Accessing Google Drive ====
-<gallery mode="packed" heights="250px" caption="Opening Google Drive">
+# The below images show you how to access Google Drive. You need to access a browser (Mozilla Firefox) for this. On your computer with Ubuntu custom distribution, to open web browser go to (Applications → Internet→ Firefox web browser), as shown in the first image.
+<gallery mode="packed" heights="250px">
 File:Youtube_1_Option_Menu_to_Open.png|Opening a browser
 File:Gmail 1 Main Window.png|Login to Gmail account
+</gallery>
+. If you are using windows or any other operating system open web browsers like Google, Mozilla, Safari etc…
+. You have to sign in to [https://drive.google.com/drive/ google]  site by using your Gmail user (email) ID and password.
+. The google drive page will open and will look like the below image.
+<gallery mode="packed" heights="250px">
 File:Google_Photos_1_App_Of_Google.png|Google Apps, select Drive
 File:Google_Drive_2_Main_Window.png|Google Drive main page
 </gallery>
-# The above images show you how to access Google Drive. You need to access a browser (Mozilla Firefox) for this. On your computer with Ubuntu custom distribution, to open web browser go to (Applications → Internet→ Firefox web browser), as shown in the first image.
-#If you are using windows or any other operating system open web browsers like Google, Mozilla, Safari etc…
-#You have to sign in to www.drive.google.com  site by using your Gmail user (email) ID and password.
-#The google drive page will open and will look like the above image (last image).
-====Creating / uploading and sharing files====
+====Creating / uploading and sharing files and folder====
-<gallery mode="packed" heights="300px" caption="Creating/Uploading">
-File:Google_Drive_3_New_Files_Uploads.png|New files
+===== Create your local files or folders to Google Drive =====
+#Click on “New” icon on left side of the screen.
+#If you want to create a folder, click on "Folder" --> Give folder name --> Click on "Create".
+#Inside this folder, you can create new files such as documents, spreadsheet and slides. Google Drive has Open Document Format (odt, odp, ods) viewer and can open any .odf files, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx are the supported file formats.
+<gallery mode="packed" heights="250px">
+File:Google_Drive_3_New_Files_Uploads.png|Creating new folder
 </gallery>
-#If you want to create a folder, click on “Folder” --> Give folder name --> Click on “Create”.
-#To upload your local files, click on "new" select "file upload" -> select file -> click open.
+===== Upload your files to google drive =====
+#To upload your local files, click on "new" --> select "file upload" -> select file -> click open.
 #This upload time is completely depending on your file size, once it uploads it will show you the right mark (green colour).
 #Google drive will allow you to upload any kind of files like image, audio, video, text files etc.
-<gallery mode="packed" heights="300px" caption="Sharing file">
-File:Google_Drive_4_Share_Files.png|Sharing files
-File:Google_Drive_5_Access_Permission.png|Access permission
+===== Upload your folder to google drive =====
-</gallery>
+# To upload your local folder, click on "new" --> select "folder upload" --> select folder --> click open.
+# By doing this you can directly upload folder from local storage.
+===== Sharing your google drive files and folders =====
+In google drive you can share your folder/files in two way:
+===== Share with other person's email ID =====
+Use this method when you know the email address of everyone with whom you are sharing.
+Right click on the file/folder --> click on 'Share' --> in the pop-up window, Under 'share with people', type the email address of the person or Google group you want to share with, copy the link by clicking on "copy link" button.
-===== Create your local files or folders to Google Drive =====
+===== Share files/folders with others to see the files through the link =====
-#Click on “New” icon on left side of the screen.
+Use this method when you don’t know everyone’s email address, aren’t sure if they all have a Google account, or simply want a document to be more widely available.
-#If you want to create a folder, click on “Folder” --> Give folder name --> Click on “Create”.
-#Inside this folder, you can create new files such as documents, spreadsheet and slides. Google Drive has Open Document Format (odt, odp, ods) viewer and can open any .odf files, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx are the supported file formats.
-===== Upload your files to google drive =====
+. Right click on the file/folders which you are going share, select on "Share"<gallery mode="packed" heights="200px">
-#To upload your local files, click on "new" select "upload files" -> select file -> click open.
+File:1. Google drive - right click and select get sharable link.png|Right click and select get sharable link
-#This upload time is completely depending on your file size, once it uploads it will show you the right mark (green colour).
+</gallery>
-#Google drive will allow you to upload any kind of files like image, audio, video, text files etc.
+. In the pop-up window, under "Get link" option, Click on "change" (to decide what people can do with your file when you share it), select Viewer or Editor. Choose "viewer" option to only make them access your files. Choose "Editor" option to give them the rights to modify your file/folder.
-===== Sharing your google drive files and folders =====
+<gallery mode="packed" heights="200px">
-#Select any uploaded file from your google drive - > Right click on the file and click "'''Share'''" on the right side corner of your screen and click on "'''get shareable link'''" -> click on "copy link" to get the sharable link.
+File:2. Google drive - Select any one with this link.png|click on '''change''' option under '''get link'''
-[[File:Google drive share option.png|thumb|400x400px|To share your files with others|center]]
+</gallery>
-{{Clear}}
+. Click Copy link --> Done.
-*Even if you are opened the file and to share it, click on "'''share'''" button from top corner of your screen. It will open a popup window, here click on the "'''get shareable link'''" option on the top right side of the window, copy this link
-*Once you copied the sharable link from any one of the method, now you just paste the link in a platform where you are going to share example like moodle, gmail, whatsapp, telegram etc by pasting this link.
-*You can also set permissions for people to access your files/folders. In the same popup window choose access permission under anyone with this link option.
+. Copy and paste the link in an email or any place you want to share it.
-Examples : If you want to give access to edit , select “can edit” option, similarly you can select other options like "comment" and only "view".
+<gallery mode="packed" heights="200px">
+File:4. Google drive - Copy your google drive file link.png|Copy your google drive file link
+</gallery>
-====Saving the files and formats====
+==== Animation on how to share your google drive folders/files ====
-When you start working on Google Drive documents, it will save automatically with given file name. Or else it will save as "Untitled" file.
+ You can share your google drive folders and files using your computer browser or mobile app.
+{| class="wikitable"
+|-
+! Through computer browser !! Through Google drive mobile app
+|-
+| [[File:How_to_share_google_drivefolders_and_files_with_others11.gif|link=Special:FilePath/How_to_share_google_drive_folders_and_files_with_others.gif]]||[[File:How_to_share_google_drivefolders_and_files_with_others_through_phone22.gif|400px]]|link=Special:FilePath/How_to_share_google_drive_folders_and_files_with_others_through_phone2.gif]]
+|}
 ====Advanced features====
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 =References=
-Google Drive [http://www.coosbaylibrary.org/sites/default/files/GoogleDriveHandout.pdf Tutorial]
 [https://www.google.com/drive/ Google Drive page]
 [[Category:Explore an application]]

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