Shared Drives are essential for sharing and storing important campus files and folders. One drawback to this system is that all Shared Drive files are open to all Shared Drive users. All that is changed now with limited access folders in Shared Drive! This new feature allows folders to be restricted to certain users and […]
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Shared Google Drive folders are a fantastic resource on campus. They facilitate committee work, allow a shared space for department files so they aren’t deleted on a personal computer (oops!), and keep things organized. Permissions get tricky though compared to a personal Google Drive. Now we have not just ourselves to worry about, what are
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A organizational benefit of Google Drive is the ability to manage file versions easily. Instead of have 10 different draft versions of a file, you can easily save and manage versions from one file. I’m sure we’ve all had the misfortune of wanting to revert back to an older version of an edit and it
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Page scan, shared PDF, screenshot, photo of a brainstorm session on the white board… it’s easy to collect course content and notes that are not editable and not accessible. Luckily it is even easier with Google to extract uneditable text to a document through optical character recognition (OCR). As an automated process, OCR is not
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There are always some great updates coming down the pike from Google! We won’t be detailing ever single one but we will give you some new updates that are applicable to the every day user on the EDU edition here at Meredith. To get all the updates, head over to the Google Workspace Updates blog
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MindMup 2.0 is our newly recommended mind mapping software. It is perfect for visually mapping and collaborating with groups, classes, and teams. Read about that here -> You can use the MindMup website for maps, but you they are all public and have some other restrictions. We recommend adding the MindMup 2.0 add-on to Google
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Instructional software tools are everywhere! There are so many engaging, colorful, robust tools out there that we couldn’t possibly support or even know about all them. But we have 2 new software recommendations for you! What that means is that we have researched them, vetted them for safety and accessibility issues, and think they will
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Google Drive can really streamline your work process and these quick tips will make it even better!
