Google Drive (formerly called Google Docs) has now been enabled for all students with 5GB of space per student. This will allow students to share documents and collaborate with other students and faculty. Faculty/Staff wanting to share documents with students should use their own personal Google accounts. OTS does not recommend using your @towson.edu email address to create a personal Google account at this time due to possible future conflicts.
Local IT Providers: Due to the way the Google Drive apps for PCs & Macs synchronize documents with the local machine, it is not recommended that labs install this client. Student?s data would be stored on the local machine without an easy way for the student to ensure that it has been deleted from the lab computer. Also, there would be a delay while the files are being synchronized so the student would have to wait until they can access all of their files. The web version of Google Drive would be much faster in a lab environment.
A CIAT Faculty Professional Development Workshop on Using Google Docs for Group Collaboration will be held on August 8. You may attend this session in person (registration required), view it online live or view it later online. More information about the workshop and a link to register can be found at {http://fusion.towson.edu/www/ciat/workshops/workshop_details.cfm?ID=726.}
Support and more information about Google Drive can be found at {https://support.google.com/drive/?hl=en&p=web_home.}
