Select a Google Workspace application for your classroom

Google Drive is a cloud based file storage server that allows for safe file sharing, synchronisation, editing and collaboration. It contains a Workspace of Google Apps and other productivity tools that can be used to promote collaboration with others and has the capability to customise sharing permissions with individuals.

Just like other hard drives, Google drive can store anything from pictures, stories, designs, drawings, recordings, videos etc but the advantage of a Google drive is that you don’t have to remember to save changes as you edit. All changes are automatically saved and your revision history is easily accessible if you need to retrieve anything. Google Drive is also accessible from any device, such as your iPad,iPhone and laptop as long as there is an internet connection.

All Google accounts come with 15GB of cloud storage space free when an email account is created; however, more storage space can be purchased or your institution may have more storage space allocated to each enrolled student as part of their Google workspace.

How can it be used in the classroom?

• You can create and allocate specific folders within a google drive to individual students or groups and have the students develop and collaborate on their projects within these folders.
• You can share specific documents (docs, slides, forms etc.) with students and set specific access permissions, so students can edit or interact with the documents for specific tasks.