Google Drive

Google Drive

What is it? :With Google Drive you can store documents, photos, music, videos, and

so on, all in one convenient place

Benefits:

Google Drive is also integrated with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides making it

incredibly easy to create new content directly from Drive

To get to Google Drive:

• Click on the icon for internet browser

• (Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox)

• Type drive.google.com in browser search bar and press enter Google Drive

• Sign in to google or create an account. For help with this see

Sign in to google or create an account. For help with this see the accounts page or

your instructor.

Drive allows users a place to store files on Google servers

You can store:

• Documents

• Music

• Videos

• Images

• Spreadsheets

• Executable

• any other file formats

You can remove files, change file names, and copy files.

Additionally, you can upload files and download files from local machines

Key Terms

Files 

Each individual document is a file. A file may be a paper for school, or an individual

web page. This can be thought of as a digital paper.

Folders/Directories

Sometimes called folders, directories help store your files in groups. This can be

thought of as a the digital version of a real folder where you put all your papers/files.

Folders are like drawers to store files

Where are my files?

Every computer system uses the file system, so you may have files on the computer

you're using now or on your phone, but the files we will use are stored in the cloud.

The Cloud

The cloud is a term to describe the practice of using a network of remote servers hosted

on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal

computer.

This all means that you can access the files on your computer, even upload/download

them, but they are actually located on a server/computer somewhere else. In the case of

Google Drive, they are probably located in one of Google's massive data centers.

Additionally, you can upload files and download files from local machines

Key Terms

Get to google drive

New - Create new files/folders

Upload files - allows you to browse your local computer to find files and copy them to your Google drive.

Share files/folders - Allows you to grant other users rights to edit/view your files

 Search - Allows user to search for key words in any files

we can upload files from our local computer to the cloud(google)

we can drag and drop files into folders

myDrive is where our google files are stored

what is a file, add to drive with examples, copy, create directory, change to directory,

remove directory, directory structure, upload, download, remove, file types, images, test,

size.