Collaborations & Google Drive

Collaborations are a useful way to work with your peers in a shared document at the same time. You can use collaborations to:

• create notes that everyone can access
• share lists or agendas for upcoming synchronous class sessions or group meetings
• create a text-based whiteboard that everyone in the classroom can see and refer to later
• assign student groups a collaborative assignment as a graded assignment (instructor feature)

Depending upon how your instructor has Collaborations set up in your course, you may be able to use Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides as collaboration options.

Preparing to join a Collaboration

• Click Collaborations in the course navigation. Don't see Collaborations in your course navigation? Your instructor may have hidden it.
• Authorize Google Drive Access:

• Running into issues with Google Drive authorization? Try the following steps:
  • If you are using a Chrome browser, ensure you are not logged in with your public gmail.com account (such as janesmith@gmail.com). If so, log out Links to an external site. then refresh your browser and reauthorize Google Drive access.
  • If you are still not able to successfully authenticate, try using a different browser OR use the incognito mode in Chrome Links to an external site..

 

Additional Resources:

• Video Script Links to an external site.
• Text tutorials Links to an external site.