Google Drive

Owners

Can create, edit and delete documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and drawings. Owners can invite and share all documents.

Collaborators

Can edit documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and drawings. Can invite or delete other editors and viewers (if the owner has given them permission). Can export a copy of the document, spreadsheet, presentation, or drawing to their local hard drive. This copy does NOT update when changes are made to the shared document. Can view the list of editors. Can make a copy of a doc, and copy the list of docs editors.

Viewers

Can see the most recent version of a document, spreadsheet, presentation, or drawing but can't make any changes. Can export a copy of the document, spreadsheet, presentation, or drawing to their local hard drive. Can not view the list of editors. Can make a copy of a document, but can't copy the list of the document's editors.

Anytime, anywhere access

Cloud storage allows access to your files from any internet browser & safely stores documents online.

Autosave

Documents are saved as you work on them.

Sheets import or convert

Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx) OpenDocument spreadsheet (.ods) Comma-separated values (.csv, .txt)

Spreadsheets export

Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) OpenDocument spreadsheet (.ods) Comma-separated values (.csv, .txt) PDF, HTML

Presentations export

Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx) PDF (.pdf) Scalable Vector Graphic (.svg) PNG image (.png) JPG image (.jpg) Text (.txt)

Presentations import or convert

Microsoft Powerpoint (.ppt, .pptx .pps)

Word Processing import or convert

Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx) OpenDocument text (.odt) StarOffice text (.sxw) Rich text (.rtf) Plain text (.txt) HTML (.htm, .html)

Word Processing export

Microsoft Word(.docx) OpenDocument text (.odt) Rich text (.rtf) Plain text (.txt) HTML (.htm, .html) PDF

Drawings export

PNG JPEG SVG PDF

Visibility options

Private People at my organization with a link People at my organization can find and access Anyone with the link Public on the web.

Sharing settings

Sharing settings is your master control for a particular file or folder. You decide who can edit or only view the document

Accessing Google Drive

Sign into the Google Drive website with your Google account.

Templates

Templates can be copied with one click and modified to fit your needs.

Sharing in domain

The only people who can view the document are in your organization. You must share the link. It will not automatically appear in their doc list until opened.

Visibility settings

Visibility options let you control how people access your files and folders. Anything that you create, sync, or upload in Google Drive starts out as private.

Sharing with groups

When something is shared with that single group address, it is then shared with all the group members. You can assign either edit or view access to the document. Please note that the access level is the same for every member in the group. When you share the document with a group email alias, each will need to first open the document before it will appear in their document list.

Drawings import or convert

Windows Metafile (.wmf)

Google Drive

Word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, and drawings

Sharing Limitations

You can explicitly share a document or file with 200 viewers and editors (combined), or you can make your document available to anyone by changing its visibility option. Only 50 may edit and view a spreadsheet, document, or drawing at the same time.

Collaboration support

You can invite others to work on the same document and at the same time.

Revision history

You can review, compare, or revert to a prior version at any time.

Sharing privileges

You can set document privileges for individuals or groups. The choices are edit, comment or read-only access.

Shared folders

You can share multiple documents with the same group of people organized into one folder.

File formats

You can upload and store many file formats. You can convert MS Office and Open Office documents into Google Doc for editing and collaboration. You can export the documents to other file formats if needed.

Compatibility

You can use any computer, any operating system, any browser.

Sharing outside the domain

allowed only if setting is enabled your domain administrator has enabled the setting-you may see a warning message your domain administrator does not allow you to share-you will see an error message

Shared Folders

is a collection that exists in the doc list and appears for everyone that has access to it will always appear in a user's doc list, every time a new document is added they will have access to it - regardless of whether they have opened the document yet or not. when you share a folder, the new permissions are pushed to all sub-folders and docs within the folder

Google Groups

is a separate product that exists outside of Google Apps at http://groups.google.com they can contain email addresses of anyone, anywhere

Cloud computing

the practice of storing regularly used computer data on multiple servers that can be accessed through the Internet

Google Group

A group is a single email address that includes members' email addresses that can be used to share calendars and documents. If members to those groups are added or removed, their access to the document will also change accordingly.