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.
