Bath Spa Gmail ... How to use your University email
Google Apps / Google Drive: some pointers
It's useful to keep in mind: when using 'Google Drive', you're using a young system. If you choose to use this collaboratively - sharing documents between people - be aware that Google drive isn't (yet) totally intuitive. You need not to be the one that moves the location of a shared document - risking that it vanishes from the sight of the other people sharing it.
- Google Drive
- You can store your documents in Google's cloud, and it's useful to understand the difference between an 'Office' document you've stored there and a 'Google doc' that you can work on - and how to avoid a shared document vanishing for everyone.
- Google Apps
- Work on ideas, documents, either on your own or in groups, working with the same documents from different locations.
- Google Apps templates
- Templates: investigate them, they can help you.
- Google Hangouts offer you videoconferencing
- Here's the basics of how to get going with a Google Hangout
- Google Forms
- Create forms to gather information and run web surveys
- Appointment Booking
- Put together a web-based appointment booking system: see this five minute video on appointment booking courtesy of Richard Stamp.
More to follow ...
Mark Annand • Site updated April 12th 2013 • Site Counter:
All before you, in this world, is smoke and shadows.All before you, in this world, is smoke and shadows.
Words found on a door lintel in the garden of a house in the Cretan village of Argiroupolis.
The lintel is a fragment from the city state Lappa, which occupied the same site.
Fifteen hundred years later, when you use the web, from time to time you might well feel that the author was on to something. And if you work with particle physics, you'll know he was ...