Organising Drive

Today we looked at organising folders in Drive.

To organise find the drop down menu beside the folder you want to edit.
Here you can:

• Change the colour of the icon
• Share whole folder with other people
• Move folder somewhere else (move to)
• Rename folders
• Remove (delete folder)

Backing up computer files to Google Drive - Mac Only at this stage

Download Google Drive - you can also access your documents when you are not online.  You can work on these and when you come back online, the document will synch.

To sync files from your mac to google drive - install MacDropAny.

Follow the set-up instructions and sync the files you want to have in your google drive.  This will automatically sync any new files to your google drive.

Make sure you download Google Drive to your desktop before you set-up Mac Drop Any.

Note: You get 30GB of storage space in Google Drive.

Drive and Calendar

Drive

Save to google drive chrome extension
   Save images, links, etc directly to Google Drive.

Screen capture 
   Capture images and send to your Google Drive account.

In App training through Synergyse Chrome App
   If the training button is not visible, select Drive through the Synergyse website.  This will install the    training button in your drive account.

Connect more apps in your drive account by exploring the apps available.
   Create>connect more apps>connect

Voice Comments
Enable the voice comments app from your drive account
In drive dashboard: create>connect more apps>voice comments>connect
Here is a tutorial video that goes through it:

Calendar

Add other people's calendars

Browse interesting calendars

Explore labs (find under the settings menu)
e.g. event flare, hide morning and night, event attachments, jump to date.

Gmail & Chrome

Quick round-up of what we covered:

Synergyse Google Apps Training 

Interactive in-app training for Google Apps - speciafically Gmail and Calendar.  This is a chrome extension which will access your google account and set-up within the app required.

Chrome 

Multiple Users

You can create multiple user accounts, where bookmarks, apps, extensions, themes and browser settings for the user can be personalised.  This can be useful for having different environments for personal and professional accounts.  Click here to find out how to set this up.

Gmail

Organising your Mail

Make your mail work for you by creating different filters and rules for incoming mail.  Click here to see how to create this.