Cloud Fundamentals

Google Drive
Cloud Fundamentals
Google Drive works on any browser but to get the
best experience you should use Google’s browser,
Chrome. Chrome is free and provides some specific
tools to help use and manage Google Apps.
Each time you want to login to Google Drive, go to
Google.com. After you login, your account name
will appear in the upper right of the Google page.
To the left of your name is a box made up of nine
smaller boxes. This is the Google apps launcher.
Click on the Apps Launcher and a list of nine core
apps will appear. At the bottom of the list is the
Drive app. Click on the Drive App icon.
The first time you login, Drive will present a
welcome dialogue. Click the next button to go
through a very brief overview.
Google provides a How to get started with Google
Drive document. This document is a PDF that
provides some brief information about Google
Drive.
Google Drive is your storage location for all kinds
of files. At the time of the writing of this article,
Google provides 15 Gigabytes of Storage for free.
To see the amount of storage available, go to the
lower left corner and hover your mouse over the
percentage used area.
Google Drive is your storage in the Cloud. You can
upload and save any file onto your Google Drive
account. This includes documents, pictures, audio
and video. Be careful of copyright laws when
uploading and sharing any media. Google can
cancel your account if you are sharing copyrighted
material with your account.
The easiest way to place documents and media into
your Drive account is to drag and drop files onto
the browser from your computer. Let’s take a look
at how to do this with an example.
In this example I have several files. I have three
documents created with Microsoft Office. These
files include a Word, Excel and Power Point
document. I also have a few iWorks files, images, an
audio file and a video file.
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