Organizing Files
This button allows you to upload a file from your computer to Google Drive.
What is the New button?
Clicking this button on your project lets you send a document to others for viewing, editing, or commenting.
What is the Share button?
a Google app where you can store, organize, and share files securely.
What is Google Drive?
You use this tool to find a file by typing in its name.
What is Search Bar?
You create this to group related files together in Google Drive.
What is a folder?
If you only want someone to be able to look at your document but not change anything, you give them this access.
What is Viewer access?
In the left-hand menu, this section shows the files that others have shared with you.
What is Shared with Me?
This search filter lets you narrow down results by who created or shared the file.
What is People filter?
If you want to upload a whole set of files at once, you should choose this option from the New button.
What is Folder Upload?
You can give this kind of access to allow someone to leave notes or suggestions on a file.
What is Commenter access?
This feature lets you add a mark next to important files to easily find them later.
What is starring a file?
If you want to find only Google Docs in your Drive, this search filter will help narrow your results.
What is Type filter?
This feature allows you to visually organize your folders by changing their appearance.
What is color-coding?
If you give someone this type of access, they can change your document however they like.
Editor Access
When working on a group project, you can leave these on a document to ask questions or suggest changes.
What are comments?
If you want to search for files from the last 7 days, click this search filter.
What is Modified?
This feature helps you recover accidentally deleted files from Google Drive.
What is the Trash?