[DG: Teaching & Learning] Using Google Docs

[John Norman]

I think we should speak of Google Docs integration with 2 separate scenarios
1. For institutions that do NOT have a Google Apps for Education domain setup and rely on the generic Google Apps
2. For institutions that DO have a Google Apps for Education domain

My sense is that the scenarios will be quite different (although I could be wrong).

For scenario (1) I think we will need a step to associate (and maybe create) a Google account with the Sakai account - perhaps in profile.
For scenario (2) students can take advantage of a campus provisioned identity hidden behind the Sakai login, but may need help understanding scenarios where they create something using a different ID and it doesn't show up in Sakai

John

On 21 Mar 2011, at 01:11, Matthew Jones wrote:

> I think it would depend on how you define it. Saying it like that, currently as implemented it probably wouldn't work out that well and be a lot of work. You'd need to collect all of your students Google id's, create google groups (rather than Sakai groups), add them to these, then share the documents to this google group. Then you could add it to the site with this tool.
> 
> However some things that might be easier:
> - If you're a professor that likes to use google documents and want to give a more transparent way for your class to access the document(s), then this would work.
> - If you want your entire class to collaborate on a few documents (maybe one or two a week) then this would probably work out well.
> 
> All of the access control is still on the Google side with whoever owns the document.
> 
> As far as the enhancement, if you're an rSmart customer you could possibly email them. Otherwise I'm not sure.
> 
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus at gmail.com> wrote:
> So if I understand you right, it's not ready for prime-time as I define it?
> 
> E.g. I couldn't have a class of 40, split up into ten groups in Sakai,
> and tie permissions for editing (and in particular, commenting) Google
> Documents based on those Sakai groups?
> 
> If that's right, where do I submit an enhancement request for this tool?
> 
> Bruce
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