[DG: Teaching & Learning] Using Google Docs

[Bruce D'Arcus]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Matthew Jones <jonespm at umich.edu> 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.

It occurs to me I could imagine workarounds to the problems I noted,
like leaving it up to students to sort out access. E.g. if I have 10
groups, each collaborating on a separate document, I can just tell
each group to setup the doc and sharing permissions with their
members, and with me.

The trickier thing is then in turn opening up those docs for comment
from other group/group members, but I imagine I could figure it out.

Thanks for the insights.

Bruce