[DG: Teaching & Learning] Using Google Docs

[John Johnston]

On Mar 20, 2011, at 8:39 PM, Matthew Jones wrote:

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> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:04 PM, John Johnston <johnpj at umich.edu> wrote:
> • Read access to Google Docs for site participants. Resources created of the type “Link to Google Doc” will automatically allow sakai site participants to read the content of the Doc regardless of the permissions settings for that document in Google Docs.
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> I didn't see this to be the case. On the documents I tried they all said I need permission to access this item. I don't see anything in the code that manipulates access control list of the documents, though this is a feature of the GData API. However,
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> <need permission.png>
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> • Document editing within Google Docs (for those with granted access through Google Docs)
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I believe there is a an oAuth token created on the initial launch of the "link to google doc" feature that allows the owner's (instructor's) google account credentials to be passed to through the google API to give the participants of the site access to the derivative link to the google doc file. It seems to work OK for me.

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John Johnston, Sr. Business Systems Analyst
Teaching and Learning Group, ITS, University of MIchigan
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