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Google Drive and Shared Drive

Store, search, and access files as a team. Safely collaborate and share files with a project team, your department, or campus colleagues.


Benefits and Features

  • File storage and sharing: Store, share, and collaborate on Google Docs as well as other files (e.g. PDFs)
  • Powerful search: Google’s powerful search engine allows keyword search and filtering
  • Data Security 
    • Sophisticated file access permissions
    • Native P3 data security 
    • In combination with the Virtru service, PDFs and other non-Google document types can be encrypted for enhanced document security.
  • Individual storage: “My Drive” provides private file storage for individual students, staff, and faculty members. Files or folders can be shared individually with other users as desired.
  • Shared institutional storage: Shared Drives provide departments or teams shared space for University documentation. Files and folders can be shared with additional users as desired. Learn more about key features of Shared Drives. 
  • Integrations: Google Drive integrates with multiple other tools such as DocuSign, Folgo and Slack.

Eligibility

Staff, Faculty, Students 

Cost

No additional cost.

Related Services

Policy

P4 data must be encrypted if stored in Google. Please see more on Google Apps Service allowable data use.

More information about Google Drive and Shared Drive privacy and security settings.