The end of the school year is here and it is a great time for students and staff to cleanup your email and drives before you leave for the summer.  Here are a few best practices and tools to help you.

Student/Staff Drives:
It is a good idea to backup all files on your school based drives before you leave for the summer. Refer to your EOY checkout sheets for your school process. Remember that the student share drive will be deleted this summer so remove any files you wish to keep.

Google Takeout:
To create an archive of all files on up to 16 different Google products including Drive and Gmail. This process is free and very simple, just follow the onscreen directions as shown below.

1. Create an archive:


2. Select your services to backup and your file download type (by default all files will download as a zip file):


3. Click Create Archive

4. Download your archive file:


Your archive file will take some time to prepare depending on the amount of files in your Drive and Gmail; you will receive an email when the file is ready. Your archive file will be available for seven days. It is strongly encouraged you download your archive file to your home computer or a flash drive.  

Leaving Your School?
Remember to check your Google Drive for folders or documents you own that you may no longer need and transfer them to someone who will be staying at that school. For example, if you have a 5th grade math folder for your PLC, open the folder in Google Drive and click on the person with a + sign icon and click "advanced" and then make someone else the owner of the folder. You will still be able to access the folder but it will no longer be owned by your Google account.

Questions? Comments?
Please email me!



Friday, May 22, 2015

Friday Google Tidbit: Backup Your Google Drive with Google Takeout!




The end of the school year is here and it is a great time for students and staff to cleanup your email and drives before you leave for the summer.  Here are a few best practices and tools to help you.

Student/Staff Drives:
It is a good idea to backup all files on your school based drives before you leave for the summer. Refer to your EOY checkout sheets for your school process. Remember that the student share drive will be deleted this summer so remove any files you wish to keep.

Google Takeout:
To create an archive of all files on up to 16 different Google products including Drive and Gmail. This process is free and very simple, just follow the onscreen directions as shown below.

1. Create an archive:


2. Select your services to backup and your file download type (by default all files will download as a zip file):


3. Click Create Archive

4. Download your archive file:


Your archive file will take some time to prepare depending on the amount of files in your Drive and Gmail; you will receive an email when the file is ready. Your archive file will be available for seven days. It is strongly encouraged you download your archive file to your home computer or a flash drive.  

Leaving Your School?
Remember to check your Google Drive for folders or documents you own that you may no longer need and transfer them to someone who will be staying at that school. For example, if you have a 5th grade math folder for your PLC, open the folder in Google Drive and click on the person with a + sign icon and click "advanced" and then make someone else the owner of the folder. You will still be able to access the folder but it will no longer be owned by your Google account.

Questions? Comments?
Please email me!