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(Today's blog will wrap up the Classwork section in your Google Classroom.)  Sometimes you want to access materials - including assignments turned in by students - in your Drive instead of in Classroom.  This is possible, but it is really important to understand where this folder is located and NOT DELETE certain parts so that your Classroom can continue to run smoothly. To access your Class Drive Folder: When in your classroom, click on Classwork - Look in the upper right corner for the Class Drive folder, click on it - This will open up your Google Drive into the class folder.  The name of the class will be the final listing within the breadcrumb trail - All resources and assignments shared within the course will be within this folder.  Those that are assignments and students are turning in work will be in a folder.  Resources will be listed at the bottom.  Additionally, there will a Templates folder - this folder contains any of the ite...

Today I asked about transferring ownership of documents in G Drive.  There are five ways I know of to change ownership of files. It occurred to me I should share here in case others are asked (or wonder) about this also! I've outlined them below, because some will depend on G Suite administrators being involved, and some depend on the number of files to be moved. Here the ways: Copying the file - done by you (or currently user) by going to the File menu on a file you have edit rights to, and creating a copy (what you are currently doing)  This by far the most tedious if it involves more than a couple files.  It actually makes multiple copies of the file, each with its own ownership.  The best use of this method is for when a document is wanted by another person, but the creator also still needs the file. Switching ownership - the   current owner   of the file goes into the share settings and changes the access right of another editor to own...