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How to Enable Google Drive & Connect to a Shared Folder

To allow students, assistants, and professors to share documents easily there is a shared

folder for each module. This How-­‐To will show you how to connect to and use a shared

folder for the Neuroscience module.

Enable Google Drive

To use Google Drive you first need to enable it in your Google account.

1. From your Google+ home page, click on “Drive” from the top menu.

NOTE: See “How To Create a Shared Folder” to learn how to create your own shared folder that you can

share with your county circle and/or your mentor. Coming soon …

If you haven’t used Google Drive before you might see the word “Documents” instead of

“Drive” in your top menu. Google Drive is the new version of Google Documents. Click

on Documents to update to the new Drive application.

2. If you’re new to Google Drive you will see a welcome screen. Go ahead and click the

blue button on the top right, “Get started with 5 GB free.” Don’t worry – it really is

free!

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3. Now you will see “My Drive” on the left side of the page, and another welcome

message in the main frame. It’s all set up and ready to go!

4. OPTIONAL … You do not need to install the Google Drive application on your

computer to use Google Drive! You can still create and share folders. But, installing the

desktop application really makes sharing files a whole lot easier. It’s up to you!

To install the desktop application, click the blue “Install Google Drive for Mac/PC”

button and follow the onscreen instructions to download the application.

If you don’t install the desktop application you’ll continue to see a banner urging

you to download it. You can dismiss the banner but it may keep popping back up. 

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Connect to a Shared Folder

For BioScience Montana, we’ll use a shared folder for each science module. This way

everyone can upload documents to the same folder where they are accessible to all. We’ll

start with a Neuroscience shared folder.

Note: This folder will be created and owned by MJ – but that doesn’t really

matter as long as it’s shared with everyone.

1. First, you will receive a notification in Google+ telling you that MJ shared a folder

with you. Go ahead and click on the link.

2. This will take you right to the folder where should see the folder’s contents. (Right

now there’s just a test document in there.)

Now click on the “Google Drive” button in the upper left to go to your main Google

Drive window.

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3. From the main Google Drive window should see the contents of the “Neuroscience

Shared Docs” folder in a list on the right, along with the Google Drive menu on the

left.

4. Next, we’ll want to make this folder visible in your menu and easily accessible to you.

Click “More” under the “Drive” menu on the left, and then click on “All Items.” You

should see the “Neuroscience Shared Docs” folder in the list.

5. Now, just drag that folder to “My Drive” on the left.

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