Google Tips for MacEwan University

Inserting a comment into a document is a great collaborative feature of Google Apps —it allows participants to carry on a discussion about a potential change. However, sometimes you just want to suggest a change in wording. With the Suggest Edits feature, you can highlight a piece of text and  type in what you think the text to be (similar to Microsoft's Track Changes feature). Like comments, collaborators can comment on the suggestion, and when ready, accept the change. You can find more from Google Help or watch the video below!

As a document stored in Google Drive (i.e. the cloud), you never have to download or email a file — you just connect to it through your browser and start working. However, working with Google Apps is more than just cloud storage — it's about collaboration on a whole new level . Collaborators can access the same document at the same time. You see other people's changes happen on your screen while you're making your own. In fact, you can have up to 50 people making changes on the document at the same time! For students, this means group work can be easily accomplished anywhere there's an internet connection - on a desktop or mobile device. Faculty and administration can also take advantage of the collaboration features of Google Apps. With individuals working different hours and different locations (both on and off campus) the ability to work on a single document instead of trying to remember where the most recent version is stored, is invaluable. And when done making...