Backing up Your Google Drive

Why should you back up your Google Drive?

• Are you afraid that you might lose all your important work you've done in Google Drive.
• Leaving MJSD and have documents you want to still have access to?
• Worried that someone might hack into your account and delete/trash your hard work?

If these thoughts have ever crossed your mind, here are some simple ways to back up your Google Drive. This is like insurance. You hope you never have to use it, but just in case you do, you were wise enough to make a backup.

Click HERE to read how to download your Google Docs to your personal computer or to a jump drive.

MindMup - Graphic Organizer in Google Drive

Save your mind maps in Google Drive by using MindMup. MindMup is free and easy for creating your mind maps and pulling them up again from Google Drive.

 

No login is needed to use MindMup. Student/Teacher creates the mind map and chooses to save it in their Google Drive account. When opening the mind map back up from their Google Drive account, you will open it in Google Drive Viewer. You will be prompted to open the map with MindMup - Free Mind Map Web Site.

 

Student can use this to brainstorm ideas and plan out their writing. Teacher can use this on the SmartBoards with the whole class during lessons, writing and brainstorming activities. 



 



Easy Research in Google Drive

Within Google Drive you can conduct your research and locate image for your projects without needing multiple tabs open on your computer.

When you are in a Google Document, click on Tools in the top toolbar. Then click on Research.  Box will open on the right side of the screen. You can research many ways. The 'Everything' category is a general Google search. You can also search Images, Google Scholar, Quotations, use the Dictionary or Tables lets you pull up data in table format.

 

After you conduct a search in this Research box, you have a few options. Cursor over the result you are interested in and some buttons appear. You can Preview the webpage. That means it opens in a box on your screen. You can insert a Link right into your Google Document (where every your cursor was at). The greatest option here is to Cite your work. Pressing the Cite button will put a citation in MLA format at the bottom of your page as a footer. You can also choose to have the citation in APA or Chicago format.



 

Along with searching for websites, you can also search for images. Drop down the menu above the search results and you can choose to filter images that are "Free to use, share or modify, even commercially."



Google Drive App for your mobile device/tablet

You can access your Google Drive from any smartphone, tablet, or apple device using the Google App. Simply download the Google Drive app from the Google Market or Apple App Store. Then login in using your school email address if you want to connect your school google drive account. This short video gives you step-by-step directions:

Here are instructions to set up your school google account on your phone: https://sites.google.com/a/mjsd.k12.wi.us/mjsd-google-apps/mobile-users

Looking for your Google documents? They are still located within your gmail. They can be found under Drive. Drive is found on the top toolbar in the same place you would find documents. Drive has a cleaner look to shared documents. Out with the collections and in with folders. I hope the video below can help you maneuver through Google Drive a little easier.