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Google docs at UW-W

WHAT RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE: To allow students, faculty, and staff to take full advantage of Google Docs, including file storage, sharing, and collaborative, real-time editing, iCIT has produced a series of short video tutorials that highlight the most important features of Google Docs at UW-W.

Videos on Using Google Docs for File Storage and Basic Editing:

Video Table of Contents with Additional Information (PDF):

UW-W Faculty and Staff may also sign-up for hands-on workshops (currently not open to students), scheduled for the fall of 2010. For the times and dates, see the UW-W Events Calendar; to sign-up, go to signup.uww.edu

WHAT IT IS: Beginning in the summer of 2010, UWW-supported version of Google Docs has become available to campus community. The new service can be accessed online, and is open to UW-W students, faculty, and staff with a valid Net-ID login.

Google Docs is primarily intended as a convenient online location where students can store files, in addition to portable file storage devices, such as USB drives. But the functionality of the new service extends beyond simple online file storage. Files stored on Google Docs can easily be shared with on- and off-campus colleagues or co-workers, eliminating the need for sending e-mail attachments.

Google Docs also includes tools for the creation, editing, and providing of feedback on shared documents, spreadsheets, presentations, online forms, and drawings. Google Docs files can be created and edited entirely online, and later exported to popular desktop file formats such as Microsoft Word, or Excel, if needed. File creation and editing tools work inside standard web browsers on Windows and Mac, and do not require any additional desktop software.

Although document-editing features of Google Docs don't yet match the depth and breadth of options in full-featured, desktop software, such as Microsoft Word or Excel, Google's editing tools offer a unique advantage, unmatched by most desktop programs: collaborative editing. Several contributors are able to edit one document at the same time, and see the changes made by others, in real time. During the group editing process Google Docs makes it easy to communicate about the editing process in real time using on-screen chat.

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This page last updated on August 06, 2010 (GJ).