Using Google Drive

Once we’ve scanned our images/documents via the scanning app of our choice, we want to add them to our Google Drive.

Check out this tutorial that introduces you to how to get from your gmail to Google Drive, create folders and files, sharing with collaborators, and more.

Important Time Stamps In the Tutorial:

• 15:00​–15:27​ Creating a New Folder
• 14:10​–15:00​ Renaming/Moving/Copying/Deleting a File/Folder/View File Details/Printing
• 15:58​–17:04​ Uploading a File from Camera Roll or Files App/Take a Photo
• 17:04​–17:37​ Creating a new Docs/Sheets/Slides Document 
  • This feature is great if you’re using Google Docs to write your blogs/Highlights
• 17:37​–18:24​ Uploading to Google Drive from Outside the App (Share Sheet)
  • This is the step you want if you’re scanning on your device with a scanning app. Follow these steps but with the scanning app of your choice.

Please Note: This tutorial is focused using Google Drive on an iPad. However, the instructions will be the same regardless if it’s an iPhone or iPad, Apple or Android product.

Once we scan on our chosen scanning app and upload to Google Drive on our device, we can then view and edit what we’ve uploaded on our computer. Check out this tutorial that introduces you to how to get from your gmail to Google Drive, create folders and files, sharing with collaborators, and more.

1. If you are working with a Fellow, share your Google Folder with your Fellow so they can help you out.
   1. Tap on your PAL Google Folder, the one you just created.
   2. On the top right corner, tap “…”
   3. Tap “Share.”
   4. Enter the email address of your Fellow. It will come up underneath where you just typed. Tap on that.
   5. Tap the blue triangle pointing to the right in the bottom right corner.

For a brief tutorial on sharing your file or folder, click here.

To add media to The About Page, Highlights, and Look/Listen, you can directly upload your scanned items to your Media Library using Google Drive.  When you’re in your Media Library, you will see the option to drop files, select files, or import from Google Drive.  For more on using Google Drive in the Media Library, click here.

Important Note: If you’re uploading an image to Mapping the Legacy, you cannot directly import from your Google Drive. If your image is in your Google Drive, first download the image. It will download to your computer’s “Downloads” file. You can move the file or keep it there as long as you know where it is.

Below are a few helpful tutorials if uploading to Mapping the Legacy:

• How to download a file on Google Drive
• Adding images to Mapping the Legacy
• How to move documents on your computer