Upload course materials into Google Bulldoze and use Google share links to evangelize those materials in your Canvas site. Using Google share links in your Sheet site allows y'all to:

  • save files to the Google cloud and have easy access to content wherever y'all have Cyberspace access
  • secure content in example of local drive failures
  • provide accessible, collaborative documents
  • easily update content every semester
  • archive and review previous versions of content using Google Version History

In this commodity:

  • Organize your Google Folder Construction
  • Adjust Google Share Settings
  • Add Google Drives Share Links to Canvas Site
  • Copy Google Drive Share Link
  • Add Google Links to Sheet
  • Update an existing file

Organize your Google Binder Construction

Create a logical Google Drive construction that allows you to easily identify and move content that yous want to share or not share with your students.

  1. Sign into drive.google.com with your UMN credentials.
    • If you are already logged into G-Suite, click the Google Apps card icon (also known as the "Waffle" that is located in the acme right corner of your browser when using Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar), and cull Google Drive.
  2. Create a folder for your course. Give it an advisable name i.e. COUR 1001.
  3. Create two folders inside the principal form folder.
    • Name ane folder [COUR 1001] SHARED for content that you plan to share with your students.
    • Name the other folder [COUR 1001] Not SHARED for anything with pupil data (grades, scores, groups)
  4. Add your content files to the respective SHARED or NOT SHARED folders.

Note: For documents with terms associated (i.e., class schedule); create a Fall, Jump, and Summertime version that can be updated for the next semester without a need to rename.

Adjust Google Share Settings

  1. Correct-click or control-click on the [COUR 1001] SHARED folder
  2. Choose Share from the drib-down card
    menu options include: open with, share (highlighted), get link, show folder location, add shortcut to Drive, move to, add to starred, rename, change color, search within folder, download, remove
  3. Click the downwardly arrow next to Restrictedand modify the admission setting to Anyone with the link. This setting is necessary to enable users from any UMN campus to access your Google files.
    modal window displays options to get document link and options to share including restricting document to specific individuals, anyone at the University of Minnesota or Anyone with the link.

Proficient practice

  • Name content documents and then they are easily identifiable past course and bespeak whether they are shared or not shared with students.
    Instance: COUR 1001 Start of Term Checklist SHARED.
    • Allows you to see at a glance where the document belongs when linking to the document in the Canvas class site.

Add Google Drives Share Links to Canvas Site

After you have uploaded content into Google Drive, named it appropriately, and adjusted the share settings, you tin link to the content in your Canvas course site.

Copy Google Drive Share Link

Your Google share links are considered external URLs in Canvas. To observe a link:

  1. Get to Google Drive, right-click on the file yous wish to share
  2. Cull Get Link from the driblet-downwardly menu. This saves the URL to your clipboard.

Add Google Links to Canvas

There are numerous places to link content to your Sheet site. The Sail guides provide instructions for all Canvas tools and how to link to external URLs.

  • Modules: How do I add an external URL as a module particular?
  • Use the Rich Content Editor: How do I create a hyperlink or embed a file from Google Drive into the Rich Content Editor as an teacher?

When you update any of the Google documents, all of the existing links in the Canvass course site will link to the updated documents.

Update an existing file

If you take an existing file (e.g., pdf, jpg, mov) in Google Drive and demand to supervene upon it with a new version:

  1. Become to file in Google Drive, right-click
  2. Cull Manage Versions
  3. Select Upload New Version
  4. Navigate to the new version yous wish to supervene upon
  5. Select Open. The new version will upload and supersede the old version.

The file name and the file's URL won't alter so all the existing links will now automatically point to the new version of your file.