Google Drive: How to Use Google Documents

Open your internet browser (Chrome, Firefox, Edge etc)

Visit Google Drive at https://drive.google.com.

In Google Drive you'll see all of the Google documents you have access to, including Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms and other Google document apps.

To Access Google Docs from Google Drive, click on the square made up of dots . 

                   

Starting a new Document and sharing it with your Teacher

Alternatively use this link to go straight to a new Google Docs http://doc.new/

When you have finished your work, it is recommended that you also create a Word Document as well as a Google Docs, please see how to below:

Once you have finished the document, as well as saving the document you can share it straight to your teacher by clicking the Share button. 

 

The share button will then open a dialogue box, click on the 'Get Shareable Link', you can then either send that link via email or you can attach the document that you converted to the email as well.

 

Viewing all our 'Recent Documents' and choosing templates:

If you click the 'Docs' icon in the top left corner, it will redirect you to this page where you can view all of your recently viewed and edited documents as well as the template gallery to give your documents some creativity.

 

The Search Tool

Within the 'Recent Documents', there is a very useful function of being able to search for your documents within Google Docs, this means you do not have to keep going back to your files and trying to search for them this way. If you teacher has sent you a document that you have opened and need to find it again, you can click on the 'Owned by' tab which drops down and you can select 'Not Owned By Me' which will narrow down your documents making them easier to find.