All students and staff accounts at the University of York include access to Google Apps for Education. The University uses Google Mail for email, and Google Drive for online storage. Use the links below to find out more about the range of Google Apps available.

A look at the wide range of Google apps available through G Suite For Education and how to make the most of them. We look at the cloud model and the collaborative sharing features in Google through the use of Gmail, Calendar, Groups, Drive, and much more, and demonstrate practical examples that can be adapted for your own work.

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The G Suite applications enable you to work collaborative on documents, slides and sheets. This introduction provides an overview of some of the Google applications on offer that you can use for group work, such as writing your final report or presentation, organising meetings and sharing your findings. Make your group projects more efficient by tapping into the functionally offered using Google apps for collaboration.

Some of the documents in the project need to be shared more widely for view/comment

• Share documents (or a sub-folder) with View or Comment permissions with other specified users or groups

All the documents in one sub-folder need to be shared with another team for editing

• Add the second team's Google Group to the share permissions, but just for the sub-folder
• In this scenario full Edit permissions would allow them to move documents out of the folder - make sure they know what they're doing

An existing Word document needs to be collaboratively updated by the project team; the finished document needs to be in Word format

• Upload the Word document into the shared folder structure, choosing to convert to a Google document
• The team can now edit as normal, use comments, suggestions and chat
• When editing is complete, download it as a Word document. You will need to do a final tidy up and reformatting of the Word document