How Does Your Google Grow?

Directions

1. Go to http://www.google.com/ and click sign in, or go to your google apps for educations start page to sign in.

2. If you already have a Google account type in your email and password to sign in. Otherwise click on the Create an account button or the Sign Up button to sign up with Google.

***You can use any email account to sign up for Google Drive (docs). It does not need to be a gmail account.

3. Fill in all of the required form fields to sign up for the account, read through the Terms of Service, and click on I Accept. Create My Account.

4. You may need to verify your email address you used to create the account by signing into it and clicking on the link that Google Docs sends you. Follow the on screen directions.

What is Google Drive?

What is Google Drive and how is it different from Google Docs.

Google Docs refers to the editors for Google documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, and forms. These are online documents that live in the cloud and provide real-time collaboration features.

Google Drive is the place to access all your files, including both Google Docs and local files that you sync to the cloud. If you used Google Docs prior to April, 2012, Google Drive replaces and enhances what you've previously known as the Google Documents List.

Google Drive is a single place to manage all your files, including Google Docs. Think of Google Drive as your hard drive in the cloud. With Google Drive, you can access files, folders, and Google Docs from the web. No matter what happens to your devices, your files are safely stored in Google Drive.

GAFE users get 30 GB of free storage. Non GAFE users get 15 GB free storage and additional storage can be purchased. Google Docs do not count toward storage quotas.