While Drive is great, not every school is a Google Apps for Education school, which makes using Google Drive and other Google services a bit more challenging for a classroom teacher. I know; this was my situation for three years.
Here are four possible situations:
- Students have no email access
- Students have non-gmail access (provided by the school or via a personal account- Yahoo, AOL, Outlook, etc)
- Student have personal Gmail accounts
- Students have Google Apps for Education account provided by their school.
Google Drive CAN be used in each of these situations although your features and options will differ. Check out the infographic below for an overview of what will and will not be available:
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Ultimately, it is best if your school adopts Google Apps for Education so that you can take full advantage of the rich collaboration and creation tools that are provided. In the meantime, you can still use Google Drive with your students to some extent.
Hi Paul! I completely agree. I simply provide this comparison to make people aware of the features that will be available via each situation. I also would not advocate that a classroom teacher ask/suggest that a student setup a personal Gmail account for school use.
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