End of Year Digital Clean-up

In This Edition:

  • Digital Declutter: tips for students and teachers on how to organize their digital worlds before the end of the school year.
  • Tips for preparing your Google Drive for next school year
  • Shortcut: Colour-code your Google folders

 

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Your Weekly Digital Learning Compendium

OUR FOCUS THIS WEEK

Hey there, Vampires! 🦇

As the school year draws to a close (only 6.5 school days to go, folks!), we take a look at some end-of-year tasks that you might like to take care of.

These could include:

  • Archiving this year’s files
  • Deleting duplicate files
  • Re-organising your Google folders
  • Getting your Inbox to ZERO unread emails! Is that even possible?

In this Edition:

  • Digital Declutter: tips for students and teachers on how to organize their digital worlds before the end of the school year.
  • Tips for preparing your Google Drive for next school year
  • Shortcut: Colour-code your Google folders

REMINDERS/UPDATES

Time for a Digital Declutter

Help your students to clean up and organise their digital worlds before the end of the school year. Here is a short slideshow with suggestions.

For faculty, you might want to consider having a Digital Declutter over the break to boost productivity and minimize distractions!

Power up your Google Drive for next school year

🗄 100GB Google Drive Storage Limit
This limit applies to both individual teacher ‘My Drives’ and ‘Shared Drives’. Start thinking about archiving this year’s documents and making sure you have enough space to create new files next year!
**Make sure that all collaborative documents are in Shared Drives.**
If you are not sure what goes where, check out the nifty boxes below to help you figure it out.
  • Personal documents
  • Documents that no one else works on
  • Everything else!
                                          
 
Watch G’s 2-minute tutorial on how to:
– identify how much storage you are currently using with your school account
– quickly delete some of these larger files.

Also, check out Troy’s ‘All Things Drive’ video – start at 05:55 for storage tips and information about important documents and ‘shared with me’ files.

SHORTCUT

While you are organizing your Google Drive, you might like to colour-code your folders to make them easier to find. Here’s how you can do that: