Creating a google document

To create a Google Document, click create, then choose document.

You will enter a screen that looks like this:

Just like Microsoft Word, Google Document is a word processor.  But unlike Word, this saves automatically and you can access this file wherever you have an internet connection.  It is saved online or we like to call it, "in the cloud".

You can also share this document with anyone that has a google doc account by clicking on the share button in the top right hand corner. And you will see this:

Simply enter the email address of the person you would like to share with in the box below "invite people:".  If this person is a teacher, it will most likely be his or her school board first name, . , last name, @gapps.yrdsb.ca.  So if Rob Ford was a teacher, you would enter rob.ford@gapps.yrdsb.ca into that box.  If you would like to share the document with a student, you will need his or her account number.  This is NOT his OEN number, this is the number that they use to enter a school computer.  (You can find the student account number by accessing the student account file on your network drive under the student account folder.)

You can have multiple users working on the same file simultaneously if you give permission by choosing "can edit" when you share your doc with someone.  Keep in mind that will also give them permission to delete whatever you have on the document.