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Purpose

Best Practices in setting up a Google Team Drive

Requirements

Required

  • UCSB Connect Account
  • List of Members for the Team Drive (Must have UCSB Connect Accounts)

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  • Departmental Functional Account

Process

Create the Team Drive

First, log onto your UCSB Connect Account on a web browser (Preferably Chrome)

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Note

We recommend, for ease of identification for ETS to help you better, to use the naming convention of <Department> <Folder Function>.

IE: CSI Daily Reports if the Department was CSI and the Folder was for Daily Reports.

Define the Team Drive Settings

Click on the  on the right side of the Team Drive Name to get the following menu

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Note
titleImportant

If the Team Drive is going to contain FERPA related information (See: FERPA Information for Faculty/Staff), Sharing outside University of California, Santa Barbara should be set to Only people inside University of California, Santa Barbara can be given access to the files in this Team Drive.

In some cases, you may also want to set Sharing with non-members to Only members of this Team Drive can access files in this Team Drive to restrict how far the information can be shared.

Add Members

Click on the  on the right side of the Team Drive Name to get the following menu

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Repeat this process if there are other Members who have to be set up with different Team Drive Permissions until you are done.

Finishing Touches

At this point, it is just putting in folders and files into the Team Drive.

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