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Description of the Shared Drive Permissions and what they are.
Google Shared Drive permissions have five (5) levels of Permissions.
When Adding Members, it is wisest to do it based on their role.
The manager is literally the owner of the Shared Drive and can do the following:
This should be for people who are familiar with what the Shared Drive is for and who should have access to it, such as MSOs or Managers.
The content manager manages the content within the Shared Drive, such as:
This should be for people who are familiar with what should be in the Shared Drive and keep it organized, such as Staff.
The contributor can only do the following:
They cannot delete or move files within the Shared Drive, even if they were the one who created the file/folder.
This should be for people who provide and maintain the files that are for the Shared Drive, such as Student Workers.
The commenter permission basically allows the user to view files within the Shared Drive.
In the case of some Google Documents, such as Google Docs, Sheets or Slides, the commenter can provide recommended changes that a Contributor, Content Manager or Manager can approve the change.
This permission should be set on members who are only going to review the material and make suggestions.
Viewer only has read access to the files in the Shared Drive.
This should be for people who just need to read information, such as the general group.