Week 6 - Google Docs Online Collaboration
EDT 5410 Week 6 Google Docs Online Collaboration
I chose to collaborate with a work colleague for the Google Docs Online Collaboration mini-project. We will offer training next month for the worldwide Fix Your Content Day with Blackboard Ally. It's an opportunity for us to work directly with faculty to highlight the importance of making content accessible for all students. We host a workshop where we explain what accessibility is, demonstrate features in Blackboard, and give them time to work on their courses. This project gave my co-worker and me a start on some initial brainstorming about what we need to prepare for that day.
I have used Google Docs previously and have shared the document with others in link form. Our university is not what is referred to as a "Google school," and our IT Department strongly dislikes the use of it for security reasons. Due to this, I have not collaborated with someone on the same document in Google, though I have through MS Teams. Spoiler alert: I like Google better, but perhaps that is because I am more familiar with it. I did have trouble showing the name or even email address of my colleague in version history. Initially, I shared the link with her to her university email, but that only shows up as an anonymous user because it is not a Gmail. She does have a Google email, and I sent the link to that next, and now you can see her name when looking at version history within Google Docs itself, but not in the embedded image here. I've included a screenshot below the embedded doc with the version history.
Mini Project Collab - Fix Your Content Day
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