How to use Google Drive

Get started with Google Drive

Your account is a Workspace Education account which is managed by Bay Path University’s IT department. Google Workspace storage is shared between multiple services offered by Google:

• Gmail: Email services

• Drive: File sharing services

• Photos: Photos and other media

Google Photos is disabled across the University. If you have a legitimate business need access to Google Photos, please reach out to IT at techsupport@baypath.edu for access.

Accessing Google Drive

To use Google Drive, visit http://drive.baypath.edu, and sign in with your Bay Path UserID and Password.

You can choose between Home and My Drive as your Google Drive start page. To change your start page, go to Settings → Settings and set your preference.

Upload or create files

You can upload files from your computer or create files in Google Drive.

• Upload files and folders to Google Drive

• Work with Office files

• Create, edit, and format Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides

When creating files in Google Drive, by default, Google Workspace will use Google’s productivity tools, which have “rough” equivalency with Microsoft Office 365 productivity tools.

Share and organize files

You can share files or folders, so other people can access, edit, or comment on them.

• Share files from Google Drive

• Shae folders from Google Drive

• Make someone else the owner of a file

If you would like to share files or data with those in your department, or cross functional groups across the University, the IT department strongly recommends that a Shared Drive is configured in Google Drive.

To find files that other people have shared with you, go to the Shared with me section.

Searching for files in Google Drive