Sharing a Google Drive Folder

Log into your Google Drive account.

Google drive

Make sure you’re in the right account that you’ll be sharing your data with me (the CCSU.EDU one).

switch accounts

Make sure it says Google Drive at the top left and not Google Sheets.

If you’re in Google Sheets mode, click on the menu at the top left and nagivate to Google Drive

switch to drive

Also, make sure you’re in List view and not Grid view.

The image below is Grid view. Click the button selected to switch to List view.

list view

Create a new folder by clicking New on the top left and selecting Folder.

New folder

Name the folder JRN-418 Homework and click Create.

Name folder

Right click the newly created folder and select Share.

Share folder

Type in my email address: abtran AT gmail.com and click send.

Type in my address

Now when you create spreadsheets or documents, you can expand the My Drive folder on the left and drag files from folder view into the JRN-418 Homework folder. They will automatically get shared with me.

drag file into shared drive

Click into the folder and you can see the files you’ve shared with me.

Google drive