Drive your productivity with Google Workspace

Date: August 20, 2026
Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET

Overhead view of a person typing on a laptop at a desk with a notebook and writing supplies.

Location: Virtual
Open To: Faculty, Contract Lecturers, and Staff

About

Google Workspace enhances academic and administrative efficiency by unifying your institutional communication and file management into one secure, cloud-based platform. Real-time collaboration and seamless integration between Gmail, Google Meet, and Calendar streamlines your daily work. This session is to help users understand how to store, organize, find and share files in Google Drive.

Topics covered include:

Google Drive layout and navigation
Uploading and creating files
Organizing files and folders
Sharing and permissions
My Drive vs Shared with Me vs Shared Drives
Why departments should use Shared Drives
Working with Microsoft files in Drive
Drive for desktop
Basic Security and best practices

This Get Tech Ready session is brought to you by Computing and Communications Services (CCS), in collaboration with the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT).

Host

CCS Academic Services

Contact

Jassika Ledwani (help@torontomu.ca)