Google Drive -- setting permissions (March 9, 2021)

Dear EISEF adult sponsors:

Nearly all of your students have chosen to save their project posters and photos to Google Drive, then link there for their video presentations. Most of them have managed this just fine.

Most of them. Some are trying and failing. The main failing is that they set/leave the permissions on the saved files so that most people (like the judges…) can’t view them.

I don’t use Google Drive; I have no idea how to set the permissions for universal viewing. Please, those of you who have managed to do this, quickly write up your instructions, email them to me, and I’ll forward them to everybody.

Help me, adult sponsors — you’re my only hope.

To change sharing settings so everyone can view the link:

1. On Google Drive, right click on the document you want to share
2. Click on Get Link
3. Click on the “restricted” dropdown and select “anyone with the link”
4. Copy link and paste in EISEF Video Submission Form
5. Click blue “done” button on Google Drive
6. Double check if the link allows everyone access by having a parent/teacher access your materials through their Gmail account (emphasis added)

Hope this helps!

I am hoping that I did this right for my students and below are instructions of what teachers need to do if they used GoogleDrive.

1. Go to your Drive
2. Find the document(s) on your drive
3. When you click on the file (don’t need to open the document), click the little chain icon (Get Link)
4. Underneath of the link that comes up, click to make sure it is marked as “Anyone With The Link” as a “Viewer”
5. Make sure this is for each document that you have shared and uploaded (you will need to do this for each one and then copy and paste the new link onto Eastern’s website, as it makes a new website link when setting is changed)