 Hi everyone, this is Jamie Davis, I'm your peer mentor for Library 203. This is an instructional video on the best ways to use Google documents to collaborate with others. So here I am on the main page of my Gmail inbox and I'm using an email that I don't often use so I don't have a lot of emails to show you but that's what it looks like. So once you have your Gmail you'll be looking at a screen very similar to this and in order to get to the Google Drive, it used to be called Google Documents, it's now called Google Drive, you'll want to come up here and click on Drive. So this is what your Google Drive looks like and what we want to do is create a new document. So I come over here and I click on Create. Now you have a couple of options here. You can create documents, presentations like PowerPoint presentations, spreadsheets like in Excel, forms and drawings and there are other applications that you can also connect to your Google Drive. For the purposes of today we're going to click on Document because I want to show you how you can collaborate in Google Docs. Okay so now we have our first document. So what we want to do is give it a name so we're going to come up here to the top and click on Untitled Document and we're going to put Document 1. So now that we have a document I'm going to go ahead and add some text. Some text. Be right back. Okay so here's some text by the magic of the internet. It has just magically appeared. Okay so for the purposes of this instructional video let's just make pretend that you're in a group for class and you're working on a resume and this is the resume that you're working on together. So you set up your Google document and you want to add people to share it with you. You want to share it with your teammates so you come up here to the Share button and you'll see that you have a couple of options and what I want to do is add my fiance. So I'm going to put his email in here, thesters at gmail.com and you can decide whether you want your teammate to be able to edit, only comment or only view. So only view meaning literally that they will only be able to view the document and will not be able to comment or edit. I'm going to allow him to edit because I want him to have full access to the document and then you would click share and save. You could add by putting comma and then adding other people as well. You can see at the top you can also share the links via social media and you can change the actual status. If it's private it's not going to be found on a Google search engine, that's usually how we like it or anyone with the link would be fine too. Okay so we're going to share and save with him. Now if he came into the document we could actually chat in real time. If you see this button up here next to comments you can chat in real time but as it says no one else is signed into chat right now so we won't be able to play with that but one thing I would like to show you is how you can comment. So you highlight a passage that you'd like to leave a comment for your teammate. You right click and click on comment. You would write your comment and then click on comment. So now when your teammate comes back they can actually click on that and reply to your comment. So you can work back and forth like this and create comments all down the document and you can work in live. I hope this has helped you and I hope that you use it in SLIS with your teams as I have found it very helpful throughout the program. Have a wonderful day.