The Best Way to Distribute your Google Docs

Google Docs are by far one of my favorite classroom tools to use, but sometimes it may get confusing when it comes to sharing.  If you do not have access to Google Classroom, than this blog post will show you how to get a Google Doc to your students without them changing your content.

If you are a Google Docs user, than I am sure this has happened to you as well.  Let's say that you type up a study guide for an upcoming test to pass out to your students.  When you go to share that, you accidentally chose "Anyone with the link can edit."  If you have done that, than you know the pain it caused. ....Now when your students open the study guide, they have the ability to change, add, or delete anything.  Say goodbye to your original document.

To prevent this from happening, there are a couple of things you can do.

1.  The most obvious option is changing your sharing settings to "Anyone with the link can view."
2. Another way to distribute this document would be having the students make a copy of your study guide to prevent them from changing the original.  Students can do this themselves in their Drive, but I want it to be done for them to make this process as easy as possible.  To do this, check out the 3 minute video tutorial below.

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