30 GB of Space!

Google is increasing our space and changing the allocation!  Not sure when it will hit Clemson - but watch for it...  We'll have 30 GB shared with Gmail, Drive, Sites, etc.

Host your web site in Google Drive!!!!!

If you have an old web site (HTML) you can create a public folder in your Google Drive, drag your files into it, and host your web site from there!!!!!

New Edit Layout

Clemson's Google Apps for Education had a change made last week (April, 2013) in the way you edit the sidebar navigation or horizontal navigation.  Now instead of More, Manage Site, Layout - you click on More, Edit Layout.  Here's a 2 minute video showing the new menus:

Change in Google Sites Navigation Editing!

Old way:  click on More, Manage Site, Site Layout

New way: click on More, Edit Site Layout:

You will see this:

Templates for Google Documents MOVED!!!!!!!!

If you are used to finding templates in Google Drive by clicking on New, Template --- it's  no longer there!!!

Here is the new method.  Click on New, Document (or spreadsheet, or presentation).  Once you are in your new blank document, click on New, from Template.  Now you'll see all of the Clemson and public templates!

Google Forms 2013 Video Tutorials

Here are some great short video tutorials for Google Forms 2013:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtmGHS73TAya2DZ9yfB68I9_u0TCS4L-n

Get Old PicasaWeb Photo Albums

If you have not tried it yet, PicasaWeb photo albums are a great way to store, share, and publish sets of photos on a Google Site - or just a place to stash them.  To get to it, after logging in to your Google account, open a new tab and type in http://picasaweb.google.com. Upload your photos into folder - caption them if you want - edit them if you want.  In Google Sites, there is an option Insert, PicasaWeb Photo Albums - and the albums you upload will appear as choices.  You can make them self advancing (as many as are in one album).

One thing that has been very annoying lately is that if you have Google+ there is a totally different interface than if you do not.  There is a solution for this!!!

Right after you start picasaweb.google.com, if you have Google+ a brief yellow option comes up - "Click here to go back to Picasa Web Albums".  Click on the word here and you'll go to the old interface.  Yay!!!

 

Thanks to this page for the complete instructions:

http://abcictsolutions.blogspot.com/2013/02/google-sharing-and-embedding-photo.html