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Now, I did not have nearly that much in OneDrive, but to require me to move from 50GB of space to 5GB just left a bad taste in my mouth, especially since Google had just given me 100GB free for two years. There was no grandfathering in, or anything: Microsoft basically decimated the amount of storage available for everyone. Last year, Microsoft announced that for its free accounts, it was reducing the amount of available storage to 5GB.

When other services were giving users more space, Microsoft took space away.

This was my primary motivation for using Google Drive in my course in the first place. This means I do not need to worry about students having access to Word or PowerPoint, as they are going to be able to get my content in a format that works on their device.

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With Google Docs, students can save a copy of the document to their own Google Drive, or can download a copy in MS Office, Open Office, PDF, RTF, TXT, or EPUB formats.

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With OneDrive, students can only save offline copies in two formats: Microsoft’s or a PDF (though they may have added more, since I last used it).

OneDrive has limited support for saving files.

This was my primary motivation for moving away from OneDrive. If a student’s home institution does not have an agreement with Microsoft, the student would have to create an account just to access the course’s files. To me, that added an unnecessary step, where, at best, it required students to log in again to access the files, and at worst, made it more difficult to share files in situations where you have multi-institutional students in your course. You can still share them publicly, but Microsoft requires users to have a OneDrive account, or an agreement like USD’s where they SSO through CAS.

Microsoft took away the option to share files anonymously.

I stopped using OneDrive for a few reasons, in order of most importance to least: This was not the case for Google Slides, and often required reformatting. I believe even transitions and annotations eventually worked, too. So, when I uploaded a PowerPoint slide deck to OneDrive, and gave access to users, it looked exactly like it did in native PowerPoint.

OneDrive had a real advantage in that it was 100% compatible with Office documents-not surprisingly. In both cases, I was using these before USD had integration with them, so I was using my personal account. Because of this, I used OneDrive for all work-related activities, just so I could keep up on both, in case one solution worked better for instructors than another. I have only ever used Google Docs in my course, simply because it was around before OneDrive/Office 365 (which I will just refer to as OneDrive). So enough background, let me get into why I prefer Google Drive over Microsoft OneDrive.

I can easily share these documents outside of the LMS, in case–I do not know– the LMS should barf at the start of the semester and I need to find an alternative way to distribute documents to my students.

slides in one column, notes in another, etc.) directly from the browser

in the case of slides, students can print them out in a variety of different layouts (e.g.

students can download a Google Doc in a variety of formats (DOCX, ODF, PDF, RTF, TXT, EPUB, HTML, etc.).

if I am collaborating with another instructor, it is easy to keep track of who changed what.

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I can update them and changes are immediately reflected.documents appear directly within my course, so students do not need to open up a different app that takes them out of my course.it is (mostly) device agnostic, in that it will look the same on most devices.it is (mostly) browser agnostic, in that it will look the same in every browser.For that reason–and a couple of others–Google Drive fits the bill: One of my primary instructional-design philosophies is that I like to build content in a fashion that makes it convenient for students to consume in a variety of ways, because not every student is the same. Before I get into that, here’s a bit of background in how I use Google Docs/Drive… Her response to my answer was that it was useful and that I should share it with others to see. I had a conversation with an instructor the other day on the topic of Google Drive vs.