When an instructor or a student creates a collaboration, they choose a type of Drive file for collaborators to work on. They can select the collaborators from their learning management system (LMS) course to share the Drive file. For example, they can create a:
- Document in Google Docs
- Presentation in Google Slides
- Spreadsheet in Google Sheets
To open the collaboration from their LMS for the first time, the user added as a collaborator can join with their Google Workspace for Education or Google Account. Assignments automatically manages the collaboration Drive file permissions. A collaborator automatically gets edit access to the Drive file when they join.
FAQs
What Drive files can instructors or students use for Collaborations?Instructors and students can use Collaborations with the following Google Drive files:
- Docs
- Slides
- Sheets
- Forms
- Jams
- Drawings
- Sites
When you open the collaboration Drive file, you can check the file permissions. You have:
- Edit access if you can edit the file.
- View only permissions if you can’t edit the file.
To check the file permissions of other collaborators, learn how to share files from Google Drive.
If you're the owner or a collaborator of a collaboration, you can stop sharing the file.
When users reopen the collaboration in Canvas even after their access to the Drive file is removed, they regain access to the file.
When you use Collaborations, Assignments is granted access to your Google Drive account to manage collaboration Drive files. To remove this access, you can manage your access to Google Assignments.
The collaboration’s Drive file sharing settings match the sharing settings set up for the Google Workspace domain of the collaboration creator’s Google Workspace for Education account. To modify these settings for your domain, set up Drive file sharing for Assignments.