Google permissions and Drive folder structure

Google permissions and the Schoology Google Drive Assignment app

• Creating the assignment automatically creates a new folder structure in your Google Drive, which Schoology uses to organize student copies of the file to make it easier for you to keep your Drive organized. It is important that you do not delete or rename any of the new folders in your Drive.

• Creating an assignment in Schoology does not make any changes to the permissions on the instructor's original Google Document.

• The instructor has the option to select any file in their Drive account (they can use a file they own with any level of permission, or any file that has been shared with them). When each student accesses the Schoology Assignment, a unique copy of that original file is created. Each copy is shared with the instructor and the respective student and can then be edited, annotated, and graded from directly within Schoology.

A primary teacher and a co-teacher cannot both grade student work submitted via Google Drive Assignments. Since we are leveraging Google’s permission-sharing capabilities, at this time, all student copies are only shared with the teacher who created the assignment and the student who opens it. All other visitors to the course, whether co-teachers, admins, advisors, will not be able to see the submission. As a workaround, the course admin who created the assignment can share to any co-teachers and other faculty directly from Google Drive. All student copies are organized into Google Drive folders by course and assignment. This way, the primary teacher may push out all assignments to students in Schoology and share submissions directly from Google Drive via the folder with all student work to the co-teacher. The co-teacher can then view the assignments through Google Drive directly.

Google Drive folder hierarchy

The first time you create an assignment using the Google Drive Assignments app, a new folder called Schoology Google Drive Assignments automatically generates at the root level in your associated Google Drive. With each new assignment you create, new folders populate automatically with the following hierarchy:

• A new folder for the course and section named CourseName: SectionName, plus a numeric identifier to ensure uniqueness, is added in the Schoology Google Drive Assignments folder.

• A new folder with the Assignment name for its title, also appended with a numeric identifier, is added to the course/section folder.

Each time a student makes a copy of the file, it is added to the Assignment folder. The filename is the name you gave it with the student name appended to the beginning.

For example, if you created a new assignment called Grammar Review in Section 1 of an English 101 course, the folder structure would be Schoology Google Drive Assignments > English 101:Section 1+[numeric ID]. If course member Hannah Atkins then creates a copy of the file, it is named Hannah Atkins - Grammar Review+[numeric ID] and placed in the English 101:Section 1+[numeric ID] folder.