
It lets you backup your files, too so they will never get lost. Please contact the ITS Helpdesk at x5999 for assistance with any file share-related inquiries.Google Drive lets you store your files in the cloud, and importantly sync these files and settings across multiple devices. If you are an employee of the College, check with your supervisor or department head before using a cloud service to store College data. If you’ve been unable to log in for more than a day, but your password works with other Carleton services (like email), please contact the ITS Helpdesk at x5999 for help. Carleton accounts in Google are populated once a day by an automated process.log into Google Drive with your personal account in Firefox, and with your Carleton account in Chrome). The easiest ways to avoid issues are to either log out of any other Google account before logging in your Carleton credentials, or to use different web browsers for each account (e.g. If you have a personal Google account in addition to the one provided by Carleton, it can be tricky to manage which account has access to which files.To log in to Google with your Carleton username and password, visit Carleton Google Login.

Files stored in Google Drive are available via the web on any device with a web browser, and via dedicated apps on computers running MacOS X and Windows, as well as on iPads, iPhones, Android phones and tablets, and Windows phones. Google Drive is one of many ‘apps’ provided for free to the higher education community by Google.

Files stored in the cloud are easily accessible from anywhere in the world and on a wide variety of devices, but may be less secure than files stored in the on-campus file shares managed by ITS.

Choosing where to store your digital files, whether they’re Word documents, pictures, music files, databases, or something else, is a process of balancing the need for access from multiple locations, security, and the need to share the files with other people.
