Learn about Shared drives
Please read the Google Drive FAQ on our website (navigation: technology.catholic.edu > Resources > Use Cardinal Mail > Google Drive). The FAQ has information you will need in answering the template questions when submitting your Shared drive request.
Requesting a Shared drive
Each Shared drive must be sponsored by a school, department or office.
To request a new Shared drive, please create a service request ticket by pasting the template below along with your answers in an email message to techsupport@cua.edu.
The information you need to answer these questions is described in more detail in the website article linked above.
Shared drive request template
- Shared drive name. What is the proposed name of the Shared drive? We will use a short department name prefix for each Team Drive, e.g., PSY-Common.
- Permissions. How many permission types will you use for the Shared drive? Just read/write? Or will some people need contributor or read-only access?
- Google Groups for Shared drive access. We use Google Groups to permission Shared drives. Do you already have a Group that has the necessary members, or do you want one created for this purpose?
- Shared drive owners. What are the email addresses (not names) for the two or three people who will be the owners of the Google Groups associated with the Shared drive. Also please provide your department head’s email address, as he or she will be authorized to request changes if no owners are available.
- Shared drive members (optional). Technology Services can populate the Shared drive Google Group for you if you provide the email addresses (not names) of those who should have access to the Drive.