Completion requirements
E-TIVITY 8.2 [3 hours]
The purpose of this e-tivity is to help you to understand cloud services and use different cloud computing platforms in data sharing and explore more available google services in facilitation of learning.
Watch a video on Introduction to Cloud services available on the link:
watch the video
1.Google Apps for Education Tutorial
Task 1
1. Discuss the importance of cloud computing
2. Identify different cloud services available for data sharing
4. 3.Choose one for example Dropbox, go to its website www.dropbox.com
5. Register and Create an account
3. Download dropbox app on your smartphone/ your computer. App settings – > link a computer, follow instructions
4. Install local desktop client on computer and locate your dropbox folder under favorite section.
5. Create a folder system after following structure.
6. Share all folders with the person sitting on your left, use different sharing options – via link, sharing folders, share through desktop client and through web client
7. Open files and change their content, save and close them.
8. Open Events section and see the changes done by you and people who have shared documents with you.
9. Take a picture and add it to your Dropbox folder.
Suggested length 100 words maximum.
Reply at least one post and share your views (if applicable) with your colleagues’ predictions.
Task 2
Use Google Docs for software as services to do the following:
• Create a document
o Publish a document
• Create a spreadsheet
o Publish and insert spreadsheet
o Setup and print spreadsheets
• Create a Presentation
o Show a presentation, print it and get a preview
o Publish and insert presentation
• Drawing
o Create, edit and format
o Tools
o Add elements to a drawing
• Forms
o Create a Google form
o Add and edit questions, headers, images, videos and page breaks
o Create a questionnaire with five different type of question asking the respondents to give feedback on a product of your choice
o Add a theme to a form
o Send the form to the rest of the class
o respond to other questionnaires
o Chose responses destination
Suggestion length 100 words maximum.
This E-tivity 8.2 has to be done before Friday at 23h 59’.
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