Posting Assignments and The Electronic Portfolio

Process:

• Create or open a google account.
• To access folder you will need to open your Gmail drive.
• In your Gmail drive, you will find your course folder under Shared With Me found at the far right in your drive. 
• Once you find your course folder in the shared with me, you will want to move it to your drive. To do this you will right click on your folder and choose to Add To My Drive.  From here on your folder will be found in your drive and moved out of the shared with me. 
• In your shared folder, you will find your electronic portfolio and space to house your course assignments. 
• Within your shared folder, you will be able to write your assignments by selecting New at the upper right within your drive.  Follow the drop down to Google Docs. At the google docs pan over and select from a template. At the templates find the APA format and select. 
• Once you have chosen the APA template you will begin to write your assignments by deleting out areas of the template and adding your writing. Begin with the header. APA format requires that the R in Running head remains, although the title is written in all upper case. Also, the title should be a condensed version of your actual paper. Once you have made these corrections, the preceding pages will automatically include your condensed version of the title minus the Running head. Complete the title with you information, delete out the Author Notes and for weekly assignments, you are not required to include an Abstract. Delete the abstract page. The following pages are where you will write your introductory paragraph, include your written body and conclusion. Delete out those areas already written within the template down to the reference page. If you are not familiar with APA rule for the reference page go to the Graduate Research and Writing Assistance found at the blog site for assistance with your references. 
• Once you have completed your written assignment you will want to name it appropriately. This is found at the upper left of your written document. You will also want to choose Share at the upper right of this document. You will also want to select the Advanced Settings found at the bottom of this drop-down. Seek the Private setting and select. There will be 3 selections, Choose anyone with the link. Finally, in share, you will want to add the course email address which is sintegleska088@gmail.com 
• Once you close your assignment it will automatically be added to your folder and a note will come to me indicating that I can now edit your written assignment created with Google Docs. 
• If this is still confusing to you, let me know.