

Message people directly for private conversations with a colleague or a small group of people.Collaborate in spaces with group discussions with separate conversation threads.

In addition to the standard chat facility, which allows you to directly communicate with one or more users, you can also create dedicated spaces for your team with threaded conversations, helping you communicate and collaborate better when working across locations. Google Chat is a messaging platform designed for team collaboration. You can also back up files from your PC onto Drive. You can choose to either stream the files so they are accessible online without having to download the files on your PC, or to mirror files, which downloads an offline copy of all your Drive files on your PC. Google Drive for desktop allows you to access Drive files and Shared drives on-demand from your PC. After you move it to the Shared drive, ownership of the document transfers from you to the team.

Shared drives can also be synchronised to a desktop using Google Drive for desktop. External users (non-UM accounts) can also be added for collaboration purposes, provided they have a Google account. This means that folders/files will not disappear if the original creator of the folders/files leaves UM.Īll members belonging to the Shared drive can see all the files and folders, but there are five distinct role memberships that can be assigned: Manager, Content manager, Contributor, Commenter and Viewer. Unlike files in My Drive, the files in Shared drives belong to the team instead of an individual. Shared drives (formerly known as Team Drives) should be used instead of My Drive for team collaboration to avoid access problems when the creator of the shared folders/files leaves UM.
