Having a submission to a specific google drive

[TrevorOftedal]

Is there a way for my students to submit an assignment through canvas and have it go to a specific folder in google drive? 

I tried doing the "Google Drive Cloud" assignment under "Submission Type" but I couldn't link a Folder. 

Thank you.

[ProfessorBeyrer · Accepted solution]

Hello, @TrevorOftedal. The Google Drive Cloud assignment follows a different path than the one you described. It takes a file in your Google Drive and creates a copy in each of your students' Google Drives when they select the link inside Canvas. When they submit their edited copy of that file it becomes a PDF file inside your Canvas course, where you can provide feedback via the SpeedGrader. That's the "folder" where those submissions end up. It's not the same as Google Classroom, where the teacher is added as an editor to a Google Drive file once the student submits it.

[EC14]

Is there anyway to just allow them to submit the assignment to a specfic Drive Folder? I don't need them to locate the assignment in drive just upload documentation

[ProfessorBeyrer]

The best way to collect documentation/files from students is to use a Canvas tool like Assignments (confidential submissions) or Discussions (public submissions). You could also ask students to send you files via the Messages (Inbox), but that lacks the direct connection to course activities like the other tools. If you use an Assignment, submitted files can be downloaded all at ones with the students' names prepended to the filenames.

Unfortunately Google Drive does not offer a dropbox-like function where a folder can be set up to allow other users to upload a file without the ability to remove files uploaded by others. And you would either have to make the folder open to anyone with the link or know all of your students' Google user accounts so you could share the folder only with those users. I would love to know what Google Drive offers that would be worth losing confidence in the integrity of items submitted to that folder.