Austin Community College District (ACC) is updating its Google Shared Drive service to better manage storage and ensure business continuity. The change allows us to prevent data and storage from accumulating after students graduate or leave ACC.<\/p>\n
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What’s Changing?<\/strong><\/p>\n As of December 15th, 2024. Students will no longer be able to create shared drives.<\/strong> However, faculty and staff will continue to be able to create Shared Drives and can invite students to participate. Faculty advisors can also create Shared Drives for student organizations, ensuring that collaborative efforts are still supported.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Students can still share files and collaborate using their personal Google Drive (My Drive).<\/p>\n To continue to improve the security and performance of our infrastructure, the student-shared drives (not personal drives) themselves will be removed entirely.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Data on any existing student shared drives will be removed on May 15th, 2025.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n These changes safeguard our active students attending ACC so they do not lose access to their data.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Click here <\/a>to find out how data can be exported from a shared drive.<\/p>\n Click here <\/a>to watch a video to learn how to download files from Google Drive.<\/p>\n For more information, please access the Google Workspace for Education website<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Questions\/Issues, please contact:<\/p>\n ACC Students: Contact the Student Helpline – 512-223-4636<\/p>\n ACC Staff: Contact the ACC Service Desk – 512-223-8324<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thank you,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Office of Information Technology<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n This article was created and is maintained by <\/span>Student Technology Services<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\nContact Support<\/b><\/h2>\n