Teachers and students have the ability to link their KCS Google Drives. This gives course designers the flexibility to not only author items directly in Canvas, but also to access items in Drive to use in conjunction with their Canvas content.

Students must have their Google accounts attached to Canvas in order to view the documents that teachers have posted. Teachers can post files like this for students to view. We can see here that this is a Google Slides file that's living directly on a Canvas page.

Teachers can also create Google Cloud assignments, where a Google file serves as the base for an assignment. An individual copy of the file is turned into a template and distributed to each student. The assignment generates an assignment submission path, where students submit their finished files.

In order to take advantage of these features, you must integrate your Google and Canvas accounts. Here's how to do that:

1. On your Canvas screen, click your account icon, then open Settings.
2. Be sure that you're logged out of any personal Google accounts that you may be logged into in your browser, any other open tabs, or any other open windows that you have.
3. Once your Settings page opens, scroll about halfway down the page to Web Services.
4. Under Other Services, you should see Google Drive on the right. If Google Drive is on the left under Registered Services, you have already completed this task.
5. Once you click Google Drive, you will be asked a series of authorization questions.
6. After going through the authorization steps, you'll now see Google Drive as a registered service.

From here, you're ready to use Drive in conjunction with Canvas.

To embed a file from Google Drive into your Canvas Pages:

1. Click Edit to access the Rich Content Editor.
2. From here, click the plug icon and select Google Apps.
3. You will now see the contents of your Google Drive. Yours may look different if you have chosen to view your files as a list or as tiles.
4. Select the file you wish to use. Once you've clicked the file, you'll be given the option to add it.

Please note: You may only embed files that are owned by you. If someone has shared a file with you and you are not the original owner, you will not be able to embed the Google file.

If your Google and Canvas integration begins to malfunction, you can delete the integration by clicking the red X next to the registered Google Drive account. Then, re-establish the integration by following the process you originally used to establish it earlier in this guide.

If you'd like to know more about using Google Cloud assignments, please view our videos covering Canvas and Google Cloud assignments.