Austin Community College District (ACC) is updating its Shared Drive service to better manage storage and ensure business continuity. The change allows the College to prevent data and storage from accumulating after students graduate or leave ACC.
What’s Changing?
Students will no longer be able to create shared drives. 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.
Although students will lose the ability to create new Shared Drives, they can still share files and collaborate using their personal Google Drive (My Drive). Existing Shared Drives shared with students will also remain accessible for collaboration.
With the intention to continue to improve the security and performance of our infrastructure, the student-shared drives (not personal drives) themselves will be removed entirely. More information on that will be coming in the near future.
These changes safeguard our active students attending ACC so they do not lose access to their data.
For more information, please access the Google Workspace for Education website.