How do I download my stuff?
It was spring of 2016 and our senior class at Angola High School moved on to bigger and better things. I had just finished my first year at MSD of Steuben. My technology director, Chantell Manahan, had started in January and it was her first time in a position in the technology world as she was fresh out of the classroom. Admittedly, we had (still have) much to learn and much of that occurs through mistakes. It was at this time that Chantell and myself started to receive emails from parents and students requesting access to content that students had created in their Google Drive.
We had made the senior class accounts go dormant in the summer of 2016. It had apparently slipped our minds that this would be a necessary step. In our Google Admin Console, we have it set so that students cannot log out of their school account nor utilize an incognito window. The current plan is to allow our senior class to launch an incognito window in the final quarter, create a new or utilize an existing Gmail account, and transfer their Google Drive and Gmail content to a personal account.
Staff retirees
We also have quite a few staff members that would like access to their Google Drive content after they leave. Obviously, not all content is desired. Teachers will want to be sure that they are conscious of transferring documents containing personally sensitive materials to their own account. I would recommend removing those items prior to transfer. If this proves to be too difficult, it might be easier to download the desired content and upload it into your personal Google account. Either method would work.
Why transfer?
You have quite a few options for moving your content. You could download all your content using Google Takeout. The majority of teachers would find it to be cumbersome to decide what elements to keep and then go through the process of transferring by manually uploading content. I like the idea of using the Google Takeout Transfer option because it only lets you choose between Gmail and Drive. That's usually all the content that teachers really want. Also, it automatically moves it over. There is no need for a teacher to go through the steps of uploading content to a personal account; Transfer does it for them.
Want a quicker route for accessing the transfer site? Visit: https://takeout.google.com/transfer
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