Collaboration Services News and Updates

Blankets snuggled tight, a cozy scene: Declutter, declutter, make it serene! Just like your own home, your VCU Google Workspace account may begin to accumulate extra items, such as mail and files in Drive, that you might not need anymore and can be trashed, or might be good to put away in an appropriate place […]

Welcome back from Fall break! We’re happy to announce a more organized way to see what Drive files you have that need activity from you on both the Web and Mobile, a new way to respond to some of those things through the Drive app for Google Chat, and 1:1 Google Meet calls on mobile. […]

Table of contents Apps Script View & compare script versions with Apps Script project history Google Calendar New Google Calendar appointment scheduling features Google Chat In-line replies now available within announcement spaces in Google Chat See message view counts in Google Chat spaces Expanding autocorrect to Google Chat on web Copy space member email address […]

Google Chat will be receiving two major (and positive!) updates that will affect your day-to-day use of the service, including a fresh coat of paint that will bring a more modernized visual experience and the conversion of older threading-style of Google Chat Spaces by “topic” to in-line threading.  Spaces threaded by “topic” will be converted […]

The Collaboration Services team is excited to welcome or welcome back all students, faculty, and staff to the Fall 2023 semester! Below we’ve rounded up everything you need to know as we get started with the new semester. To subscribe to our blog, click the “Follow” button on the left side of the page and […]

Welcome to Week 8, our final week of our Ramscaping challenge! This week we’re cleaning out our Shared Drives and setting up long term methods for maintaining them. 🎉 Congratulations to our Ramscaping Week 7 winner, Sam K.! ⏪ If you missed last week, click here to see last week’s post. 🗓️ Weekly Goal: Schedule […]

Welcome to Week 7 of our Ramscaping challenge! This week we dive into Shared Drives, which are shared spaces that allow a team, project, department, etc. to store collaborative files.  ⏪ If you missed last week, click here to see last week’s post. 🎉 Congratulations to Scottie W., our Week 6 Ramscaping winner! 🗓️ Weekly […]

Welcome to Week 6 of our Ramscaping challenge! This week we continue, and conclude, our personal Drive cleanup. We’ll be searching for the oldest files in Drive, checking we aren’t needlessly backing up files via Drive for Desktop, and taking out the trash. However, this isn’t the end of clean-up in Drive, as next week […]

We interrupt your weekly Ramscaping broadcast with April through July’s new Google features blog post, where we’ll discuss the latest new features now available or rolling out to your VCU Google account. Ramscaping will resume on Wednesday! Since we have so much to cover, we will be using a slightly different format this time and […]

Welcome to Week 5 of our Ramscaping challenge! This week we’re officially entering the Drive-cleanup portion of the challenge and looking at ways for how to identify the largest files in Drive, which can be the quickest and easiest way to reduce storage usage. ⏪ If you missed last week, click here to see last […]