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Teach from your Google Drive, live on the whiteboard.

For teachers and tutors who plan in Google Workspace. Paste a link to a Google Doc, Sheet or Slides deck from your Google Drive™ into your Space, and it appears on the whiteboard, ready for everyone with access to work on together.

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In a Space? Open the Apps list and choose Google Docs, Sheets or Slides.

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Share “Photosynthesis”

General access

Anyone with the linkCan open the deckViewer

Ms. Kim’s Biology classShared with the classEditor

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Biology · Photosynthesis

Paste the link in your Space. The deck appears on the board.

About Google Drive

Your lessons already live in Drive. Teach them from there.

Google Drive is Google’s cloud storage and the home of Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Forms. Schools and tutors use it to plan lessons, share files and work on them together in real time.

“Simple and scalable cloud storage for people and teams of all sizes.”

How Google describes Google Drive, at workspace.google.com

15 GB to 5 TB

of storage per user

100 TB

shared across an institution on Workspace for Education

Real time

editing together in Docs, Sheets and Slides

What Google Drive does

My DriveShared drivesSharing and permissionsReal-time collaborationDocs, Sheets, Slides and Forms

Google Drive handles

Your files and folders

Who can view, comment or edit

The document itself, kept in one place

Your Google sign-in

handles

Showing the file on the whiteboard

Video and an infinite, shared whiteboard

Breakout rooms and apps like Desmos and Kahoot

Nothing to install: it runs in the browser

Google Drive is a trademark of Google LLC. Figures and quote as published by Google at workspace.google.com.

What opens

Paste a link, and it lands on the board.

Google files stay in Google. Share the file with your students, paste its link, and everyone works on the same file.

Google Docs

A shared document

Read a passage or draft the lesson plan together.

Google Sheets

A shared spreadsheet

Work through a practice set or a data table as a class.

Google Slides

Your slides

Present the deck you already made, on the board.

How to use it

On the board in three steps.

There’s nothing to set up. You just need the file’s link.

Copy the shareable link.

In Google Drive, open the file’s share settings and copy its link. Make sure everyone who needs the file has permission to open it.

Open the Apps list.

In your Space, open the Apps list and choose Google Docs, Google Sheets or Google Slides.

Paste and import.

Paste the link and click Import. The file appears on the whiteboard, ready to use.

Google Docs guide Contact support

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Which Google files can I bring in?

Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. Each has its own app in the Apps list.

Do my students need access to the file?

Yes. Everyone who works on the file needs permission to open it. Check its sharing settings in Google Drive before class.

Is there anything to install?

No. Pencil Spaces runs in the browser.

Get started

Bring your Drive into class.

Start teaching from the files you already have.

New to Pencil Spaces

See it with your own lessons.

Book a call and we’ll show you how your Docs and Slides work on the whiteboard.

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Already a customer

Open it in your next class.

In any Space, open the Apps list, choose Google Docs, Sheets or Slides, and paste your file’s link.

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