LTI - Google Drive Cloud Assignment
- Jaehyeon Park
- Jordan Galczynski
Google Drive Cloud Assignment is a third party, LTI tool that facilitates Google drive integration with an assignment within the learning management system (Bruin Learn).
When to use it
When instructors want to embed a google drive document, spreadsheet, or slide directly into an assignment. However, this can be used only for an individual assignment, not for a group assignment.
Please Note: To use Google Cloud Assignments within Bruin Learn, you will need to have a Google Drive account linked to your Bruin Learn account. We recommend linking your UCLA Google Drive account.
We also recommend keeping all activities and assignments you create within your UCLA Google Drive account in a separate folder. An example folder would be “Bruin Learn Teaching Materials”, this will keep your assignments for use within the LMS separate from your personal work.
To create a Google Drive Cloud Assignment in Bruin Learn first go to Assignments and then create a new assignment.
Next, change the Submission Type to “External Tool”
Click on “Find” and the scroll down until you see Google Cloud Assignment. Click on this option.
Within the different files and folders in your linked Google Drive account, select the appropriate one for this Assignments. You can either look through folders and files individually or search for a specific item by name.
Once you have located the correct item (doc, sheet, powerpoint, drawing file, etc.) click on it and then click on “Submit”.
This will create the external tool link to the chosen file.
From here, you should continue specify other parameter settings for your Assignment. These settings are the same for any type of assignment and include: number of attempts, due date, and group restrictions. One option that is not open to Google Drive Cloud Assignments however is allowing students to complete the assignment in groups. This is because each student will need to link to an individual Google Drive account to complete this assignment.
Note: Instructors and students can only link one google drive account (either @g.ucla.edu or personal Gmail account) to their Bruin Learn account. If they want to unlink an existing google drive account (to shift to another Gmail account), they should go to “Data & Privacy” within Google Account settings (https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-privacy) and remove the allowed third-party access. Click “Third-party apps with account access” within Data from apps and services you use and remove access to Google Drive LTI by Canvas from both Third-party apps with account access and Signing in with Google.
*Poor UX design: students are given minimal feedback when submitting an assignment. This may even lead to students thinking that “nothing” happened after clicking submit and feeling that their assignment cannot be submitted. Also, instructors could know how many submissions have been made to be graded only if they go to SpeedGrader, unlike assignments of other types.