Keep your important college files safe.

College life requires students to have a lot of important documents on their computers all the time. From essays that they spend a lot of time and effort on, to big projects that take many months to complete. students usually keep this files on their computer trusting they will be safe. Hopefully that will be true. But, in DormNet, we find out that often, these files are lost before they are submitted. From laptops that fell into the water to viruses that corrupt the Operating System making it impossible to recover files. Harding has a great firewall but unfortunately, some viruses and physical damage can happen to computers without a warning. This is the reason why you need to protect your files.

Every student at Harding owns a student account in this format "example@harding.edu" this account is linked with pipeline, canvas and google drive. Google Drive is a cloud base storage FREE and UNLIMITED to every student that has a college e-mail. Thanks to google drive and Harding University students can automatically save all their files. Let us go through the steps.

Go to your Harding e-mail then select the app called Drive.

Then, Click on the gear icon, and select "Download Drive".

After that, Click on "Download for PC".

Agree and download it.

After you have download it, Install.

Then Click on get started.

Enter you Harding account credentials.

After that, click "Next" in all the messages. Read them first.

Then Click on "Done".

After doing all this you should have a folder in your desktop called "Google Drive".

And there you have it, any file you put in that folder will automatically be saved in the cloud. You will be able to access it from anywhere that you have an internet connection. No matter if you computer suffers from damage, you still have a place where your files and projects will be protected forever. Next time you need them go your your Harding account and select the Drive app or just open that folder in your computer.