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This would be great to store memos and notes that you use each year. Example: Conference/grade letters we use to inform parents about parent/teacher conference that give students grade and requests if the parent plans on attending conference or do we need to call them. Syllabus could be created and stored here. We are lucky at our school we have a shared drive that we can use to communicate and store shared documents. However you have to be logged on in the district server to pull up any of these documents. So we end up emailing stuff if you want to work on it at home or store on a flash drive to take home. This is a way you could use to be able to retrieve it from anywhere.
You could use this with teachers who teach the same subject with pacing charts.

Students usage would be more challenging because of the email issue. And control over document content. But this would be a good tool students could use to work on any group projects they might have to do. We require 2 page papers each semester in every class and this could help students pull up and print their papers without having to save them on disks or flash drives. Also would help with not being able to open the disk document because it was created on a higher version of word than our school computers. So maybe if they had their own account they could use it that way. ( there is still the issue with emails and opening up their accounts at school. Not sure if that would be an issue for this or not?)

Not sure if you are aware of this but there is a site that students can use to destroy files so students can have extra time to do their assignments. It is called File Destructor 2.0. Here is the link: http://www.xnet.se/fd/ . If students were told to use google.docs then they would not be able to have any excuses as to why they can’t pull up their completed documents.