Shared Drives in G Suite for Education are great for distributing things like staff handbooks, templates for permission slips, and media assets like pictures from school events. This week Google announced a beta program for those G Suite for Edu domains that would like to test a new option for sharing in shared Drives.

The new shared folders in shared Drives beta will let G Suite for Edu domains set folder permissions within shared Drives. This is a change from the current options of setting permissions on a whole Drive level or on a single file level. G Suite for Edu domain managers can apply for the beta program through this form.

Applications for Education
In the announcement of this new shared folders in shared Drives feature Google gave examples of how a business might use the feature to give different departments different access levels for folders. The same could be done in a school setting to create folders for entire departments within the shared Drive.