Sharing is Caring: Changing Ownership of Google Docs

At the end of the school year, sometimes you're lucky: you find out you get to do exactly what you have been doing, in exactly the same room you've done it, with the same exact schedule planned for the next year.  But really, that doesn't happen often.  Whether by mandate or choice, usually there are lots of changes.

If you are leaving your district, changing grades, or changing subjects, there are 2 ways to make sure that someone "left behind" can keep using the Google docs, slides, forms, etc. you shared with them.

1. Tell a person you shared your Google doc with, and tell them to make a copy: that person opens the doc, chooses "file" and then chooses "make a copy."  Now that person is the owner of a brand new doc, and she/he can share it out with whomever.  There is no editing history, and no one else that the doc is shared with.
2.  Tell a person you shared your Google doc with that you are going to make her/him the owner of the doc: click on the "share" button or icon, click "Advanced" and then toggle the editing rights to "is owner" then click "done."  You will get a message box, and if you're sure, you click "yes."  The editing history remains intact, as well as the list of people it was previously shared with.

Either way you choose, you are leaving with a positive memory for the people you've been working with, and that's a good thing because...sharing is caring!