Accessing Your Student Google Drive – Mountain Brook Schools
Using Google Drive allows you to create files similar to those in Microsoft Office, save them in cloud, access them
anywhere you have internet and share the files with people of your choosing. This works better at school if you have
logged into the computer with your regular network username and password.
Use Google Chrome for the easiest login. Search any browser (Firefox, Safari, Explorer, etc…) for “Google Drive Log-in”
to get this page. (The first is a screenshot of the login on Google Chrome and the second is a screenshot of the login on
Firefox.)
Use your student email address which is your username and the end of the email address all students use in MBS:
If your name is Bob E. Smith and you are a 4th grader, your email should be
2023bes1@student.mtnbrook.k12.al.us
Use your regular network login password.
If you are having difficulty, it could be that someone else has used that computer to sign in to their google drive, so click,
“Add user” to enter your email and network password.
The first time you login you may be asked to read and type some security letters like this:
Once your login is established, you will see something like this:
Click on the Google Drive colored triangle. When you first click onto your Google Drive, you will see a welcome page.
Click “Meet Drive” to learn about the way the cloud storage for your files works. A smaller window will pop up that
points out features of Google Drive to you. Always click “Next,” so you can read how to use the different features.
Each time you click “Next” the window will show you how to use another feature:
To start a new document like typing a paper ( Google Docs - similar to MS Word)
or making a slide show (Google Slides - similar to Power Point),
click the red “New” button in the top left corner:
Your files are worked on in the cloud and saved automatically in the cloud. Access your files anywhere you use internet.