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The results are in - how students like you use Google Docs
July 30, 2009
Stephanie is interning with the Google Docs Marketing team this summer and surveyed students to find out about how you're using Docs on and off campus.
Last month
I asked you
how you use Google Docs on campus. After hearing from over 50 students, I wanted to share some highlights of what we learned from you along the way:
How do students mainly use Google Docs?
Brainstorming
Whether it's taking notes during a group project brainstorm session or outlining a research paper, Google Docs helps you get your thoughts down quickly and allows you to access them from anywhere later.
Group work
Many of you use Google Docs to contribute your part to a group project, but just as many use it outside the classroom. Student groups are collecting RSVPs with Google forms, taking meeting minutes with Google documents, and balancing budgets with Google spreadsheets.
Personal record keeping
Have a to-do list or want to keep a weekly budget? Many of you are using Google Docs to stay on track with daily tasks.
Your favorite thing about Google Docs?
Collaboration
Backing up important work is great too, but far and away students enjoy being able to contribute to the same document with friends and classmates. And it's not just about the class projects. For instance, Students for Obama used Google spreadsheets to tell each other who had participated in phone banks, who was going on certain trips, and who would complete certain tasks.
Most creative uses we heard from you:
"Two of my friends used Google spreadsheets to play Dungeons and Dragons with each other."
- Chris, Worchester Polytechnic Institute, Computer Science
"We used Google Docs to plan a spring break trip for Habitat for Humanity. It helped us keep track of phone numbers, dinner menus, etc."
- Jacinda, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
"Our club leadership used Google Docs for everything from constitution-writing to picking the new board, and during interviews, we would take notes on interviewees in the same doc."
- Justin, Harvard University, Anthropology
Thanks to everyone who volunteered your time; it really helps the Google Docs team key in to what's important to students so we can continue to make the product better for you. With back to school right around the corner, I'm interested to try out some of your ideas in my own campus life, and I hope some of these ideas may inspire you to
get started with Docs
as well.
Posted by Stephanie Vezich, Google Marketing Intern
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