How to Organize Your Google Drive Classroom Files in Dokkio (Video Tutorial Included)

Find our video tutorial here on Tiktok! But for those who don’t enjoy videos, here is the full tutorial in steps!

1. First, we’re going to upload our local (desktop) files into Google Drive so it can sync with Dokkio (file organizing app, it’s free to use).

2. Select all the files that you want to include (or more, it doesn’t matter – Dokkio can sort it all regardless of how many files there are).

3. Refresh Dokkio’s website page to make sure all your new files are synced in your “all files” category. Here are all the files I just uploaded to Drive – I refreshed the Dokkio page and they’re all here now.

4. Create a Category Tag. If you already have one, you can skip this. But for this tutorial, if I were a teacher, I would create one category for all of my classes. So click where the arrow shows you here.

5. Name your Category – include the plural form of your name (ex: classes instead of class) to better help Dokkio’s AI find every single file you may need in said category. You may add a description to the Category, here Dokkio autofilled it for me. Then, select every single possible file type you may have in this category or just your most used ones; Dokkio will be able to cover you even if you don’t select every single file type you may have in this category anyway. Here, I’ve selected “Images”, “Videos”, “PDFs”, “Spreadsheets”, “Documents”, “Presentations”, and “Other Files”.

6. Now, we’re going to make sure Dokkio can flag the proper files for your “Class” category.

7. You can either find your files by name or browse for them – I searched “class” because all my class files have the word class in them – you can use whatever works for you here. Simply tag a couple files (I tagged two out of the 10 or 12 I had).

8. Now that I’ve tagged a couple files, Dokkio knows what I want – and has suggested 16 files for me to place into my “Class” category.

9. Naturally, since Dokkio has a brilliant AI, it got them all right – so I have selected all and click “Accept 14”. (Do not be like me and forget to click select all on the second page of files Dokkio will have for you.)

10. Now that our “Classes” Category is done, we’re going to create 4 separate tags for each of our 4 classes. Click “New Tag” here to create one.

11. You can create multiple tags at once – just click “add 3 lines” and voila. I’ve filled in my separate tags in their separate lines. When you’re done, click “Add” in the bottom corner (green button).

12. All my tags are nicely loaded. Dokkio tells me it’s automatically tagged some files into each of these categories – let’s go ahead and make sure it got them right.

13. Clicked on my “Class 1” tag – and all my class 1 files are here and none of the other classes! All done! And after the 5 minutes it took me to do this, I literally never have to do this again since Dokkio can now categorize anything further files in my Google Drive automatically into these tags and into my category. Yay!

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