3.1 Strengths and Weaknesses

Platform Strengths Weaknesses
Google Drive - Real-time collaboration
- Always accessible
- Easy to share by adding email address or sending links
- Unlimited storage with edu email address
- Functionality limited by internet connection
Google Docs/Slides/Sheets - Real-time collaboration
- Automatically save the work
- Always accessible
- Easy to share by adding email address or sending links
- Easy to set user permission levels to designate who can view, comment, or edit the document
- Unlimited revision history to see what others have changed
- Functionality limited by internet connection
- Lack of advanced features
- A loss in formatting/features when importing
Dropbox - Automatic file backup
- Advanced software integration
- Offline working capabilities
- Commonly used by IT geeks for sharing data
- Free to use with edu email address
- Lack of elite-level security
- Lack of advanced features
- Limited search function