Transferring ownership of Bethel Drive Docs

Summary

Shared documents have owners who control access and the ability to edit of those documents. If you no longer will be controlling a document then that ownership should be transfered to someone else so they can make changes to the access or even continued existence of the file.

Transferring Ownership of Bethel Google Documents to another Bethel Account

1. Login to your Bethel email at mail.bethel.edu with your Bethel username and password.
2. Click on the Drive tab at the top of the page.
3. Check the box or boxes next to the file(s) you would like to share.
4. Click the More menu and select Share.
5. Open the document you would like to transfer your ownership from.
6. If the new owner already has access, skip to Step 7. If they do not, follow these steps:
   
   1. Click the white space below 'Add people.'
   2. Type the email address of the new owner.
   3. Click Share & Save.
7. Click the drop-down menu to the right of the new owner's name. Choose Is owner.
8. Click Share & Save. You will now have access to the document as an editor.

Transferring Ownership of Bethel Google Documents to a non Bethel Account

If you are a student/alumni who would like to transfer all Drive content to a personal gmail account, please follow these instructions.