Google Drive Outage Sends Students Into Panic

Google Docs experienced a service disruption yesterday. I use Docs as my primary word processing program; it just makes collaborating easier than having to send emails back and forth. Still, the first thing I did when I realized Docs wasn’t working was to open a MS Word document.

Problem solved.

Unfortunately, some people hadn’t had the same foresight. A few dozen tweets from students revealed that they were making the age-old mistake of saving their work in one place, with no backup.