Build Your Digital Workspace Baseline

You have spent four lessons looking at the pieces. Now build the workspace you will actually use for the rest of the course.

This is not a screenshot scavenger hunt. The test is whether another person can understand the organization and whether you can retrieve the right thing without hunting through a pile of untitled files.

Part 1 — Build the Drive structure

Inside the school-managed Drive location you are allowed to use, create a course folder named according to classroom policy. Inside it, build a structure that serves these jobs:

Digital Literacy
├── Assignments
├── Practice
├── Data
├── Presentations
└── Resources

You may improve the names or structure if you can explain why. The five names above are a functional baseline, not sacred words.

Place one harmless practice file or teacher-supplied sample in the appropriate folder. Give it a name that still makes sense without opening it.

Part 2 — Build the browser path

Create or verify a Digital Literacy bookmark folder. It should contain the course site, school Drive, and at least one course reference you expect to reuse.

Close the course tab and reopen the correct page through your bookmark path. That is the test.

Part 3 — Trace one connected workflow

Draw a five-node connection showing how a future assignment could move through the workspace. Example:

Chrome
  ↓
Drive folder
  ↓
Google Docs file
  ↓
Commenter link
  ↓
Intended class partner

Label the permission at the sharing step. If your diagram skips identity or permission entirely, add the missing boundary.

Part 4 — Run the retrieval check

Give a partner only the name of one course resource you intentionally organized. Do not give them your password or private account access. If collaborative access is not appropriate, perform the test yourself after closing the file.

Measure:

• Did the naming convention identify the file?
• Did the folder path make sense?
• Could the intended account open it?
• Was the permission no broader than needed?

If the test fails, fix the organization and record what changed.

What to submit — Digital Workspace Baseline

Submit one evidence record containing:

1. your folder structure as text, diagram, or privacy-safe screenshot;
2. your bookmark-folder evidence;
3. the five-node Workspace Connection trace;
4. the retrieval test result;
5. one revision you made after testing;
6. one limitation — something this evidence does not prove.

A strong limitation might be: “This test proves my class partner could comment on the sample file at the time of the test. It does not prove every future file in the folder will inherit the same permission.”

Success criteria

Your workspace is ready when organization, access, and retrieval all work without relying on memory alone. The point is not to make Drive beautiful. The point is to create a repeatable digital system you can use for the next seven weeks.