Personal Collections vs Groups

Personal Collection

DocuShare offers you a place to store and manage your own files, electronic documents and other objects that you want and need to organize but may be of no interest to anyone else. This area is referred to as your Personal Collection. Feel free to customize this area in whatever way helps you to do your job. Create collections (folders) to organize your objects as you wish. You are in complete control of this area, and by default you are the only one who can see the files that are kept in your Personal Collection (besides the DocuShare system administrator.)

For those of you who are wondering – Yes, you can selectively share an item in your Personal Collection with another person, a group of people, or with the entire Internet. This is done by modifying the Permissions of the Document. DocuShare is set up to make all of your Personal Collection files private by default.

Groups

DocuShare also hosts communal areas in which groups of people can share documents and collaborate on objects like discussion areas, calendars, view weblogs or create wikis. One or more DocuShare users who share the same area is called a Group. By default you are a member of your building or department Group, and a shared area has been created for you.

Every school and department has their own shared areas to work within, and we recommend that you do as much of your work as possible in these areas, instead of your personal collections.

Updated June 19, 2017