Student: How do I submit a link to my Google Doc?

You will learn how to submit a link to your Google Doc granting Editor permissions to anyone who has the link. For an Assignment in Canvas, the professor has requested that students only submit a Google Doc via web link.

Follow these steps to learn how to create a web link that will grant Editor permissions. You are not sharing this Google Doc with a particular person but sharing the link.

1. Within your Google Doc, click on the Share button.

Follow these steps after you are finished writing your paper in Google Docs.

Share button in Google doc.

2. Click on Restricted.

Restricted selected

3. Select Anyone with the link.

Cal State Fullerton selected

4. Click on Viewer.

Viewer link selected

5. Select Editor.

Editor link selected
Copy link button selected
Assignment link selected

8. Click on Start Assignment.

Start Assignment button selected

9. Paste the URL from your Google Doc in the Website URL field.

Website URL field - pasted url from google doc

10. Click on Submit Assignment.

Submit Assignment button selected
Submission Details link selected

Article Summary

You have now learned how to submit a link to your Google Doc granting Editor rights to your professor.