# How To Invite People to Colaborate In a Team Drive With Google Groups

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**Administrative Levels in a Team (Shared) Drive**

The following types of members exist in a Team Drive.

Types of members and their Functions  
**Manager:**  
Functions: By default, can manage members, and upload, edit, move or delete all files.

**Content manager:**  
Functions: By default, new members will be Content managers. A content manager can upload, edit, move, or delete all files.

**Contributor:**  
Functions: by default, can edit all files and upload new files, but can’t move or delete files.

**Commenter:**  
Functions: Can only comment on all files.

**Viewer:**  
Function: Can only view all files.

**How to Create and Add members to a Team (Shared) Drive**

**Create a Team Drive on Computer**  
Go to Your Drive on your PC  
Click Shared drives, on the left side of the screen.  
At the top left, click New.  
Enter any desired name for the shared drive.  
Click on Create.

**Create a Team Drive on Android**  
Open the Google Drive app on your android device.  
In the top left, tap Menu Menu and then Shared drives.  
Click on Add Add to create a new Team drive  
Enter any desired name for your newly created Team Drive.  
Tap on OK.

**Add Members to Team Drive on Computer**  
Go to Your Drive on your PC.  
On the left side, click on Shared drives and double-click one of your shared drives.  
At the top, click + Add members.  
Add names, email addresses, or a Google Group. Note that, by default, new members will be Content managers. They can upload, edit, move, or delete all files.  
Modify the following options/privileges for members:  
Access for new members, click the Down arrow Down Arrow and choose an option.  
Whether new members get notified, click Skip sending notification.  
Click to Send.

**Add Members to a Team Drive on Android**  
Open the Google Drive app on your Android device,  
In the top left, tap Menu Menu and then Shared drives.  
Next to the shared drive, you want to add to, tap More More and then Add members.  
Add names, email addresses, or a Google Group (preferable). By default, members can upload, edit, and delete files.  
Modify the following options/privileges for members:  
Access for new members, tap More More and then Set access for new members.  
Whether new members get notified, tap More More and then Skip sending notifications.  
Tap on the Send Send button

**How to Join a Team Drive via Group Invitation Link**  
Click on the invitation link for the Team drive of interest. Select the Google account you want to use in joining the group (if you have several Google accounts). Click on Join Group. Wait for some time, depending on the group policy. Check under your shared Drives to see the new Team drive you just joined listed. In some cases, the Team Drives may be listed under the Hidden Drives in your Shared Drive folder.

Source: [EduTechTainMent](https://edutechtainment.com/data-repositories/google-team-drives/google-cloud-storage-part-5-what-are-team-drives/)

For more info on Team Drives, please read this post by @beast :

> [@Google Teamdrives (Introductions, Features and Limitations)! A complete guide!](https://onehack.st/t/google-teamdrives-introductions-features-and-limitations-a-complete-guide/71261):
>
> This whole post will be a guide for About Team Drive Even If you know (or You think that you know everything )about TD, I insist you reading this post. I am 100% sure that you will find at-least find 1-2 new things, tricks, info… \*\*Things included in this post \*\* [Features] [How to use a TD] [Limitations] [How to copy shared folders/ files in TD] [How to share links of files present in TD] Features of TD (in short and only required ones) It’s a GDRIVE for whole team. Storage space is un…

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