School devices are locked down, budgets are fixed, and half the people using the system will only ever touch it through a browser. That narrows what actually works.
Storage, previews and every editor run in a browser tab, so a locked-down managed device needs nothing installed.
Share a handout as a Viewer link, or preview-only so it can be read but not downloaded.
Invite staff as named collaborators rather than publishing a link, so access is tied to an account instead of a URL.
Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files preview and edit in the browser, and export back in the same formats.
Links can expire, so material shared for a term does not stay open indefinitely.
Drive and NevTan Mail draw on a single pool, so there is one number to plan around rather than one per system.
An account starts free with 5 GB and nothing in Drive behind a paid tier — the editors, sharing controls and audit log are all included, so a department can run on free accounts and only pay when it needs more room.
Straight answers, including where NevTan Drive is not the right tool.
Every account starts free with 5 GB, and nothing in Drive itself is behind a paid tier — the editors, sharing controls and audit log are all included, so a department can run on free accounts. Only storage is ever paid for, and it is bought through the NevTan suite rather than per app.
No. NevTan Drive runs entirely in the browser, including the PDF, document, spreadsheet and presentation editors, so managed devices with no install rights are fine.
The strongest control is not to publish a link at all: invite staff as named collaborators, which ties access to a NevTan account rather than to whoever holds a URL. Where you do publish a link, give it a password and an expiry date.
Yes, through a share link. Named collaborator roles — Viewer, Commenter, Editor — require an account; an ordinary share link does not.
Create a NevTan account, upload one folder, and share it the way you actually would.
