The writing process has never had a better friend than Google Drive.

My Take

User-friendly and available everywhere you go, Google Drive is the must-have app and site for teachers and students. It allows you to share documents with your class, view the progress of a project or writing assignment, collect formative assessments, gather data, and communicate out to your students, all in one (very robust) package. For advanced teacher users, check out Scripts for Drive to make your life so much better: Doctopus (for distributing and collecting documents), Flubaroo (for grading forms), and Gubric (for attaching a rubric to your documents). Also, consider using Voice Comments (an app that adds-on to your Drive) to add voice memos to your students' work.