Google Docs: Using the Activity Dashboard (2024)

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Google Docs: Using the Activity Dashboard? ›

Viewing who has seen your Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides and when they have viewed them is easy with the Activity Dashboard feature. This feature also shows the trend of views and comments, as well as a sharing history.

Viewing who has seen your Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides and when they have viewed them is easy with the Activity Dashboard feature. This feature also shows the trend of views and comments, as well as a sharing history.

The Activity dashboard isn't available to everyone. To use it, your Google account must be part of an organization, like a business or school. You also need permission to edit the document, and you must use the web browser version of Google Docs. For more info, go to our Sharing and Collaborating lesson.

On your computer, open Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides. Settings. Under "Activity dashboard," turn off Show your view history.

As an administrator, you can control whether users see each other's file activity on an Activity dashboard. File activity includes the names of users who have viewed Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides files and the time they viewed them.

Dashboards are a collection of widgets that give you an overview of the reports and metrics you care about most. Dashboards let you monitor many metrics at once, so you can quickly check the health of your accounts or see correlations between different reports. Dashboards are easy to create, customize and share.

If your searches, websites you've visited, or other activity don't show in My Activity, make sure that: You're signed in. Activity is saved only when you're signed in to your Google Account. Your device is online.

Can Google Doc viewers see edit history? Users with Edit access to a file can view its full history including changes made by colleagues via the revision history feature. They can also revert to earlier versions of the file and see which person made specific edits.

Manage your Google Account.

Tap Data & privacy. Under "History settings," tap Web & App Activity. Turn Web & App Activity on or off.

Under "History settings," click an activity or history setting you don't want to save. Under the setting you don't want to save, select Turn off. Follow the steps to turn off the setting, or choose to Turn off or Turn off and delete activity.

How do you know if someone viewed your Google Drive? ›

Simply open the Google Sheet and select “Tools” from the top menu, then choose “Activity Dashboard”. From there, select “Viewers” on the left-hand menu to see a list of everyone who has viewed the sheet, along with the date and time of their last access. Can you hide who is on a Google Doc?

This activity helps make your experience on Google faster and more useful. The kinds of activity that show up in My Activity can include associated data like location, and can depend on which Google products you use, and which Activity controls are turned on.

See Who Viewed a Google Doc

Select the Activity dashboard icon (jagged arrow) on the top right or Tools > Activity dashboard from the menu. Confirm that Viewers is selected on the left side. Use the All viewers tab on the right to see who has viewed the document. You'll see their name and when they last viewed it.

The Google Drive Activity API consists of the DriveActivity resource, which represents changes made to objects within a user's Google Drive, and the activity. query method, which allows you to retrieve information about those changes.

Your Activity controls let you decide whether or not to save these types of activity: Web & App Activity saves your searches and other activity on Google services to make searches faster and give you customized experiences in Search, Maps, and other Google products.