Using Google Docs in Subject Business Information Systems

The technology of contemporary education as well as high-school curricula in thecomputing technology should be constantly improved so that the education of engineers should follow the fast development of new technologies and in that way enable the students most efficiently for their future work. The reason for using Google Docs in the education is that more attention is devoted to Cloud Computing and that firms nowadays more frequently use similar systems for document management. The advantage of such systems is the possibility of collaboration on various types of documents with constant saving of all versions of documents, which makes possible the recovery of the parts changed by mistake in the older phase of those documents. This type of work is more often used in modern organizations which are dealt with and in the subject Business Information Systems which implies the creation of virtual teams and group work place. Group work place connect the employees working in the same companies or in different companies or outside them, whether they are travelling or work at home and have approach to the public network. By working in the Google Docs the students get used to such a modern organization of work and at the same time they are encouraged to use it in their communication and in the team work during their studies. The paper presents the use of Google Docs in the laboratory practice for the subject Business Information Systems at the University Department of Professional Studies in Split. It describes the possibilities of Google Docs services such as: creation of various types of documents, collaborating with others, add feedback intext or in the by margin of the document using the comments feature, their publication and the recovery of old versions of documents, creation of questionnaires and a survey, and collecting answers to these questionnaires.