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Google Workspace Essentials (2020)

Do your best work using Google Workspace

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BeginnerUpdated Jan 2, 2025
Google Workspace Essentials (2020)

What You'll Learn

check_circleDescribe the purpose of Google Workspace and identify features that are common across Google apps
check_circleAccess Gmail, Google Contacts,and Google Calendar to manage email and contacts and create events
check_circleAccess your Google Drive to upload and share documents, and create new Google files from Drive
check_circleCreate Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Forms, and Google Sites and use basic features like formatting, commenting, version history, sharing, working offline, and publishing to the web
check_circleStore your photos in Google Photos, automatically sync photos and videos from your phone, and use powerful companion apps like PhotoScan and Google Lens
check_circleAccessless common apps like Google Jamboard, Google Keep, Google Drawings, and Google Translate
check_circleConnect with friends and contacts via chat, video, or phone using Google Hangouts and Google Meet
check_circleUse file management systems like Google Drive File Stream and Shared Drives

About This Course

Learn all the powerful apps available in Google’s collection of tools for cloud computing, productivity, and collaboration.

Whether you know it as Google Workspace, G-Suite or Google Apps, Google’s suite of apps for business is powerful, accessible, and integrated. In this course, Google expert Laurie Sherrod provides an overview of the most common Google apps as well as a few new ones.

Did you know you can create your own website in minutes using Google Sites? Have you thought about using Google Translate to have a conversation with someone who speaks another language? Did you know you can work offline with files stored in your Google Drive? These are just a few of the skills you’ll pick up by taking this course.

Apps covered include:

  • Gmail
  • Google Contacts
  • Google Calendar
  • Google Drive
  • Google Docs
  • Google Sheets
  • Google Slides
  • Google Forms
  • Google Photos
  • Google Sites
  • Google Jamboard
  • Google Hangouts and Meet
  • Google Keep
  • Google Drawings
  • Google Translate
  • Google Drive File Stream
  • Google Shared Drive
  • Google Admin

By the end of this course, you will be able to utilize various apps available in Google Workspace, so you can spend less time managing your work and more time actually doing it.

Enjoy more than an hour of high-quality HD content in the “Uniquely Engaging”TM Bigger Brains Teacher-Learner style!

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