Constructing a Website With Google Sites

Name: Constructing a Website With Google Sites
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Created byJoyce Fiedler

Last updated 7/2018

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What you'll learn

Create a professional looking website about any topic you choose

Course content

3 sections • 12 lectures • 37m total length

Introduction1:46
Learn to access and create websites with Google Sites, choose the new interface, navigate the dashboard, and start a new site with the plus sign.
Getting Started With Google Sites
Sharing Permissions, Preview Mode, & Other Settings3:44
Explore sharing permissions, view vs edit access, and publish controls in Google Sites, plus preview mode, site analytics, duplication, and other essential settings.
Permissions, Preview, & Other Settings

Selecting a Theme or Style For Your Web Site2:33
Learn to name a Google Sites project in Google Drive, edit pages, choose themes, and publish a live site while understanding how colors and fonts affect the design.
Choosing A Theme
Adding Pages To Your Website2:37
Learn to add and organize pages in Google Sites using the pages menu, create a home page, add pages for golden retrievers and a Labrador retriever, and use subpages.
Adding Additional Pages
Building Your Website With the Insert Menu4:21
Learn to use the insert menu in Google Sites to add logos, a site title, and a banner, and to adjust header type and background images.
Insert Menu
Difference Between Upload and Select Image
Continuing to Add Elements To Your Website7:17
Add text, images, and footers in Google Sites, understanding footer behavior across pages and how to edit or remove it. Align, format, link, and drag elements for layout.
Continuing to Add Elements To Your Website
Searching For Images Versus Uploading Images1:14
If you can't find an image by search, upload it locally. Click upload, choose the image from Google Drive or downloads, and insert it into your Google Sites page.
Adding Other Elements to Your Website2:39
Add a divider to separate content—the line's color is theme-determined and only deletable; on other pages, search for images of golden retrievers, swap them, drag text, and right-justify.
Adding Other Elements to Your Website1:48
Insert content from Google Drive into Google Sites to expand pages with documents, slides, images, videos, charts, and PDFs, then preview in editing mode before publishing.
Adding Even More Elements to Your Website4:03
Explore adding more elements to your Google Sites page using Google embeds, YouTube videos, calendars, and maps, and learn how to customize display options, preview changes, and adjust sizes.
Adding Even More Elements to Your Website2:50
Adding Elements With the Insert Menu

Requirements

No previous knowledge is required. You need a Google email to have access to Google Sites.

Description

This course will explain all the steps necessary to create, build, and publish a professional looking website with Google Sites. You can use Sites to create a teacher web page or have your students create their own web pages about topics they are learning about in class. Having a teacher website is a great way to communicate with staff, students, parents, and the community. When students use Google Sites, they are learning 21st century skills and communicating globally all over the world.

Who this course is for:

Anyone who wants to make a website and professional development for teachers to make a website or have their students make a website.

Constructing a Website With Google Sites

What you'll learn

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Course content

Getting Started With Google Sites2 lectures • 6min

Three Main Sections in Google Sites9 lectures • 29min

Publishing Your Website1 lecture • 3min

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