Google Certified Educator Level 1 Bootcamp

Expand your access to help and learning in unit 2 of the Google certified educator level 1 fundamentals, using the Google Help Center, education forums, and a personal learning network.

Discover how to get answers for Google tools by using a quick Google search, the Google Help Center's step-by-step guides, and the Google for Education forums.

Build your personal learning network by joining Google educator groups and local gigs, connect with educators, ask questions, share resources, and empower professional collaboration.

Explore the Google for Education directory to connect with local experts, including certified trainers, innovators, reference schools, and partners, who provide professional development and classroom tools.

Explore where to find step-by-step guides and learning resources for Google tools, including the help center, Google search, education forums, and Google educator groups to share ideas.

Access Google Drive, create files in Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides. Upload items, organize folders, search, move, and manage sharing and ownership options.

move your files into Drive, understand cloud storage, and learn drag-and-drop uploading, online and offline access, folder organization with color coding, sharing, and viewing and editing common file types.

Explore two ways to create a Google doc—from the Google Docs web page or Google Drive—and master sharing options, editing permissions, and basic tools like inserting links and images.

See how live documents enable real-time collaboration with one version of a document across Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Forms, and Drive, with flexible sharing and access controls.

Create and customize a Google Form for quizzes, including various question types, video embeds, collaboration, sharing options, and linking responses to Google Sheets for data analysis.

Create and deploy quizzes with Google Forms to collect data, review responses, and analyze results in spreadsheets, using forms to embed videos and for surveys and exit tickets.

Learn to run a paperless classroom with Google Drive and Forms, saving PDFs, images, videos, and Office files offline or online, and using forms to collect responses in Sheets.

Use Gmail to communicate with your classroom community, organize and search emails across devices, and support real-time student communication with Hangouts and Groups.

Learn to organize Gmail with a priority inbox, create filters that label messages (e.g., Google education), star important emails, and use search options to quickly locate content.

Organize Gmail with labels for people or topics and color-coding for quick searching; use filters and priority inbox to assign labels and save time.

Learn to use Google Hangouts for real-time student communication with instant messaging, live video chats, and group chats across mobile and web, including archiving, notifications, and history management.

Create a Google group, set its email address and permissions, choose a group type such as email list or Q&A form, invite members, and share information with the whole class.

Learn to use Google Groups to boost class communication with mailing lists, web forums, and collaborative inboxes, reaching large groups, including parents, committees, and students.

Create and customize a Google Sites site for the class, name and theme it, build syllabus and experiment pages, embed videos and images, invite collaborators, and publish.

Create and publish a Google Site to share students’ work with the school community, using pages, embeds, calendars, and Drive documents to showcase learning and collaboration.

Save time communicating with Google Groups for large-scale emails, manage group types and permissions, and use Gmail translation and mobile app for quick outreach to students, parents, and staff.

Learn to share Google calendars with specific people, sharable links, or public access. Create and edit calendars and events, set notifications and appointment slots, and print calendars.

Learn to manage class schedules and appointments with Google Calendar, creating multiple calendars, sharing access, setting personalized reminders, and organizing events for different audiences.

Get more organized by using Google Tasks in Gmail and Google Calendar to create and manage to-do lists with due dates, and use Google Keep for notes and reminders.

Explore Google Calendar features to improve organization: public calendars, email notifications, sharing, collaboration. Switch to the new version and use day, week, month, year views with Google Tasks and Keep.

Use Google Calendar to schedule, invite, and remind attendees, attach a shared agenda in Google Docs, and capture minutes and action items to improve in-person meetings.

Learn to use Google Hangouts for instant messaging, group hangouts, and video calls, including calendar invitations, screen sharing, and bandwidth management.

Use Google Hangouts to hold video meetings anywhere with up to 25 participants, integrate with Gmail and calendar, share screens, and connect students, parents, and guest speakers for education.

Bring meetings online with Google Calendar to find the first available time and book a room, review the agenda in Docs, and use Hangouts to improve the classroom experience.

Organize your class with Google Classroom, using gear settings, class codes, and seamless Gmail and Google Drive integration to manage rosters, assignments, and announcements.

Create and manage assignments in Google Classroom by attaching documents, Google Drive files, videos, and links. Use shared folders and view-only sharing to keep resources organized.

Collect assignments effortlessly using Google Classroom and Drive, allowing students to submit Drive or local files, URLs, or media with a single click.

Discover how to give and receive feedback across Google Classroom, Google Docs, and Google Forms, using comments, suggested edits, and anonymous forms to guide revisions and grading.

Learn to flip your classroom with Google Classroom by sharing videos and readings, enabling anonymous feedback, and offering flexible submission options for student work.

Use Google Sheets and Google Forms to measure student progress, collect attendance, contact information, behavior reports, and student work, protect data by locking cells, and analyze data to track growth.

Master analyzing student growth in Google Sheets by creating charts and using sum, average, and count functions. Protect data, sort by range, use unique values and if, publish.

Learn to analyze student growth with Google Sheets and Forms, using sorting, filtering, and formulas like count, average, sum, unique, and if to identify struggling students and organize data.

Create and share visualizations of student growth with bar, line, and pie charts in Google Sheets. Embed these charts in Google Sites for a private, parent-facing site with view-only permissions.

Learn to collect data with Google Forms feeding sheets, protect data with protected ranges, and visualize progress with line and pie charts using unique to list standards once.

Set Google as your default search engine and enable safe search, then use voice search, precise location, image search tools, and search operators to refine results.

Master smart searching to boost digital literacy by locating reliable information online through choosing the right keywords, evaluating results, and using advanced search, operators, and filters.

Empower students to evaluate online information with goal-oriented digital literacy: verify reliability, check authors and domain extensions, use three sources, cite properly, and respect copyright.

Sign in to Google Chrome, organize pages with bookmark folders and manage bookmarks. Explore the omnibox, incognito mode, and the Chrome Web Store to add extensions for class use.

Discover how to use Chrome to explore web with your class, leveraging the omni box for search, calculations, conversions, bookmarks, and timers, plus extensions, incognito mode, and Chrome Web Store.

Improve digital literacy by using Google search filters and extensions, citing with Creative Commons, syncing Chrome data, evaluating web sources, and applying the rule of three with Google Scholar.

Insert images from computer, web, or drive; add videos; create text boxes, shapes, and lines to build engaging Google Slides presentations.

Explore the Chrome web store to discover extensions, filters for offline use, and tools like screenshot extensions, then evaluate free, Google-driven options compatible with Google Drive.

Augment your lessons with interactive content by using the Chrome Web Store to find free apps and extensions that work offline or integrate with Google Drive, including Play for Schools.

Learn to explore with Google Earth by saving places as bookmarks, switching between 2D and 3D views, using Street View, and using Voyager to discover new destinations.

Explore Google Earth as a web-based 3D globe that brings content to life in the classroom, with 2D/3D views, street view, bookmarking, and Voyager guided tours for interactive geography learning.

Use word art to customize slides and hyperlink objects in a Google site to extend learning. Compare Google Play for Education with the regular store, noting educator benefits.