Google Certified Educator Level 1 Technical Training

Store, access, and share files in Google Drive’s cloud, a place you reach from any device. Enable offline mode in Drive settings to work offline and stay organized with assignments.

Learn to search and organize Google Drive with the search box, filters, and file-type options. Rename, move, and delete files, and manage multi-folder placements and trash to stay organized.

Create color coded folders and nested subfolders in Google Drive to organize class files. Share with specific people or via a link, and assign viewer, commenter, or editor permissions.

Upload and organize files to Google Drive, including Word, PowerPoint, PDFs, and photos, then access from any device, unlimited storage, and convert Microsoft Office documents to Google Docs.

Explore Google Docs' smart editing and styling to format text and paragraphs across devices, offline included. Collaborate in real time with sharing, comments, and version history, including dog-themed examples.

Use the explore button in Google Docs to search inside your document, view web pages, images, and Drive items, and add footnotes by selecting citation format and using quotation marks.

Learn how to use Google Docs sharing settings for collaboration, including sharing single or multiple files via the share icon, and selecting view, comment, or edit access, plus link options.

Learn to collaborate in Google Docs by using comments, tagging teammates, and switching to suggestion mode, then review version history and restore previous versions.

Master Google Sheets for education by analyzing data, tracking student progress, and managing grades with formulas, forms integration, and secure sharing across a class.

Sort Google Sheets data by last name (a to z) and by exam one (lowest to highest), then use filters to view subsets, such as students who failed exam one.

Master basic formulas and functions in Google Sheets by starting with the equals sign, using sum and average, selecting cell ranges, and applying results across rows with the fill handle.

Turn data in Google Sheets into charts by selecting the data, inserting a chart, customizing its type, and sharing the chart with a web link.

Discover how Google Slides enhances classroom activities—from lesson plans to student projects—by inserting elements, customizing slides, and sharing links to collaborate with learners.

Insert text boxes, images, and other elements in Google Slides using the Insert menu. Create and resize text boxes, crop images, and explore camera capture to enhance slides.

Explore collaborative groupwork in Google Slides by adding comments, tagging teammates, and assigning tasks; link text boxes to external sites or other slides to create interactive, choose-your-own-adventure presentations.

Explore how Google Forms support quizzes, assessments, surveys, and research; collect responses in spreadsheets, embed multimedia, and copy questions from Google Docs to create choose your own adventure stories.

Create and customize Google Forms in Google Drive, add diverse question types (multiple choice, checkboxes, dropdown, linear scale, grids, date/time, file upload), preview responses, and export data to a spreadsheet.

Learn to insert multimedia into forms by adding pictures to questions or responses, embedding a YouTube video, and using sections with titles and descriptions, then preview.

Explore Google Forms settings and sharing options to control access, collect emails, enable response receipts, restrict to trusted domains, limit to one response, and customize editing, summaries, and confirmations.

Create and customize Google Sites to share information, display student work, collaborate with educators, and control access, using layouts, themes, and pages across devices.

Create a class site in google drive with google sites, add pages via the pages tab and plus sign, and name the site and home page.

Add and arrange elements on your site pages using the insert menu or double-click, then drag, resize, and embed text boxes, images, and Google Docs from Drive.

Learn to control who can view a Google site by adjusting share settings, draft versus published modes, and search engine visibility, then publish and share the link.

Learn to find, share, subscribe, and create playlists of educational YouTube content. Filter by length, playlist, and channel, adjust resolution, and use YouTube EPU for educational videos.

Learn how to find a video on YouTube, use the subscribe button to join a channel, and manage notifications to see new content and view your subscriptions in the guide.

Create and manage YouTube playlists by adding videos via save or add to, and set privacy options for sharing. Videos marked as made for kids cannot be added to playlists.

Explore Google Calendar basics, including creating and editing events, managing multiple calendars, sharing with others, choosing views from month to schedule, and integrating Google Meet for meetings.

Learn how to create a new calendar in Google Calendar, name it, and add a description, then manage visibility by showing or hiding calendars in the left-hand menu.

Learn to create and edit events in Google Calendar via week view, the create button, or side panel, then set times, locations, Hangouts or conferencing, notifications, attachments, and guests.

Explore Google Classroom to organize assignments, boost collaboration, and streamline communication, with centralized class management for distributing and grading work and guardians and co-teacher control.

Explore Google Classroom's layout, including the home page (the stream), classwork, and calendar; manage settings, class codes, students and guardians, and create assignments from Google Drive.

Create assignments in Google Classroom from classwork, attach Google Drive files or links, set due dates and topics, and assign to multiple classes or students with view, edit, or copy permissions.