Google Certified Educator Level 2 Technical Training

Explore Google's specialized search tools and strategies to help teachers and students quickly find the best answers. Filter by language, date, and file type, and combine parameters to narrow results.

Learn to refine searches with file type filters, hashtags, exclusions using minus, exact phrases in quotes, and OR in all caps to combine terms.

Explore how to use Google search tools to refine web and image results, apply time and usage rights filters, and access definitions, pronunciation, and image attributes like size and color.

Search Google Books, filter results with tools, and download a PDAF version of a chosen book. Open the file and upload it to Google Drive to save it for later.

Discover Google's hidden Easter eggs across apps and the web, including blink, do a barrel roll, and askew. Learn how to locate these features and adjust language settings.

Explore Gmail's advanced features to save time and boost efficiency, learn how to enable them, create email templates for repeated messages, and set filters to automatically organize your inbox.

Explore general settings to customize your inbox, including page size, undo send timing, default reply behavior, signatures, vacation responder, themes, labels, filters, add-ons, and keyboard shortcuts.

Save time on repetitive emails by creating and using Gmail templates, enabling the templates feature, and quickly inserting saved messages for weekly newsletters and parent updates.

Create filters in your G.M. account to automatically apply labels, archive, delete, store, or forward emails, and skip inbox, using search terms and labels like Google Forms assignment level one.

Learn to schedule emails for later, using a chosen date and time or default options, with time zone awareness, then draft, view the scheduled inbox, and edit or cancel.

Explore Google Drive as a cloud storage service for education accounts, enabling unlimited file storage and easy sharing with collaborators. Learn how to organize files and use advanced sharing settings.

Organize Google Drive by using folders and the Drive file menu to share, get link, move, rename, change color, download, and use a shortcut to add files to multiple folders.

Learn how to use Google Drive's sharing settings to grant specific people access, assign viewer or editor roles, and control temporary access and link permissions for secure collaboration.

Explore shared drives, formerly team drives, where the organization owns files and a group retains access even if members leave, keeping department information organized and shareable.

Explore google docs beyond word processing, using tables, hyperlinks, and up to 50 collaborators to design engaging, consistently formatted lessons, including hyper doc and multimedia text sets, plus version history.

Insert and customize tables in a document by selecting cells, adding rows and columns, merging cells, and adjusting borders, colors, alignment, and padding.

Explore how hyperdocs (multimedia text sets) transform Google Docs into interactive, inquiry-based lessons that guide student self-direction through graphic organizers, links, and collaboration.

Explore version history in Google Docs to view changes, name and save new versions, compare edits by time and user, and restore or copy a previous version.

Create a dynamic table of contents in Google Docs by labeling appendices with heading three, inserting the table, choosing page numbers or blue links, and refreshing when wording changes.

Discover how Google Slides enables interactive learning, personalized pacing, and collaboration by linking to Forms and Docs, turning students from consumers to creators and publishing slides to the web.

Link objects and text in Google slides to create an interactive choose your own adventure. Plan in a Google doc, set lunch options, and link each choice to follow-up slides.

Embed and edit videos on slides from YouTube, adjust start/end times, auto play or mute, customize size, rotation, and shadow, and add audio with sharing requirements.

Publish your slides to the web to share a link or embed on your site, with auto-advance, size options, and optional sign-in access.

Link slides to a Google doc to control how they appear and update automatically, choosing between linked or unlinked paste, then customize slide size and add note areas for students.

Learn to analyze student data in Sheets by creating pivot tables, applying filters, color coding, and using functions to interpret results with additional data tools.

Use the filter function in Google Sheets to isolate teachers by planning period, and apply conditional formatting to color-code results with rules and color scales.

Create and manipulate pivot tables to analyze large datasets by arranging rows, columns, values, and filters to compute sums, averages, and the weighted average across property types and divisions.

Explore Google Sheets builtin data tools to organize your data efficiently by splitting text to columns, protecting ranges, and removing duplicates.

Use Vlookup in Google Sheets to match emails to teachers at a school with exact matches. Then use the easy query add-on to generate period-based attendance sheets by filtering data.

Explore how Google Calendar streamlines parent–teacher scheduling with appointment slots, invites, and optional Google Meet. Learn to customize individual and shared calendars and set up virtual meetings from slots.

Learn to customize Google Calendar views, notifications, and per-calendar settings, including custom views, working hours, and alternate calendars, using the gear menu.

Create appointment slots on your calendar to let others book 30-minute or 20-minute meetings within a defined time block, with repeats and Google Meet links.

Enable daily agenda emails in calendar settings to receive a daily email showing your day's schedule, including class periods and meetings.

Learn to build interactive forms with choose-your-own-adventure paths and auto-graded quizzes, manage response destinations, clear old responses, and use branching to go to a question based on an answer.

Learn how to manage form responses by storing them in a new or existing spreadsheet, unlinking and deleting responses, and selecting the destination for ongoing submissions.

Learn to build a branching Google Forms quiz using go to section based on answer, planning questions, creating sections, and directing students to completion or additional support.

Turn a Google Form into a quiz, set correct answers and point values, enable quizzes, use Chromebook lock mode, release grades, and share the link with students.

Explore how to apply response validation in Google forms, using short answer, paragraph, and checkboxes to enforce formats and lengths with custom error messages.

Explore how Google sites can package workshops and professional development content with links, videos, Google tools. Organize content with pages and subpages, customize visuals, and embed resources for curriculum topics.

Use themes to customize Google sites by changing header images, colors, fonts, and layout options; apply main colors, font styles, background options, and text formatting across pages.

Create and organize a site by nesting sub pages, adding and dragging pages under a parent, hiding from navigation, and using duplication to manage navigation and structure.

Learn to embed maps, YouTube videos, calendars, and other media into your site using insert options, manage sharing settings, and use placeholders to create consistent templates across pages.

Add gadgets to a Google site using embed codes and insert a hit counter. Customize navigation placement, choose a nav color, and upload a logo and fab icon before publishing.