Google Workspace Essentials
What you'll learn
- Describe the purpose of Google Workspace and identify features that are common across Google apps
- Access Gmail, Google Contacts, and Google Calendar to manage email and contacts and create events
- Access your Google Drive to upload and share documents, and create new Google files from Drive
- Create 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
- Store your photos in Google Photos, automatically sync photos and videos from your phone, and use powerful companion apps like PhotoScan and Google Lens
- Access less common apps like Google Jamboard, Google Keep, Google Drawings, and Google Translate
- Connect with friends and contacts via chat, video, or phone using Google Hangouts and Google Meet
- Use file management systems like Google Drive File Stream and Shared Drives
Requirements
- A Google Workspace account, typically provided by your organization
Description
Learn about all the powerful apps in Google’s collection of cloud computing, productivity, and collaboration tools
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 apps and a few more you may not be aware of! Did you know you can create your own public website in minutes using Google Sites? Have you thought about using Google Translate on your phone 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 will learn by taking this course.
Other apps covered include Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Drive, Google Forms, Google Meet, and more. Learn what’s possible and how to get the most out of your Google Workspace account.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who uses or plans to use Google Workspace with an organization
Course content
- Preview01:34
- 04:14What is G Suite?
Instructor
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Bigger Brains Founder and President Chip Reaves is a serial entrepreneur who has started five successful companies. An Atlanta native, Chip began fixing computers for small businesses in the 1980's while studying Computer Science at Georgia Tech. After 10 years building a successful IT Service Practice in Atlanta, Chip founded the Computer Troubleshooters franchise system alongside Wilson & Suzanne McOrist, which became the world's largest computer service franchise and received multiple awards from Entrepreneur Magazine, Franchise Business Review, and AllBusiness.
Chip has been interviewed on TV and other major media on topics related to small business technology and entrepreneurship, including ABC News, BusinessWeek TV, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times, and is a member of Jim Blasingame's "Brain Trust" on SmallBusinessAdvocate. In 2010 Chip was listed among the Top 150 most influential people in small business IT by SMB PC magazine.
Chip lives with his wife Maren and step-daughter Meg in Anderson, South Carolina where they also co-own a Computer Troubleshooters franchise location. In his spare time Chip is very active with his church and local charities, and consults with two aid organizations serving Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa.