Google Workspace Essentials

Explore Gmail within Google Workspace Essentials, learning to compose and send emails, attach files via Google Drive, apply labels, star important messages, search, and manage trash, storage, and add-ons.

Access Google Contacts via the app launcher or URL, create and save new contacts, and organize them with labels like Bigger Brains and Family while integrating with Gmail.

Navigate to calendar.google.com to view day, week, or month layouts and color-code events. Create events, invite guests, and share calendars across Android, iPhone, Outlook, and Holidays in the United States.

Access Google Drive to store, upload, and share files, create folders, switch between list and grid views, and decide when to convert Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files to Google formats.

Explore how to navigate Google Drive, access shared folders, move items to My Drive, add files, star favorites, manage trash, and share documents with configurable permissions.

Create and format documents in Google Docs within Google Drive, share with others, enable offline access, and collaborate with comments, version history, and tagging to assign tasks.

Explore Google Sheets as a spreadsheet tool, compare it to Excel, use sum and other functions, create charts, format cells, and save or export as Excel.

Discover Google Slides, a powerpoint-like presentation tool, to create, insert images and media, apply themes, share with others, and publish rolling slides to the web.

Create and share Google Forms to design surveys with diverse question types and clear descriptions. Preview forms, collect responses, and store results automatically in a spreadsheet.

Access Google Photos from photos.google.com or the app, upload from any device, sync photos and videos, create albums, and enjoy free unlimited storage plus Google Lens search.

Learn to build a Google Sites page from scratch, add text, images from Drive, embed documents, and include YouTube or Drive videos, then publish with shared access settings.

Discover jamboard as an electronic whiteboard for meetings, featuring multi-page canvases, pens, sticky notes, images, and laser pointers, with background options, sharing, and export to pdf or image.

Explore google hangouts' three modes—message, voice call, and video meeting (meet)—with live demos of inviting participants, presenting your screen, and scheduling meetings via calendar.

Learn to use Google Keep for notes, labels, search, reminders, and archiving, then create lists, add images or links, and draw or record audio on the computer and phone.

Learn to create and edit drawings in Google Drawings at drawings.google.com, name and save to Drive, insert pictures, text boxes, shapes, tables, and export as pdf, jpeg, png, or svg.

Explore Google Translate on desktop and mobile with language detection. Translate text and speech, use conversation mode, translate documents, save phrases, share results, and download languages for offline use.

Install Google File Stream from Drive for Desktop to access Google Drive files in File Explorer, and mark folders offline with green checks to work offline.

Understand how shared drives are company-owned, require a business or enterprise account, and let you add members with different access levels; create folders and drives, and manage members.

Manage users, add new members, reset passwords with temporary credentials, delete users, and control which apps your company can use with Admin roles in the Google Admin console at admin.google.com.