Google Workspace Essentials (G-Suite)

Learn about all of the powerful apps in Google’s collection of cloud computing, productivity, and collaboration tools

Instructor : Laurie Sherrod

Target Audience: Anyone who uses or plans to use Google Workspace (formerly G-Suite and Google Apps) with an organization.

Prerequisites: A Google Workspace account, typically provided by your organization

Course Goal: By the end of this course, you will be able to discuss the various apps available in Google Workspace and use common features to create Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides and integrate with other Google apps.

Objectives:

  • 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

Learn about all the powerful apps in Google’s collection of cloud computing, productivity, and collaboration tools.

Whether you know it as Google Workspace, G-Suite or Google Apps, 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.

You’ll learn about common features like those listed here:

  • Search
  • Labels
  • Sharing
  • Collaborating
  • Version History
  • Working Offline

Apps covered include:

  • Gmail
  • Google Contacts
  • Google Calendar
  • Google Drive
  • Google Docs
  • Google Sheets
  • Google Slides
  • Google Forms
  • Google Photos
  • Google Sites
  • Google
  • Google Hangouts and Meet
  • Google Keep
  • Google Drawings
  • Google Translate
  • Google Drive File Stream
  • Google Shared Drive
  • Google Admin

By the end of this course, you will be able to discuss the various apps available in Google Workspace and how they all work together so you can spend less time managing your work and more time actually doing it.

Learn what’s possible and how to get the most out of your Google Workspace account.

Course Length

Lessons : 21
Seat Time : 1 hour 38 minutes

Getting Started
1 Introduction 1:34
2 What is Google Workspace? 4:14

Google Workspace Apps, Part 1
3 Gmail 7:34
4 Google Contacts 1:51
5 Google Calendar 2:38
6 Google Drive, Part 1 7:40
7Google Drive, Part 2 6:01
8 Google Docs 5:17
9 Google Sheets3:49
10 Google Slides 4:47

Google Workspace Apps, Part 2
11 Google Forms 6:23
12 Google Photos 7:22
13 Google Sites 8:08
14 Google Jamboard 4:23
15 Google Hangouts and Meet 4:26
16 Google Keep 5:09
17 Google Drawings 2:45
18 Google Translate 3:48

Sharing and Admin
19 Google Drive File Stream 3:18
20 Google Shared Drive 4:34
21 Google Admin 2:13

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