Lesson 7 GOOGLE DRIVE

Google Drive
-a cloud-based storage solution that allows you to save files online and access them anywhere.
-you can use drive on your computer or mobile device to securely upload files and edit them online.
-drive also makes it easy for others to edit and collaborate on files.
-google drive gives you the power to upload and save a range of file types.
-drive can serve as a backup solution, or as away to free up space on your device.
-one drive’s best features is its integration with Google’s office suite of could-native apps.

Most Commonly Used Google Drive Applications

Google Drive apps and functions

App Description Primary functions

Google Docs Text documents Proposals, reports, shared
meeting notes
Google Sheets Spreadsheets Project plans, budget sheets
Google Slides Presentations Pitch decks, training modules,
team presentations
Google Forms Surveys Customer satisfaction surveys,
group polls
Google Drawings Shapes, charts, and diagrams Flowcharts, mind maps website
wireframes
Google Sites Websites Team sites, project sites,
resume sites

Some of Google Drive’s other key features:

Storing files
-google gives you 15GB of free storage space across Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos
Sharing files
-you can invite others to view, edit or download files and documents.
Accessing files from any where
-files can be accessed from any smartphone, tablet or computer
-offline access is also available
Comprehensive Search
-it provides an easy way to find the one you need.

Lesson 8 GOOGLE DOCS

Google Docs
-a free web-based application in which documents and spreadsheets can be created, edited and stored
online.
-an online word processor that lets you create and format documents ang work with other people.
-google docs is a part of a comprehensive package of online applications offered by and associated with
google.
Cloud computing
-an idea that, with an always-on internet connection, you can get more done and do things that weren’t
possible before.
-instead of storing files or even programs on your local hard drive, you access them whenever you need
them from the internet.

Perfect syncing
-changes to a documents in google docs are synced to the “cloud” near instantaneously.
-nobody needs to make duplicate copies of the same fille to get it from one place to another.

Those hassles are gone, permanently

-with google docs you can go from editing a sentence on your phone to looking at it on the computer
two seconds later and the updates should be there.

Game-changing collaboration
-presentations, spreadsheets and documents are all easily editable by multiple people at the same time.
-just enter an email address, and you can add people to help edit or limit them to just viewing your
document.

If a person makes an edit you don’t like, there is a history on every document so you can revert to any
version of it.

When two different people open the same document, google docs lets you know where exactly in the
document the other person is ready to type.

Works everywhere
-accessed via the browser, google docs are available on whatever machine you’re using.
-you can even access docs using the advanced mobile browsers found in handhelds such as android or
iPhone.

Embedded documents
-you can even embed the documents right into a web page, which can make for a really effective way to
share information that needs to be updated from time to time.

Free
-like almost everything with google, it’s free.

Lesson 9 GOOGLE SLIDES

Google Slides
-formerly known as google presentations.
-a presentation program included as part of a free, web-based google docs office suites offered by
google.
-an online presentation app that lets you create format presentations and work with other people.
Google Slides features
-the ability to insert images, formatted text, animations, other media.
-the use of variety of templates.
-the ability to edit transitions between slides.

Google slides features

TRANSITIONS VS ANIMATIONS

Transitions
-the are the effects that help you make the transition from one slide to the other.
-the motion between two slides.

Animations
-they are effects that help you express or explain a subject on your current slide.
-refer to object or element animation.
-you can animate the text, any charts or tables, images shapes, icons, etc. on your slides.

Google slide features

-collaborative editing for sharing between computers, devices, and other users.

Lesson 10 GOOGLE SHEETS

-a spreadsheet program included as part of the free, web-based google docs office suite offered by
google within its google drive service.
-google sheets is an online spreadsheet app that lets you create and format spreadsheets and work with
other people.
-google sheets can be used for everything from basic calculations to sophisticated data analysis.

Google sheets features

Editing
-one of the key features of google sheets is that it allows collaborative editing of spreadsheets in real-
time.
-users can see every change made by other collaborators, and all changes are automatically saved to
google servers.

Templates
-there are number of business and personal templates in google sheets that provide just a few examples
of how sheets can be used.

Integration
-google sheets ca be integrated with other google products such as google form, google translate, and
google drawings.
-for example, if you want to create a poll or questionnaire, you can input the questions in google forms,
and then import the google forms into google sheets.
Google sheets terms
Cell
-a single data point or element in a spreadsheet.

Column
-a vertical set of cells.

Row
-a horizontal set of cells.

Range
-a selection of cells extending across a row, column, or both.

Function
- a built-in operation from the spreadsheet app, which can be used to calculate cell, row, column, or
range values, manipulate data, and more.

Worksheet (sheet)
-the named sets of rows and columns making up your spreadsheet; one spreadsheet can have multiple
sheets.

Spreadsheet
-the entire document containing your worksheets.