Course introduction

1. Course introduction

Hello, and welcome. In this course, you'll be introduced to Google Calendar, Google's scheduling service that's part of Google workspace. During this course, through a series of lectures, demonstrations and hands on activities, we hope that you'll become more confident using Google Calendar. With Google Calendar, you can quickly schedule meetings and events and get reminders about upcoming activities, so you always know what's next. Google Calendar is designed for teams, so it's easy to share your schedule with others and create multiple calendars that you and your team can use together. We encourage you to be signed into Google Workspace throughout the course, not just for the activities. You can pause the video lecture or demonstration at any time and explore and practice for yourself to ensure that you understand the topic being discussed. This course follows our fictional customer On The Rise as they embark on their Google Workspace journey. At the end of the course, you will use Google Calendar to solve a particular business challenge being faced by On The Rise. So let's take a look at the scenario we'll be using as you learn some key features of Google Calendar. Over the last three decades, On The Rise partner owners Thomas Omar and Saroja Malone have seen their company grow from a small family business to a global bakery chain. The days of casual on site family meetings are gone, replaced by those of a formal leadership team operating from many countries around the world. Each member of the team is full of great ideas and has the experience and expertise to implement them. Yet, with so many differing individual priorities, Thomas wants to make sure he can narrow the projects down to the critical few and keep his team productive and focused on the bakery's overall strategic objectives. Thomas asks for your help. He wants to set up recurring leadership team meetings using Google Calendar. He also wants to create a common calendar so he and other team members can track key dates for strategic On The Rise projects. Okay, ready to get started? Great. Let's begin.

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Google Workspace End User: Google Calendar

BeginnerSkill Level

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This module covers the agenda. It also introduces students to On the Rise and the course business challenge.

Exercise 1: Course introduction

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Exercise 2: Agenda

Google Calendar enables you to easily schedule meetings and events, create tasks, and collaborate on shared calendars, so you always know what’s next. In this module you’ll learn how to open and navigate Google Calendar.

Exercise 1: Introduction to Google Calendar Exercise 2: Calendar walkthrough Exercise 3: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 4: Quiz Question 2

With Google Calendar, you can easily reply to event invitations and manage the events that you create. This module explores how the features of Google Calendar allow you to update events, check guest attendance, delete and restore events, and search Google Calendar.

Exercise 1: Respond to and manage events Exercise 2: Activity 3 explained Exercise 3: Activity 3 Use Google Calendar search Exercise 4: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 5: Quiz Question 2

Google Calendar allows you to adjust settings to match the way you work. Now that we’ve covered the key features of Google Calendar, we’ll look at how to customize it further using a few of the different settings available.

Exercise 1: Customize Google Calendar Exercise 2: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 3: Quiz Question 2