Background options

1. Background options

Background colors for slides in a presentation are white by default but can be other colors depending on the theme or layout applied to the slide. To change the background color, right click an empty area of the slide or open the Slide menu and select Change background. In the background dialog, choose a color from the drop down menu. An image can also be a background. Select Choose Image to pick a background image. Images can be added from your device by taking a picture with a device's camera, by URL, from Google Photos, from Google Drive, or via a Google image search. to revert to the default background for the theme, open the background dialog again and select reset. The background can also be made part of the theme by selecting Add to Theme. The background will be applied to any existing and all new slides created with that theme, but only in the current presentation.

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Google Workspace End User: Google Slides

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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 Exercise 2: Agenda

In this module, we will open Google Slides and explore the options available to you for creating a new presentation.

Exercise 1: Introduction to Google Slides Exercise 2: Create a new presentation Exercise 3: Activity 1 explained Exercise 4: Activity 1 Start a project in Google Slides Exercise 5: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 6: Quiz Question 2

Google Slides can contain many different types of content, including text, images, and videos. In this module we’ll explore some of the ways you can create and manage slides using the formatting tools available.

Exercise 1: Manage Google Slides Exercise 2: Activity 2 explained Exercise 3: Activity 2 Use themes and layouts Exercise 4: Adding and formatting content Exercise 5: Position objects on a slide Exercise 6: Speaker notes Exercise 7: Activity 3 explained Exercise 8: Activity 3 Change formatting and add speaker notes Exercise 9: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 10: Quiz Question 2 Exercise 11: Quiz Question 3

Using visuals to tell your story is a great way to capture your audience, summarize information, illuminate processes, and highlight key findings. With Google Slides, you have the option of adding shapes, tables, images, charts, and more. You can also add transitions and animations. In this module, we’ll look at some of the enhancements available in Google Slides.

Exercise 1: Enhance Google Slides Exercise 2: Add images and tables Exercise 3: Inserting objects into Slides Exercise 4: Activity 4 explained Exercise 5: Activity 4 Insert a linked chart Exercise 6: Transitions and animations Exercise 7: Activity 5 explained Exercise 8: Activity 5 Add slide transitions and object animations Exercise 9: Background options

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Exercise 10: Activity 6 explained Exercise 11: Activity 6 Change background color Exercise 12: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 13: Quiz Question 2 Exercise 14: Quiz Question 3

There are many ways to speed up your workflow when working with Google Slides. In this module, we’ll look at some of the options, including duplicating and ordering your slides, importing existing slides, copying slides, and hiding (or skipping) slides.

Exercise 1: Organize Google Slides Exercise 2: Activity 7 explained Exercise 3: Activity 7 Import and reorder slides Exercise 4: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 5: Quiz Question 2 Exercise 6: Quiz Question 3

In this module, we will look at the different ways to share your Google Slides presentations with others. We will discuss collaborator roles permissions, and you will learn how to track changes and manage versions of your presentations. We will also look at how you can publish your presentations to the web and Google Slides download options.

Exercise 1: Share your Google Slides Exercise 2: Share your presentation Exercise 3: Version management Exercise 4: Activity 8 explained Exercise 5: Activity 8 Share a presentation and check version history Exercise 6: Publication and download options Exercise 7: Activity 9 explained Exercise 8: Activity 9 Explore publication and download options Exercise 9: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 10: Quiz Question 2

In this module we’ll discuss how to use comments effectively to support the development of your presentations. You’ll learn how to add comments to your slides, assign an action item, resolve a comment, and view the comment history.

Exercise 1: Collaborate with Google Slides Exercise 2: Activity 10 explained Exercise 3: Activity 10 Use comments and action items Exercise 4: Notification settings and dynamic emails Exercise 5: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 6: Quiz Question 2 Exercise 7: Quiz Question 3

Creating slides is only half of the story -- presenting them is the ultimate goal. In this module, we will talk about presenting your Slides.

Exercise 1: Present Google Slides Exercise 2: Present your Google Slides Exercise 3: Activity 11 explained Exercise 4: Activity 11 Present your Google Slides Exercise 5: Present from a video conference Exercise 6: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 7: Quiz Question 2 Exercise 8: Quiz Question 3

In this module, you will put everything you have learned into practice by helping our fictional Google Workspace customer solve their business challenge.

Exercise 1: Business challenge overview Exercise 2: Business challenge explained Exercise 3: Activity 12 Business challenge Exercise 4: Wrap up