Google Workspace (Google Apps) workshops

Google Workspace (Google Apps) Intro

Workshop offered: By arrangement.
Length: 15 minutes to 2 hours

Description: This workshop can be customized for your department, organization, or group of students. It lets you explore some of the features in Google Calendar, Documents, Groups, Gmail, Drive, and Sites. Open to everyone at PSU. No experience with Google necessary.

Gmail at PSU

Workshop offered: On demand or once a year
Length: 10 minutes to 1 hour

Description: Learn how to use PSU Gmail and access your @pdx.edu email address from the web interface at mail.pdx.edu. This workshop will teach you basic email management and how to use Gmail's features to make you more effective and organized.

• Account settings / Personalizing your Gmail interface

• Gmail Shortcuts

• Labels & Filtering

• Email tips

• Organization

• Searching

• Canned responses

• Archiving vs deleting

Google Calendar

Workshop offered: On demand or once a year
Length: 10 minutes to 1 hour

Description: Learn how to use Google Calendar

We'll cover the features of Google Calendar and tips you can use to manage your time and projects.

• Customize your calendar: make your calendar work for you

• Share your calendar: with co-workers and groups

• Add and edit events

  • Invite guests and edit access and visibility

  • Add documents to invitations

  • Create repeating events

  • Duplicate existing events

  • Easily find the best date and time for all your guests

• Calendar shortcuts

• Manage multiple calendars

Google Drive: Documents, Presentations, Drawings

Workshop offered: On demand or once a year
Length: 10 minutes to 1 hour

Description: Learn how to use Google Drive to create and edit documents, presentations, and drawings.

Google Drive is a collaborative platform, meaning that you can use to collaborate with others in real time. This workshop will teach you how to create, edit, manage, and share documents, presentations, and drawings. Some of the features covered will include:

• Share and collaborate with people at PSU and elsewhere

• Publish online and get links to embed in a website

• Create documents, add links, images, videos, tables

• Create presentations, add animations and videos

• Organize your files (sort, star, folders)

• Import files/folders

• Export files/folders

• Search 

Google Drive: Spreadsheets, Forms, Surveys

Workshop offered: On demand or once a year
Length: 10 minutes to 1 hour

Description: Learn how to use Google Drive to create and edit spreadsheets, forms, and surveys.

Google Drive is a collaborative platform, meaning that you can use to collaborate with others in real time. This workshop will teach you how to create, edit, manage, and share spreadsheets, forms, and surveys. Some of the features covered will include:

• Share and collaborate

• Publish online

• Gather and visualize data, crunch numbers

• Create charts, graphs, other visual tools with your data

• Upload an Excel spreadsheet and import data from an Excel spreadsheet into a Google spreadsheet

• Create surveys, track data

• Import files/folders

• Export files/folders

• Search

• Organize your files (sort, star, folders)

Google Sites

Workshop offered: On demand or once a year
Length: 10 minutes to 1 hour

Description: Learn how to use Google Sites to create and manage Google websites.

This workshop is an introduction to Google Sites. Google Sites is a simple platform that requires no prior coding experience or knowledge. Some of the topics covered will include:

• Plan your site

• Create a site: choose a theme

• Add content

  • Text

  • Links (open in new window)

  • Images

  • Videos

  • Content from other Google Apps: Docs/Drive, Calendars...

• Share your site

• Manage your site