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Introduction to Google Slides

  • Understanding cloud-native presentation architecture and browser-based editing
  • Differences between creating blank presentations and selecting from curated templates
  • Navigating the interface: toolbar, master layout panel, sidebars, and view modes
  • Best practices for establishing a consistent, professional slide structure from the outset

Manage Google Slides

  • Applying and customizing themes, fonts, and color palettes
  • Layout management: title, title-and-body, section headers, and blank canvases
  • Using the theme editor for organization-wide branding, including custom logos, backgrounds, and font styles
  • Accessibility basics: alt text, reading order, and contrast optimization for inclusive design

Enhance Google Slides

  • Adding and formatting tables, charts, and smart shapes for data visualization
  • Inserting, resizing, cropping, and styling images and drawings
  • Structuring speaker notes for presenter scripts and cue cards
  • Applying slide transitions and object animations for controlled, professional pacing

Organize Google Slides

  • Precisely reordering, duplicating, and deleting slides
  • Importing slides from other presentations and copying content across accounts
  • Hiding slides for conditional delivery and modular presentation workflows
  • Utilizing slide sorter view for structural review and macro-level flow optimization

Share Your Google Slides

  • Sharing via email, link generation, and direct placement in Drive folders
  • Understanding permission tiers: Viewer, Commenter, Editor, and organization-restricted access
  • Controlling external sharing, download/print permissions, and security boundaries
  • Using version history to track changes, restore previous drafts, and maintain audit-ready documentation

Collaborate with Google Slides

  • Real-time co-authoring: live cursors, simultaneous edits, and conflict resolution
  • Leveraging comments, @mentions, and action items for structured feedback loops
  • Resolving threads, assigning tasks, and tracking collaboration maturity
  • Facilitating cross-team workflows through template standardization, approval gates, and deployment readiness

Present Google Slides

  • Understanding Presenter View architecture: dual-screen control, timer, and slide advance options
  • Remote presenter capabilities: controlling slides via phone or tablet while speaking
  • Delivery techniques: pacing, audience engagement, and Q&A facilitation
  • Troubleshooting connectivity issues, utilizing offline fallbacks, and exporting to formats like PDF and PPTX

Business Challenge & Capstone Application

  • Scenario-based project: designing a branded, multi-slide presentation from template to delivery
  • Applied collaboration: real-time editing, commenting workflows, and version control
  • Delivering a final presentation with peer review and facilitator coaching
  • Receiving resource distribution: presentation best practices, accessibility checklists, and enterprise sharing guides
  • Engaging in open Q&A, skill reinforcement, and course closure

Requirements

  • Fundamental computer literacy and familiarity with web-based applications
  • Comfort navigating cloud storage, file management, and browser-based interfaces
  • No prior experience with presentation software or design is necessary

Audience

  • Professionals, educators, students, and team leaders creating sales, training, or project presentations
  • Cross-functional teams aiming to standardize collaborative presentation workflows
  • Individuals transitioning from desktop presentation tools to cloud-based, real-time collaboration platforms
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