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G Suite Resources

G Suite comprises Gmail, Hangouts, Calendar, and YouTube for communication; Drive for storage; Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, and Sites for collaboration; and an Admin panel, Vault for managing users and the services, custom email addresses at a domain (@yourcompany.com), unlimited cloud storage (depending on plan and number of members), additional administrative tools and advanced settings, as well as 24/7 phone and email support.

Recommended Video Tutorials

Watching these videos will save you hours of time and will vastly improve your organization's records and communications.

About G Suite Productivity Tools (Not a Video)

Drive

Drive refers to Google’s web applications including: Gmail, Calendar, Hangouts, Calendar, YouTube, Maps, and News.

Basic apps include:

  • Docs (word processing)

  • Sheets (spreadsheet)

  • Slides (Powerpoint)

  • Forms (data collecting)

  • Drawings

Google documents can be shared with one person, a group of people or the entire world wide web. PDFs, Word Docs, etc. can also be stored and shared in Google Drive.

Squarespace & Google For Work

Squarespace works well with Google. Website forms can send data directly to Google Spreadsheets and also to any email address.

Google for Nonprofits

This is G Suite (formerly Google for Work) for free. Canadian nonprofits apply through TechSoup. We thank Google for their interest in supporting the work of charitable, non-discriminating non-profit organizations throughout the world.

Each Board/Staff member will have a separate Google account within your organization's Google account. These accounts are called "user" accounts. Each user has their own suit of Google applications. Documents in user accounts can be shared with other users.

Further Assistance

Contact Vic: (204) 471-4736

Gmail Tutorials

HOW TO USE GMAIL

By Anson Alexander from http://AnsonAlex.com

Published on Jan 15, 2019

Great for Gmail beginner and intermediate users.

Topics include (with video timestamps):

  • How to compose emails - 5:54

  • Manage received emails - 8:45

  • Understanding Labels - 12:17

  • Add your signature and other settings - 15:19

  • Email Search - 19:09

  • “Canned Responses” pre-composed messages - 20:22

  • Contacts - 22:13

Google Drive: Docs & Sheets

HOW TO USE GOOGLE DRIVE including how to store files, create docs / sheets and how to collaborate and share using the 2019 Google Drive user interface. Great for Google Drive beginner and intermediate users.

By Anson Alexander from http://AnsonAlex.com
Updated: January 11, 2019
27:41 minutes

Topics include:

  • About Google Drive - 1:05

  • Creating documents - 1:51

  • Commenting - 4:50

  • Using version history - 6:08

  • Google Sheets - 8:30

  • Creating folders & Organizing files - 10:28

  • Sharing - 18:32

  • Emailing as attachments 24:07

  • Settings - 26:03

  • Accessing settings - 26:03

Google Calendar

HOW TO USE GOOGLE CALENDAR

By Anson Alexander
Published on Jan 17, 2019
19:21 minutes

How to use Google Calendar including how to create events, invite guests, manage multiple calendars and share calendars using the 2019 Google Calendar user interface. Great for Google Calendar beginner and intermediate users.

Google Forms

HOW TO USE GOOGLE FORMS

A tutorial on how to use Google Forms for creating surveys, quizzes and questionnaires. Google Forms Topics Covered: How to create forms Different question types and answers How to create sections How to customize Google Forms settings How to share forms and add collaborators How to access form responses

By Anson Alexander from http://AnsonAlex.com
Published on July 31, 2018

Topics include:

  • Create forms - 00:25

  • Different question types and answers - 01:21

  • Create Sections - 06:55

  • Customize Themes - 09:38

  • Customize Google Forms settings - 10:24

  • Share forms and add collaborators - 11:45

  • Access form responses - 13:16

Sharing Documents

HOW TO SHARE DOCUMENTS IN GOOGLE DRIVE

Published on Feb 6, 2017
By Steve Dotto of Dotto Tech
2 minutes

Google Docs Geeky Tips & Tricks

7 GEEKY TIPS & TRICKS FOR GOOGLE DOCS

Published on Mar 26, 2017
By Jamie Keet at Teacher's Tech
14 minutes

Tips include:

  1. Best place to start your Google Docs from - 0:00

  2. Advanced sharing - 2:50

  3. Comments, assign users and individual tasks - 4:33

  4. Force a copy or preview of your Google Docs - 7:17

  5. The fantastic Explore feature! - 8:25 - research made easy.;.. (search) within your document window for relative articles and images; and use the quote icon to create footnotes automatically.

  6. Star and Move shortcut icon - 10:44

  7. The always important Revision History 11:46

Google Sheets: Intro to Formulas


INTRODUCTION TO FORMULAS IN GOOLGLE SHEETS | PART 2

Julian Juenemann of Google's Measureschool
Published on Nov 22, 2017

Formulas in Sheets make up powerful tools to analyse data dynamically in a Google Sheets. In this video we take a look at how we can use them to do basic data analysis and where you can find more formulas.
 
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