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Course Outline

Introduction to Google Slides

  • Understanding cloud-native presentation architecture and browser-based editing
  • Differentiating between creating blank presentations and selecting from curated templates
  • Navigating the user interface: toolbars, master layout panels, sidebars, and various view modes
  • Establishing best practices for consistent, professional slide structures from the outset

Managing Google Slides

  • Applying and customising themes, fonts, and colour palettes
  • Layout management techniques: title slides, title-and-body, section headers, and blank canvases
  • Utilising the theme editor for organisation-wide branding, including custom logos, backgrounds, and font styles
  • Accessibility fundamentals: incorporating alt text, defining reading order, and optimising contrast for inclusive design

Enhancing Google Slides

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

Organizing Google Slides

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

Sharing Your Google Slides

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

Collaborating with Google Slides

  • Mastering real-time co-authoring: live cursors, simultaneous edits, and conflict resolution
  • Utilising comments, @mentions, and action items to establish structured feedback loops
  • Resolving discussion threads, assigning tasks, and monitoring collaboration maturity
  • Implementing cross-team workflows: template standardization, approval gates, and deployment readiness

Presenting with Google Slides

  • Understanding Presenter View architecture: dual-screen control, timers, and slide advance options
  • Remote presenter capabilities: controlling slides via phone or tablet while speaking
  • Refining delivery techniques: managing pacing, engaging the audience, and facilitating Q&A sessions
  • 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 selection to final delivery
  • Applied collaboration: engaging in real-time editing, commenting workflows, and version control
  • Delivering the final presentation with peer review and facilitator coaching
  • Accessing resource distributions: presentation best practices, accessibility checklists, and enterprise sharing guides
  • Concluding with open Q&A, skill reinforcement, and course closure

Requirements

  • Fundamental computer skills and familiarity with web-based applications
  • Comfort with navigating cloud storage solutions, file management systems, and browser interfaces
  • No previous experience with presentation software or graphic design is necessary

Target Audience

  • Professionals, educators, students, and team leaders who create sales, training, or project presentations
  • Cross-functional teams aiming to standardise collaborative presentation workflows
  • Individuals moving from desktop presentation tools to cloud-based, real-time collaboration environments
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