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duration:
80-90 minutes
Google Docs for digital autonomy and collaborative work
Do you want to learn how to create professional documents and collaborate in real time with your team? This introductory course on Google Docs will teach you how to master this cloud-based word processing tool. In just 90 minutes, you’ll discover how to leverage both basic and advanced features of Google Docs to write, edit, and share documents efficiently. From creating reports to collaborating on projects, this course will equip you with the skills needed to work more productively and stay organized.
Objective
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Create and customize documents using formatting tools, styles, and templates.
- Collaborate in real time with others by using comments, suggestions, and mentions to enhance teamwork.
- Insert visual elements such as images, tables, charts, and links to enrich your documents.
- Set access permissions and share documents securely with colleagues or external collaborators.
- Leverage advanced features like version history, smart search, and integration with other Google Workspace tools.
- Apply practical use cases to create professional documents, such as reports, meeting minutes, or project proposals.
Program
- Module 1: More than writing: Google Docs as a tool for digital autonomy This guide introduces what Google Docs is, why it's useful for digital independence and collaborative work, what's needed to use it, and how to access it from Gmail, Google Drive, or a web browser. It also guides the user in creating their first document and understanding the value of saving, organizing, and sharing information in the cloud.
- Module 2: The Google Docs interface: knowing to master This guide explains the Google Docs home screen and each part of its interface: top bar, menus, toolbar, ruler, workspace, and bottom bar. The goal is for users to overcome any initial apprehension about the platform, identify its main functions, and work with greater confidence and independence.
- Module 3: Text formatting: shaping your ideas This course teaches how to format text to improve the clarity and presentation of documents. It covers text selection, bold, italics, underlining, font size and type, colors, paragraph styles, alignment, lists, spacing, and copying formatting. It emphasizes the importance of formatting as a tool for communication and professionalism.
- Module 4: Inserting Elements: Enriching Your Documents It shows how to add elements that complement the text, such as images, tables, links, headers, footers, page numbers, page breaks, horizontal lines, special characters, and footnotes. The module aims to make documents more complete, visually appealing, organized, and useful for various work contexts.
- Module 5: Real-time collaboration: writing together without losing the thread It introduces one of Google Docs' most powerful features: real-time collaboration. It explains how to share documents, assign reading, commenting, or editing permissions, work simultaneously with others, use comments, respond to suggestions, and coordinate collaborative writing processes in an organized and efficient manner.
- Module 6: Version History and Change Control: Never Lose What You Wrote It delves into version history as a tool for recovering content, reviewing changes, identifying who modified what, and restoring previous versions. It also teaches how to name key versions, compare modifications, and use undo and redo functions. Its purpose is to strengthen the security, transparency, and memory of collaborative work.
- Module 7: Advanced Functions: Productivity and Professionalism Explore advanced tools that enable faster, higher-quality work, such as automatic tables of contents, bookmarks, internal links, voice dictation, document translation, offline work, web browsing, templates, word count, find and replace, and keyboard shortcuts. It's designed to improve productivity and strategic use of the platform.
- Module 8: Templates, best practices and sustainable organization The course concludes with strategies for sustainably organizing documents and folders in Google Drive. This includes creating folders and subfolders, using clear naming conventions, templates, star ratings, color-coding, advanced search, backups, archiving older documents, and organizational routines. The module aims to solidify digital habits that facilitate long-term workflows.
- Course certificate