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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 interface: toolbar, master layout panel, sidebars, and view modes
  • Best practices for maintaining consistent, professional slide structure from the outset

Manage Google Slides

  • Applying and customising themes, fonts, and colour palettes
  • Layout management: title slides, title-and-body sections, section headers, and blank canvases
  • Using the theme editor for organization-wide branding (custom logos, backgrounds, and font styles)
  • Accessibility essentials: adding alt text, setting reading order, and optimising contrast for inclusive design

Enhance Google Slides

  • Adding and formatting tables, charts, and smart shapes for effective 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 to achieve 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
  • Using the slide sorter view for structural review and macro-level flow optimization

Share Your Google Slides

  • Sharing via email, generating links, and placing files in Google Drive folders
  • Understanding permission tiers: Viewer, Commenter, Editor, and organization-restricted access
  • Controlling external sharing, download/print permissions, and security boundaries
  • Leveraging version history to track changes, restore previous drafts, and maintain audit-ready documentation

Collaborate with Google Slides

  • Real-time co-authoring: managing live cursors, simultaneous edits, and conflict resolution
  • Utilizing comments, @mentions, and action items to create structured feedback loops
  • Resolving comment threads, assigning tasks, and tracking collaboration maturity
  • Implementing cross-team workflows: template standardization, approval gates, and deployment readiness

Present Google Slides

  • Mastering Presenter View architecture: dual-screen control, timer functions, and slide advance options
  • Remote presenter capabilities: controlling slides via phone or tablet while speaking
  • Delivery techniques: managing pacing, engaging the audience, and facilitating Q&A sessions
  • Troubleshooting connectivity issues, utilizing offline fallbacks, and exporting formats (PDF, PPTX)

Business Challenge & Capstone Application

  • Scenario-based project: designing a branded, multi-slide presentation from template to final delivery
  • Applied collaboration: engaging in real-time editing, commenting workflows, and version control
  • Final presentation delivery accompanied by peer review and facilitator coaching
  • Resource distribution: access to presentation best practices, accessibility checklists, and enterprise sharing guides
  • Open Q&A session, skill reinforcement, and course conclusion

Requirements

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

Audience

  • Professionals, educators, students, and team leaders who create presentations for sales, training, or project purposes
  • Cross-functional teams looking to standardise their collaborative presentation workflows
  • Individuals transitioning from desktop presentation tools to cloud-based, real-time collaboration platforms
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