Google Slides Essential Training
1h 34mBeginner2025-02-20
Authors
Jess Stratton
LinkedIn Learning Staff Author, Tech Consultant
Course details
Learn how to create high-impact presentations with Google Slides. Follow along with staff instructor Jess Stratton as she shows how to plan and build a presentation. Jess shows how to get started with a template or create a new slideshow from scratch. She covers adding and formatting text, working with images and shapes, and inserting video, diagrams, and charts. She also shows how to increase engagement with animation, collaborate with others in real time, download slides to your desktop, and use Presenter view to run the show.
Skills covered
Google SitesGoogle WorkspacePresentationsGoogleEssential TrainingBusiness Software and Tools
Concepts
Introduction
- Quickly create powerful presentations
Get Started with Google Slides
- Tour the interface
- Get started quickly with a template
- Create a presentation from scratch
Work with Slides
- Add, remove, and rearrange slides
- Change the slide layout
- Change the slide color, theme, or background
- Add your own text boxes
- Add fonts to your presentation
Images and Shapes
- Add images
- Work with shapes
- Align objects on a slide
- Understand object layering
- Crop images to shapes
Video, Diagrams, and Charts
- Add video
- Create diagrams
- Create a chart
Transitions and Animations
- Add slide transitions
- Create animation for objects and text
Collaborate and Present
- Add speaker notes
- Share and collaborate with others
- View previous slide revisions
- Print, email, or download slides
- Use Presenter view to run the show
- Present or record using your webcam
Use Gemini in Google Slides
- Use Gemini to summarize slides
- Use Gemini to help create slides
Conclusion
- Take Google Slides further