Google Calendar (Coursera)

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Google Calendar (Coursera)

With Google Calendar, you can quickly schedule meetings and events and get reminders about upcoming activities, so you always know what’s next. Google Calendar is designed for teams, so it’s easy to share your schedule with others and create multiple calendars that you and your team can use together. In this course, you’ll learn how to create and manage Google Calendar events.You will learn how to update an existing event, delete and restore events, and search your calendar.

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You will understand when to apply different event types such as reminders, tasks, and appointment slots.
You will explore the Google Calendar settings that are available for you to customize Google Calendar to suit your way of working.
During the course you will learn how to create additional calendars, share your calendars with others, and access other calendars in your organization.

What You Will Learn

  • Create and manage Google Calendar events.
  • Customize Google Calendar to suit your way of working.
  • Create, manage and subscribe to additional calendars.
  • Understand Google Calendar sharing options.

Course 2 of 7 in the Getting started with Google Workspace Specialization

Syllabus

WEEK 1
Course Introduction
This module covers the agenda. It also introduces students to On the Rise and the course business challenge.
Introduction to Google Calendar
Google Calendar enables you to easily schedule meetings and events, get reminders about upcoming activities, and collaborate on shared calendars, so you always know what’s next. In this module you’ll learn how to open and navigate Google Calendar.
Manage Google Calendar
Google Calendar makes it easy to set up events and share information. In this module we’ll explore how to schedule events, add video conferencing with Google Meet, attach documents from Google Drive, and set visibility and notifications.
Respond to and manage events
With Google Calendar, you can easily reply to event invitations and manage the events that you create. This module explores how the features of Google Calendar allow you to update events, check guest attendance, delete and restore events, and search Google Calendar.
Other event types
Google Calendar offers multiple ways to help you enhance your productivity and communicate about scheduling more effectively. In this module we’ll cover how to use other event types and features including out of office, reminders, tasks, and appointment slots.
Sharing calendars
Google Calendar is designed for collaboration. This module explores how to share your schedule with others and create and manage multiple calendars that you and your team can use together.
Customize Google Calendar
Google Calendar allows you to adjust settings to match the way you work. Now that we’ve covered the key features of Google Calendar, we’ll look at how to customize it further using a few of the different settings available.
Business challenge
In this module, you will put everything you have learned into practice by helping our fictional Google Workspace customer solve their business challenge.

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