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1. Introduction: Hey there and welcome to my
course on Google Slides. In this course, we'll
cover everything from creating a Google
Slideshow, adding slides, removing slides, adding some
images, added some texts, will also cover some of the collaborative tools that
Google Slides has to offer. I'll show you how to
add some speaker notes and how to present it to a live audience or through
a Google Meet video called. My name is Kevin and I'm an expert in Google
services and tools. I have experienced in
Google technical support. And basically in this
course will give you a quick and brief
overview on how to use Google Slides to get you
up and going in no time, if this sounds like the
course for you than I look forward to
seeing you inside.
2. Account for Google Slides: Hey there and welcome
to the first tutorial. So now that we're using Google
Chrome to Google slides, okay, so let's jump right in. So basically right here I have a Chrome browser window open. Now you can use Safari, you can use edge. But I would suggest
when you're using Google services
like Gmail, Drive, dark sheets, and even slides, I'd recommend using Google
Chrome as the default browser. It just, it works best
when it loads quickly. And sometimes those extra little features
you'd like to use, they only work in
Chrome as well. So I just suggest that anyway, now I am currently signed in to Google using this account here
and at gmail.com account, you may not have one of these. If you don't, then what you
need to do is create one. Now I'm not going to create
one with us together today, but let's just show you
how I'm just going to open an incognito window and I'm
going to go to Google.com. So this is what it would look like if you weren't signed in, you would see a big
blue sign-in button. If you have an account,
click Sign in here. If you don't have an
account yet to use Google Slides and all the
other cool Google services, then you need to select
Create Account right here. And you can just say for myself. And then you have
to put your name, your last name, a username, which will be the thing that the thing that
comes before Gmail. Now I don't think I can
use Gmail, but basically, that will be the at gmail.com account
that you'll be using. You'll have your first
and last name and you set your password and
you select Next. Now, you'll go
through the process of maybe putting in
and recovery detail, maybe a recovery number. But at the end, you have yourself
a Gmail account. Once you accept all the terms, conditions, and when that
process is finished, you will find yourself logged in to a Google.com address
just like this. And you'll have a little
letter on the top right. Now you can add a
profile for all of that if you'd like to later, but that's not
important right now. The big thing is that
you're signed in. Now I'm using this Kevin on
Skillshare at gmail.com or use it for all of my
Skillshare courses or at least most of them. So I'm just logged in with that. I have a purple background here. You might have a white one, just in case you
notice the difference. So enough of that, Let's jump right in. So there are plenty of different ways to
access Google Slides. We could go to Google
slides on the search bar, and we will get the first
one here, google Slides. And thus just go back. You could go to the
URL bar up here and auto type in slides.google.com. And if I select that, I'm also brought
to Google Slides. You can also, if you
wanted to create a new slide just from scratch, you can type into the
URL bar, slide dot new. And when you put
it in slides that knew it actually creates
a brand new one for you. But look, Let's just go back
to the slides.google.com. Okay, so this is the
homepage for our slides. I have some slides shows up already created on this
account right here, some recent presentations
because I've used them for other courses that I've created. But you might have
nothing here at all. And it might tell you, Hey, create a new slide show. So what we could do here as well is have a look at the
themes here so we can create a blank
presentation and then there's other templates
and themes we can use. So if you select on
Template Gallery, it'll expand this list. And there's lots of cool
ones to work with here. So we've got general presentation
kind of recipe book. Do you know a lot of
them have nice layout. So when you select on them, they come formatted already. Which is very useful. You might find that helpful too. But for now, what we'll do
in this course is we're just going to select the
general presentation one, and I'm just going to
go to the settings. So before we do that, what we've done in
this video is sign in, create an account if
you don't have one, and ways to access slides. So in the next video we're going to begin our presentation. So I look forward
to seeing you then.
3. Creating & Editing Slides: Hey there, welcome back. So in this video,
we're going to start creating our Google
Slides presentation. So let's jump right in. Okay, so here we are, just where we left off
from the template gallery. We can hit the back button here and basically select blank. Let's just create a blank
presentation for now. Okay, Then we'll work
with a template soon. So when I select blank, I'm brought up with
the editor window. So just given us a
quick overview here. This left bar here
is generally where all of our slides
will be previewed. So you might have the main one we're looking at
here is highlighted. But if I was to
create more slides, for example, there's a button
here which says new slide. Look. As I create more slides, I have my slides on the left. I can choose from to edit. This top bar here is
our edit menu or our, let's say our main menu where
we have file edit view, all these things we
can do in slides. And then we have our
toolbar here, okay? We have our main Google
Slides toolbar where we can change the existing
slide that we're looking at. Over on the right. We have some comments. We'll look at that soon. We can join a Google
Meet with this slide. That's a nice handy feature. Then you can start
the slideshow if you were presenting it
right now to a team. Or you can share the slideshow. And that way you can share
it with other people. Maybe they can edit it or maybe they just
want to view us, but we'll go through that soon. And on the right
here we get again, we have some themes. So looking at the themes
we were at earlier, it's given us examples
of themes where we can do know it has the style created for us
and we can work from there. So let's, let's have a
look at this one here. We've got this kind
of Beach Day theme. So if I was to select this, it's going to import
the theme for me on my main first page. So we're currently
looking at page one, and now we've got
this theme here. If I click on page two, I can import the theme as well, but it's already imported
actually, never mind. When I imported to theme. It is all the extra
additional slides have the font already
created for us, so it makes life so much easier. Now I can close this theme bar by selecting that X button, and I now have some space. Okay, let's look at
our first slide. We can click to add a title. And all we have to do is say, let's just call this Google
Sheets course. Why not? Exactly, maybe the
nicest font and introduction to use
for a tutorial video, maybe it is. So look. All I know is let's just rock on with a click to add subtitle. Let's just say learn Google
Slides in no time with Kevin. Okay. Let's just say that for now. Um, so that's, that could
be your slide deck, could be your introduction
slide right here. Let's have a look at some
of the settings up here. So for example, we
have under File, not much going on. We'll look at all that soon. Do you know there's some
edits and reduce here. There's things that
we can insert. We can insert an image
on some of our slides, will do that soon. We can format again
like Google Docs, we can format some texts, we'll look at that soon. There's some slight options
like creating a slide, duplicating this slide, maybe, maybe even deleting
a Google slide. Okay, that's fine. And even with this
current slide, we have some options to change the background and basically
choose a background image. There's different layouts we can look at. So let's look at this. For example, I have slide one highlighted and I'm allowed to select different layouts
based on this slide. So there's a title slide
is section header, maybe a slide with two columns. Like that's really cool. But we're actually just go
back and make sure that this is the title slide, which is even zoom in
there so you can see it. We've got a title slide
and some other ones. The theme, we've already
selected our theme, that's fine. And there's transitions as well. So we can do a slide
transition between it's like a dissolve, a fade. So we can apply that
to all of the slides. And let's have a
look at that there and click on slideshow. So if I click the Download
button, it slides, it fades in and out of each slide might
make more sense if I had maybe some content
on my second page. Let's call this page one. Let's call this page too. I should call them slide two. Shouldn't do slide one, slide to slide tree. And maybe this one
is our last slide. So our conclusion. Okay. We can even give
this last slide, maybe a different layout. Maybe we don't want
it to have the same. Maybe there is like an end of this section header.
We could try that on. These are, these are examples of what you can
use them for both. Or we can use the
title slide again, I won't ask you to section
header as you mouse. Sorry my things onto minute. There we go. So yeah, conclusion. And then you can say, thanks. Very straightforward.
So we've got slide one, title slide, then 123
slides and conclusion. Let's just fill these
were contents for now. How about that? So let's, let's
say on slide one, we want some bullet points. What we are going to cover. Okay, so I'll just type that in. I can hit the Enter
key, a new line. Now what I can do is look at all these texts options up here. I can do a lot of things
such as adding in a shape. I don't even think I need
to do this for any reason. Denote maybe I do. Maybe that's something
I wanted to put there. I don't know why I need
that for right now. I'm just going to
remove this, delete. There might be instances
where you need that. For now, I'm actually just
going to create a bullet list. So look at this here we have
a bullet list and I can go. We're going to cover
how to create slides, Edit slides, choose themes. I'm just doing this
as an example, Okay? Choose Teams. Add text and images. Share your slide and may be present your
slide. Slides. So this is an example of how we can just make a nice
bullet point of view. Like let's say now for example, I wanted to make this
title of bigger. I can click on this
here and there's a font icon. I can bring it up. I should highlight
the text first. And then I can increase
the font size. As you can see here, I can make a bold or not bold. I can change the color. Maybe I like that one. Do you know? And that's, that's like, let's say on this slide we're
going to add a picture. Okay? So we can click here and we can basically insert an image. And you can upload one
from your computer. Or if you'd like, you
can search from the web. And what it will do is actually open Google images right here, which is really, really cool. I'm just going to
search for a cat. Happy Cat. I'll look at this. That's a happy cat right
there. He looks happy. I'm going to insert that. And it's going to insert
this huge image of a cat. Okay? Now what we can do is we
can resize that image. So by clicking on the corners, we can drag that image in. I can remove this
textbox completely. What I did there was I
clicked on the text box, we're on the blue line. So it highlights the blue line. So then I click the
backspace button on my key, select the back button if
you want to remove letters, for example, and it's gone. There's a happy
picture of a cat. Let's say I wanted to put
some texts on the right here. Then look up here, I can insert a text box and I can draw
my textbox right here. And it will basically create a textbox for me in this area. Now, nothing's going to happen. It's only going to I
can't drag it up because it's going to fill depending
on the information in it. So this is a happy cat. Look at a cat. He's so happy. Amazing. And I can move this box. I can place it. Just kinda like lines that show us where roughly
the center is. Do you know? This is getting a bit,
it's a bit silly. I know, but just showing you an example and
slide tree can go. After this course. You'll make a Google
Slide Show in no time. And let's for fun. Change the color of this text by clicking this button here
to text color button. Let's highlight this first. Make sure you highlight
the whole thing. What's the background
they did in Latino atlas? Change
the background. Let's go for point out. I'm going to center this text and let's make this text huge. I'm just going to bump, bump, bump, bump up the font. Make it a bit ridiculous. Very cool. Okay, so we have ourselves a
very simple slideshow here. That's how basically you
would create a title slide, main slide, slide one
side-to-side tree. As always, you can
add more slides to the left hand side by
clicking on this plus icon. And you can add whatever
type of slides you want. Like there's a slide
here with two columns if you need it as a header, a section header,
title and body. The best thing I would
always suggest there's just go crazy and
have fun with this. But basically what we've
done is created some slides. Now, in the next video, I'm just going to show
the presentation mode. We're going to mess around with the presentation mode if you were to show your
slide to people. So I hope you learned something. I hope that just gave
you a bit of a tutorial. You'll be surprised to see that. Maybe not surprised, maybe that it's quite straightforward. Google Slides have made a very straightforward and easy to create slides very quickly using the themes and
all of that as well. It's just a very,
very useful tool. So I look forward to seeing
you in the next video.
4. Presenting your Slideshow: Hey there and welcome back. So in this video we're
going to show how to present your
Google slideshow. So let's jump right in. Okay, So we're just
where we left off here. We have five slides or
interests lives like 123 with an image and some text and some layout
and some bullet points. And then we have our conclusion. So to show your
slideshow to others, what we will do is we could have the slideshow option here
to start slideshow options. So you have two options here. You can click start
slideshow and basically use the arrows on your
keyboard to present it. So if you were, let's say in a presentation, in a classroom, you know, maybe you're
at a work event and you needed to share your slideshow. You can open up your laptop and basically show your slideshow. Make sure your window
depends on your setup, but makes sure your window
is under presentation view. And it's set up to
deal with the screen. And basically you can click with the mouse or you can
click with your keyboard, or you might have a
clicker for the slide as well, but you don't need that. So with this one, you would have your presentation like this. And basically you
would click down. And then basically that would record or that word
move as you go. So you can be like, Oh welcome, Here's a picture of
a cat moving on. This is what we're
going to learn. And then you could say,
thank you very much. Does anyone have any questions? You could basically
depends really on what kind of slideshow
you want to create. You can select the
Escape key then to move out of your slideshow. There's an option
here done as well, the presentation,
sorry, Presenter View. You can start a slideshow with audience Q&A and
view speaker notes. So you can also click
Start from the beginning. So when you do the
presenter view, what this is doing is it has this kind of
where's it gone. It has this window here
that you can basically use if you have speaker notes and we'll actually add a couple of speaker
notes in a moment. And you can have a timer. So this bigger window
here can be presented to, let's say the room or
the class or whatever. And you could basically then
use this on your own screen. If you have a computer and
you have an external monitor, an external present.
I'm going blank. The o sugar. What's it called? Projector? Oh, my God, I'm losing my mind. It's a projector. I think it's all of
this. The sunshine in Ireland were
getting recently. It's driving me crazy. We're not used to sunshine here. So yeah. So if you have a projector and you have that screen attached, you can drag the bigger window
to the projector and then use the smaller one on your own screen using
your speaker notes. And then you can move the
slide back and forth with this on your computer and this
one and the other windows. So generally you can drag
these to the other monitor. When you're doing that. Speaking of speaker notes, Let's just hit the Escape key
and we'll get out of this. Now, what you'll notice here, let's move this motion because we added
that motion earlier. Remember, you can
change them as well. You probably noticed, um, that when you were presenting and moving
to walk through them, true to slides up and down, the transition was different. And you can change that
transition here by going to slide transition or clicking on transition
here as well. It opens that window. Now I just moved, I changed it again to slide from
left to right. And you can also do fast. Look at this cube
one. Let's try this one applied to all slides. And let's click Slideshow. Wow, look at that slide. It's kinda funny, isn't it? It's like, wow,
it's mind-blowing, but maybe this is what
you're looking for. Okay? Look at this. It's basically moving them
to a cube. Very cool. So I'm gonna go back to fade. I like fade, just nice and
simple apply to old slides. Very good. You can add speaker notes down here by dragging on
this bottom bar. So you might not see
the bar originally, but if I zoom in, I know I can't really
zoom in at the moment. If I zoom in a little bit here, you'll see that
there's three dots. And when I go over it, just a little hand icon appears and I can
drag it up and down. So if I do that and
I drag this up, I can have speaker notes for each of the slides that I'm on. Slide one, I can say, don't forget to tell
that funny anecdote. I spelled that wrong. I think I did Actually, no,
I didn't. I'm fine. I'm fine. No, that's okay. I think. Oops. I'm so don't forget to
tell that funny anecdote. And then let's say,
would slide three, um, make a joke? I don't know, I'm really
putting anything in here, guys. But you get the point. Okay? So now if I click Present
with the presenter view, when I go back to
the very beginning, the very first slide, let's say, and I click
on the second side, look at my speaker notes. Don't forget to
tell that anecdote. So I can have this on my screen and this
screen can be live, and I can be like
an animal alive. Here's a credit slide, Here's your edited
choose a team. I had texts and images. I just realized that
says tests, not text. And we're talking about sharing your slides and
presenting your slides. And oh, let me tell you about that funny time where something went wrong and this is
how you would fix it. And then maybe on the
next one you could, oh, here's a joke about the cat. I don t know. It's
basically something, it's basically private notes
for you, the speaker notes. And you might find
that very useful. You can pause your presentation
if something happens, let's say, let's say you have a five-minute limit
on your presentation. You can pause the timer. Let's say if, if something
happened in the room and you needed to reset your timer
instead of losing your time, you can pause and resume. Often needed to start it
again, you can hit reset. Anyway, let me close that
window and let me hit the Escape key on your
keyboard and your back. So the speaker notes is huge. It's very, very useful. Okay, you'll notice here on
the left also we can view our slides in this kind
of grid view as well. And you can put them
back to the like, the kind of a side view and
then the main grid view. This is useful if
you have hundreds of slides, for example. Right? Okay, Very cool. So as you can see, it's
quite straightforward. There's really not much to it. We're just kinda showing
you the big ones here at the moment how to jump in
and kinda go a bit crazy. In the next video,
I'm going to just quickly run over sharing
your slides with, let's say, another
Gmail or Google user. So I look forward
to seeing you then.
5. Sharing and Collaborating your Google Presentation: Hey there and welcome back. In this video, I'm just
going to show you how to share your slideshow or
your Google Slides dark, let's say with other Gmail
users or even non-GMO users. So let's jump right in. Okay, So as we were going over
our presentation earlier, we touched on the
Share button here. Now, currently I am the
only user, this user here. I'm the only one
that can share this, or sorry, view and edit
this presentation. But let's say if I wanted to
collab with a teammate or a colleague or a fellow
students working on a project. And we wanted to work on
the slideshow together. Then this is where the
collaboration tools kick in. What I can do is select
on the Share button. And it basically, I haven't
named my presentation yet. So it's going to ask that
Google Sheets course, yeah, let's call it that. I'm going to click Save. And now basically it is
something that says here. It says untitled presentation,
but it has a name. So if I click down
and click that again, it's going to change.
Maybe not quite. So. Why did we can do here is let's say you can
have another Gmail user. You can add them in here. So you can go like John,
John 12345678, gmail.com. Let's say this is a person, even though it looks like
it might be a person, you can share this Google slide with that other user, right? And let's say you add them. You can notify them. You can don't have
to notify them, which means basically
they'll get an email saying
shared with them. You can do that and
add little message. Hey, this is the
project for tomorrow. You can give them editing
access so you can tell them, Hey, you are an
editor, just like me. You can edit the slides, do whatever you'd like. You can add them as a
commentator or commentary. So what that does is basically
it only allows them to add comments to
the Google slide, which I'll show you in a moment. And you can also just
set them as a viewer. So they have nothing more than, no more power than to
just view the slides. They can't do anything. They can't editors,
they can add comments, they just can view us. And sometimes that
might be useful if you need to share this later with your boss or which are a
teacher or something like that. You might just need to share the final product width to them without allowing them
to do anything else. Now, that is basically
how we would do that, but I'm not going to
share it with John, but that's how you would do it. Now Let's say you didn't
want to give anyone access by email address. Let's say you had a lot of people who wanted
to view this doc. What you can do is you can go onto degenerate access here. So at the moment, only people with access can open this link. So there is, if I
copied the link, so I click Copy and basically
it's copied it for me. But if I open a private
browsing window now, which means I'm not
signed in to Google. And if I paste that link, it's going to say, you need to sign into Google
to view this thing. You need to sign in. And then we need
to check that you are one of the
people with access. Now, that can be awkward. So there's another option here. You can select anyone
with the link. So now anyone who has access
with the link is a viewer. So you don't want
to make sure anyone can editors or maybe you do. But basically anyone
with the link can view or anyone with
the link can comment. So I'm going to change
it up to comment. I'm going to select Copy link. Now I'm going to open another
private browsing window. So this would look like
I'm not signed in at all. I'm going to paste the Lincoln
and now I can view it. But where's my editing options? Go and look, all my editing
options have disappeared. So I can view the slides. I can look at this
Look, I can even see the Kevin is currently or me on the other window is
viewing slide to right now. So you can see that. But I can't do anything else right here apart
from commenting. So what I can do is I can
right-click a section of there. So let's go to slide two. I like this cat. I can right-click the cat
and select comment and go, Hey, I like this cat. But maybe can we try
another picture? And I can click Comment. And that way I'm contributing to the slideshow
without editing. Editing is so that can
be verified later. Now if I close this
and I go back to my editing window, I'm done. Look on slide three. I have a little
comment icon here with the number one next
to it, right there. So if I select on slide
three, it says anonymous. So I wasn't signed in. Remember, someone left
a comment on the cat. It highlights the cat photo for me and it says, Hey,
I like this book. Can we try another one? And I'll go. Sure. I can reply. And let's say I try
a different photo. I can replace image. I can search from the web. Happy cat. Let's do this one instead. Replace. Now after
replacing the image. So I can come back here
and I can select on this resolved icon
or dislike tick. It basically means
I've resolved this, disappears to comment has gone
now, and I've updated it. And you can go back
and view all of the common tastes tree by
clicking on this button here. So look at that,
That's really cool. So anyone can come in and view that if they have
the right access. So that's what's amazing about collaborative tools
and Google slides. So that's your commenting and that's what we
were talking about, commenting and accessing that. Apart from that,
it's usually very useful to have anyone
with the link as well. Okay, That's all we're looking
at really in this video. We might just have a look over one or two little
things in the next video to wrap up the course. But I hope you
found that useful. So I look forward to seeing
you in the next video.
6. Final Tips & Conclusion: Hey there and welcome back. In this video, we're
going to just wrap up some final settings
and some things you can do on Google slides. So let's jump right in. So here we are just
where we left off. We went just to kinda recap on everything
we've done together. We've looked at how to
create a whole slide. Do you know if we go
back here and select on this icon here to slides home, we picked a theme or we
picked a blank theme. We created this slide,
this recent presentation. If I open that again,
it brings us back. We added some slides. We added a header slide
and ending slide. A couple of slides in
the middle by adding text and content and
bullet forming things. We edited some texts by making a bigger change
in some colors. We went through some of the
options up here regarding the background transition
layout and the theme as well. We've shared this slide, we've done some slides show options including
the speaker notes. Are those couple of more things. So get, let's say I wanted
to move the slides around. Okay, So let's say slide two
should now become slide for, for some reason, I can click and drag this slide and
move it up and down. And I can move it
down one by one. Or I can move it all the way
to the top if I wanted to. So that's nice and handy that
we can move these around. Do you know what I mean? So you might find
that very useful. There's a lot of nice handy
options appear as well. Like things you'll
see here on the tools that say things like
voice type speaker notes. So I mean, I could I could
put speaker notes into this by speaking into
your microphone. I would suggest I have another
course called Google Docs. And a lot of this
is crossed over. A lot of the things
you can do here with information editing
and adding content. A lot of it's based off of
the Google Docs software, which is another tool, which is basically Google's
version of Microsoft Word. It's really, really handy. So I would suggest checking
out that course just to get a real deep dive of some of these tools because there's
a lot of crossover. The only things here really
are related to slides, like things you can move with
the slides apart from that, adding content and
editing content. While all of this
formatting tools, it's already in google Docs, totally, I would suggest
checking that out. The last thing I'll check
here is this Google Meet. So let's say if I
had this call ready, google Meet is essentially Zoom. It's a video call in
software to Google offer. It actually has no limits, like time limit that Zoom
is introduced recently. So you might find it
useful for Google users. You can click, join a
call or present this tab. So I can click on this and basically I can
start a new meeting or I can join an existing
meeting with this tab. If I started a new meeting, for example, will it give access to my camera
and my microphone? Sure. Why not? So there I am with my laptop. My laptop camera. Not exactly this camera here, but we're like this camera here. So we've got a
double view of me. And it basically I can add other people to
this so I can share this URL with other users
and they can join the call. And then I can share this dark with them when
we begin or not talk, but this slideshow when we
begin the call together. So I can do picture in picture. I can basically show them
this while I'm hovering. I can go back, oh, basically opened in a
new tab by accident. And I just close the
cold air so it's over. So basically anyway, it's
a very useful if there's an existing Google Meet that's happening and
you want to join in. All Google Meets come with
a cold or cold essentially. And you'll notice that
the code is always the last nine or nine
or ten letters here. So after Meet google.com, the forward slash, anything
that comes afterwards, is the meeting cold? So if you had a I'm just going to hang
up the call down here. So if you had that code, you could use the code to
enter it in or the link. And you can join the
meeting which are slideshow and then
present it from there. Okay, so that's really useful to actually play with
that and tried it out, even with yourself or
with another Google user. And see how that works. Because it's very useful
when you're teaching, let's say to a class of ten
people on Google, nice. And you want to use
your slideshow. Anyway, I hope all of
this was very useful. I wanted to make
this course nice and brief without going super into. Okay, here's every
single little setting in every drop-down. I just wanted to throw you into the everything you need to know really how to get up and going with Google
Slides quite quickly. And I hope we've achieved that. I mean, at the end of the day, it kinda depends on the
slideshow you want to create. You can create almost any
type of slideshow like you would with Microsoft PowerPoint. Except on this, the
fantastic thing here is it's collaborative. So the whole idea of sharing
edit access is just amazing. So look, I hope you found
this course very useful. And if you enjoyed it, I would appreciate if you
left a review on the course, if you feel like there's
any feedback you could add, please feel free to leave
it in the discussions area, and I'll happily get
back to you there. But otherwise,
thank you so much. Feel free to check
out my profile. I've got plenty of long courses. In short courses
on Google tools. You might find something
useful layer as well. I cover Google Drive,
Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Docs,
google Sheets. I do quite a lot of all the
courses on Google services, so feel free to check it out and I hope you had a good time. Enjoy the rest of your
day, week, month, and wherever, wherever
you are in the world. I wish you the very best
and talk to you soon.
Kevin O'Brien, Over 8000+ students on Skillshare
