Gemini: Essentials

A practical introduction to Google Gemini for everyday tasks. Learners explore the Gemini app and models, prompt effectively, use Gemini inside Google Workspace, create reusable skills, and work with multimodal input. They leave able to fold Gemini into their daily Google-based work.

What this course covers

The course runs across 8 topics, each one a short adaptive session rather than a recorded lecture. The tutor explains the idea, works an example, checks understanding, and adjusts the next step to the answer given.

Getting Started with the Gemini App and Models — Navigate the Gemini user interface, understand the differences between model tiers (e.g., Gemini Advanced vs. Standard), and configure basic settings for daily use.
Foundations of Effective Prompting — Learn the core components of a successful prompt (persona, task, context, and format) and practice iterative refinement to get the best outputs.
Advanced Prompting Techniques for Everyday Tasks — Apply advanced prompting strategies, such as few-shot prompting, role-playing, and step-by-step reasoning, to solve complex administrative and creative tasks.
Working with Multimodal Inputs — Upload and analyze non-text assets. Practice extracting data from images, summarizing long PDF documents, and generating insights from diverse file types.
Gemini in Google Docs and Gmail — Draft emails, summarize long threads, write reports, and rewrite content directly within Google Docs and Gmail using the 'Help me write' feature.
Gemini in Google Sheets and Slides — Create organized tables, generate formulas, and brainstorm slide structures and visual concepts directly inside Google Sheets and Slides.
Creating and Using Skills — Create a skill for a task you repeat and write clear instructions for it. Call it up in a chat by typing / (or @) and its name, and combine skills in one prompt.
Designing Your Gemini-Powered Daily Workflow — Synthesize everything you've learned. Build a personalized blueprint to integrate Gemini, Google Workspace extensions, and your own skills into your actual daily routine.

Skills you build

Results are measured against named skills in the OneRange taxonomy of more than 10,000 skills, so a manager sees proficiency per skill rather than a completion tick.

Who it is for

All employees. The material is pitched at beginner level, and takes roughly 120 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

It sits in the Tool: Gemini track of the Vero AI Catalog, and can be assigned to one person, a team, or the whole company.

How it is delivered and assessed

Delivery is conversational and interactive, including guided lab exercises. There is no video to sit through and no slide deck to click past.

Understanding is checked with a lab assessment of 5 items, with a pass mark of 70%.

Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Also in this track

All Gemini training courses →
Gemini: Essentials — Data & Analysis Playbook — A focused playbook for doing data and analysis work in Gemini. Learners run real tasks end to end - data cleanup, analysis, charts, and interpretation - and leave with repeatable workflows they can use the same day. About 45 minutes including the final.
Gemini for Developers: Essentials — Refactoring & Migration Playbook — A focused playbook for safe refactoring and migration with Gemini. Learners pin down what legacy code must keep doing, rename and extract functions in small behaviour-preserving steps, then move off deprecated Python date helpers without breaking the nightly job. They leave with a step-by-step refactor plan and the habit of checking what the tests do not cover. About 45 minutes including the final.
Gemini: Essentials — Everyday Work — This course applies Gemini to everyday knowledge work: email, documents, meeting prep, and quick research. Learners practice each workflow directly in Gemini and leave with daily habits, not just features.
Gemini: Intro — An absolute-baseline introduction to Google Gemini for first-time users. Learners see what Gemini is, how to open it (including inside Google Workspace), and how to send their first prompt. It gets total beginners started in minutes. About 30 minutes including the final.
Gemini: Essentials — Coding Playbook — A focused playbook for doing coding work in Gemini. Learners run real tasks end to end - code generation, explanation, debugging, and review - and leave with repeatable workflows they can use the same day. About 45 minutes including the final.
Gemini for Everyone Pathway — Complete fluency in Gemini and Workspace AI. Also includes 4 optional playbooks (Everyday Work, Research, Data & Analysis, Coding) to take any time after Essentials; they don't count toward the certificate.
Tool Mastery: Core Stack — Become fluent in the major AI assistants

Frequently asked questions

How long does this course take?

It runs roughly 120 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

How is it assigned to a team?

An administrator assigns it from the Vero dashboard to one person, a team, a department or the whole company, and sees progress and results per person and per skill.

Can we customise it with our own documents and terminology?

Yes. Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Course code TUL-GEM-101.