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Google Workspace AI: Essentials

The suite-level companion to M365 Copilot training: using Gemini across Docs, Sheets, Slides, Gmail, and Meet as one connected workflow. Learners practice cross-app tasks rather than isolated features.

What this course covers

The course runs across 10 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.

  • The Connected Workspace: Introduction to Gemini — Understand the role of Gemini as a cross-app assistant. Learn how to access the Gemini side panel across Google Workspace and master the core components of an effective prompt.
  • From Conversation to Action: Google Meet to Docs — Practice taking a Google Meet transcript or summary and using Gemini in Google Docs to draft a structured project brief, assigning responsibilities and key milestones.
  • Structuring Information: Google Docs to Sheets — Learn to extract unstructured data, action items, or tables from a Google Doc and use Gemini in Sheets to generate a clean, organized project tracking spreadsheet.
  • Data to Narrative: Sheets to Google Slides — Explore how to analyze data trends in Sheets and collaborate with Gemini in Slides to generate a compelling presentation outline, slide copy, and supporting AI imagery.
  • Communicating the Vision: Slides to Gmail — Draft tailored email campaigns and executive summaries in Gmail based directly on your Google Slides presentation, optimizing the tone for different stakeholder groups.
  • Inbox Mastery: Triaging Gmail Threads with Gemini — Use Gemini in Gmail to summarize long, complex email threads, draft contextual replies, and extract key follow-up tasks to keep projects on track.
  • Pre-Meeting Alignment: Gmail to Google Meet Prep — Synthesize client feedback and internal emails into a concise briefing document in Google Docs to prepare your team for an upcoming Google Meet alignment call.
  • In-Meeting Efficiency: Maximizing Google Meet — Discover how to use Gemini during live Google Meet sessions for real-time notes, language translation, and generating instant post-meeting action summaries.
  • End-to-End Suite Workflow Challenge — Execute a complete, multi-app workflow scenario: receive a client request in Gmail, analyze the project in Sheets, draft a proposal in Docs, and build a pitch in Slides.
  • Responsible AI: Security, Privacy, and Prompt Iteration — Learn the essentials of data privacy in Google Workspace, how to evaluate AI-generated outputs for accuracy, and techniques for troubleshooting flat or off-target prompts.

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

Workspace organizations. 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: Google Workspace AI 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, branching scenario 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

  • 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.

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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-GWS-101.