Google Workspace Essentials: Free Course

About this course

Build practical office skills across Google Sheets, Slides, Docs and Forms. This free Learn Skills Daily course retains all nine videos in the publisher’s Google Workspace curriculum, including beginner and advanced training for the four applications and the additional Docs full-course session.

Course at a glance

What you’ll learn

• Use the Sheets classes to organise, calculate and interpret information in a spreadsheet.
• Follow the Slides and Docs training to create clearer presentations and written materials.
• Use the Forms classes to understand structured information collection and the design of a useful form.
• Connect the four applications around a practical office task while reviewing clarity and sharing choices.

Skills you’ll gain

• Google Sheets
• Google Slides
• Google Docs
• Google Forms
• Office collaboration
• Information organisation

Course Overview

The course connects four common workplace tasks: organising spreadsheet data, creating presentations, writing documents and collecting information through forms. The source includes paired beginner and advanced classes for Sheets, Slides, Docs and Forms, followed by an additional Docs compilation. It focuses on these applications rather than claiming to teach every Google Workspace product or administrative feature. Work through a pair of classes before switching to another application, and consider how the information should move between your documents. The recorded interfaces reflect their teaching dates; current sharing controls or features may differ.

How to study the course

• Study each application’s beginner and advanced classes as a pair. Keep the additional Docs full-course video available for extended review.
• Use one small office scenario across the applications. A shared purpose makes it easier to see how a spreadsheet, document, deck and form support each other.

Use the searchable classroom lesson list to revisit a specific explanation. Pause after a useful demonstration, reproduce a small example and explain the result in your own words. Keep a short note of what worked, what changed and what you still need to understand before moving on.

Who is this for?

This course suits students, administrative professionals and teams using Google’s office applications. It is useful for learners who want a connected introduction to the tools covered rather than a collection of isolated shortcuts.

Before you start

Basic browser and computer skills are sufficient to begin. Practice needs access to the relevant Google applications. Features or organisational permissions can vary; free video viewing does not provide a paid Workspace plan.

Put the lessons into practice

Plan a fictional internal workshop. Use a Sheet to organise attendance and costs, a Doc to describe the agenda, a short slide deck to explain the purpose and a Form to collect invented feedback. Keep the same names and dates consistent across the materials. Review whether each file serves a clear purpose and whether another person could use it. Consider the audience before choosing a sharing setting, and use sample information while you learn. Revisit the relevant class to improve one weak part of the set.

This optional activity is provided by WikiFree for independent practice. It is not a graded assignment from the instructor. Keep your working notes, check the result against the task you defined and return to the relevant lesson when an assumption or technique is unclear.

Certificate / Assessment

Watching the public videos and using WikiFree progress tracking does not award a certificate, exam voucher, academic credit or instructor assessment.

Use your practice output to review what you can now explain and repeat independently. Completion tracking records your study progress; it does not replace an assessed qualification or professional experience.

Frequently asked questions

Provider: Learn Skills Daily. Videos play from the Learn Skills Daily channel on YouTube.