Free online courseGoogle Slides Tutorial: Beginner to Advanced Presentation Design

Course Description

Learn to design polished, professional presentations with the free Google Slides Tutorial: Beginner to Advanced Presentation Design. Built for the Technology and Programming category within Office Productivity, this course guides you from your first steps in Google Slides to advanced formatting, visual design, and delivery features that make your decks look clean, consistent, and compelling.

You will move confidently through the workspace, creating presentations from scratch or with templates, managing files in Drive, and organizing slides for a smooth narrative flow. You will improve readability with typography controls, spacing, alignment, lists, and advanced text cleanup, while keeping designs consistent with themes and master slides.

For visual storytelling, you will work with images from multiple sources, crop and mask them into shapes, apply adjustments and effects, and precisely position and arrange elements using align, distribute, rotate, order, grouping, guides, and grid tools. You will also add shapes, lines, arrows, word art, tables, special characters, links, slide numbers, and diagrams to build structured, modern layouts.

To make presentations more engaging, you will embed video and audio, add transitions and animations with timing control, and use presenter tools such as speaker notes, presenter view, and live Q and A. You will also explore collaboration and sharing workflows including comments, chat, version history, offline access, importing and copying decks, and exporting options for printing, emailing, and downloading. Accessibility features, alt text, and helpful productivity tools like spell check, find and replace, and menu search round out the skills so you can create, present, and collaborate with confidence in Google Slides.