Spreadsheets are the cornerstone of effective business around the work.
They are everywhere - in education, finance, sales, government. Farmers use spreadsheets to keep track of crop performance and soil changes, universities use it to analyze complex data.
Spreadsheets are everywhere.
And Google Sheets has taken that even further by make spreadsheets more user-friendly and interactive with for people all over the world.
If you show the slightest knowledge of spreadsheets you suddenly become the go to. The pro. The one to notice and get help from. Bosses recognize your skills and your career advancement begins to look really good.
Not only that but mastering spreadsheet skills will make your life a whole lot easier. You start to learn the shortcuts and vital tools to help you thrive.
Why this course?
It's 100% FREE
If you have had little to no exposure to creating and working in spreadsheets then it can be pretty overwhelming.
Listening to a bunch of terms and trying to memorize esoteric formulas can be tough not to mention boring. But this seems to be the approach that many course take in teaching you about spreadsheets courses.
You might feel like you accomplished something by listening the videos, but when you need to put what you 'learned' into practice, you suddenly find that you can hardly remember anything.
You need to practice what you are learning as you go, with real world examples that are going to help you truly understand how things work.
In this course, I want to take you on a journey from the basics of using Google Sheets spreadsheets through to mastering the essential tools and formulas that you need to improve your efficiency in the workplace, impress your team and make your administrative life easier.
Plus, having tight spreadsheet skills looks amazing on your resume.
This course is about getting in there and completing real-life projects. Projects that you can take away with you and use in your own personal and business life.
If you are looking for a boring lecture-style course here, then this course isn't for you.
The most interesting courses that I have ever taken are the ones where you can follow along and actively create something. You know, apply my skills immediately with a real context to what I am doing and the reward of accomplishing a task at the end.
I always learn the most from these courses.
In this course, we will create a simple Budget Sheet that will take you through the basics of Google Sheets.
Not only will we cover how to use:
- tools like Charts, Filter, and Data Validation
- the main functions and formulas you need to ace your Google Sheets work-life
but we will look at:
- spreadsheet design principles
- workflow processes
- develop our shortcut skills, and
- collaborating with others.
What's in the course?
You will get:
- 11 videos covering project 1.
- Over 1.5 hours of video content.
- Each video contains a takeaway summary of what you have covered.
- Starting templates for each project.
- Handy links to further reading or videos.
- Staging templates at strategic points in the course so you can compare your progress.
- A community in the comments section for each video to get support.
- Plus you will walk away with a reusable project that you created.
Who is this course for?
- Beginners to Google Sheets looking to advance their skills.
- People looking to sharpen their skills and improve their efficiency in Google Sheets
- Anyone looking to better understand spreadsheet design and workflow.
- Someone who knows the benefit of learning through doing and is excited about building some projects as they learn.
Example Curriculum
- 001 | Creating your first file (6:53)
- 002 | Google Sheets User Interface basics (6:48)
- 003 | Copy the budget data into your Google Sheet (6:36)
- 004 | Identifying income and expense values (6:46)
- 005 | Making the expense data negative (8:54)
- 006 | Create a rolling total of profit and loss (6:02)
- 007 | Adding a month and year column (7:43)
- 008 | Formatting your budget to make it look sharp (16:17)
- 009 | Validating the data in your cells with Data Validation (11:49)
- 010 | Creating a chart to display your profits and losses over time (7:19)
- 011 | Creating different views of your data with filters (6:21)
Your instructor
I’m Scott.
I’m an experienced Google Workspace educator and developer.
I’ve been working in education around the world as a teacher, trainer, administrator and manager for over 15 years. I’ve always liked to teach, and blending it with my love of tech is a real joy for me.
In 2020, Google kindly made me a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Google Workspace for my educational outreach in Google Sheets and Google Apps Script.
In recent years I’ve had the pleasure of building the administrative backbone of a 140 teacher, 3,500 student-strong university preparatory year deanship program. Migrating it to Google Workspace and providing automation solutions for our heavy administrative demands so that the teachers could focus on what they are great at – teaching.
These days, I’m a small to medium business administrative automation consultant and educator. I generally try and achieve these ends by building no-code Google Workspace and Google Apps Script solutions.
I also, provide tutorials and courses on my website Yagisanatode. I try and keep things informal and fun while packing a lot of detail that you can choose to read through in its entirety or just pick out the good bits. I spend a lot of time researching my material and I hope you get a lot out of it. After all, it is as much of a resource for me, as it is for you.
