Maximize Your Use of Google Calendar & More

In This Edition:

All things Google Calendar — Google Drive Storage – A quick tip on how to reduce this — Content Creation with Canva for Education Teams — Shortcuts: “I can’t see where it is!”

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OUR FOCUS THIS WEEK

It’s the final countdown… 🗓️

Just a few more days until the break.

Today, let’s look at some key Google elements; maximizing your Google Calendar and how to alleviate some space in Drive.

In this edition:

All things Google Calendar
Google Drive Storage – A quick tip on how to reduce this
Content Creation with Canva for Education Teams
Shortcuts: “I can’t see where it is!”

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

All things Google Calendar!

A lot of this you will know, but there’s a good chance you aren’t currently getting the most out of this extremely important resource. The following tutorial is broken down into chapters so you can pick and choose what you think you need to learn about. Cheers!

What is your calendar?
– Differentiating what you can see and what others can see
– How to declutter what you are seeing
Subscribing vs owning vs my calendar
View
– Who can see what?
– Who can edit?

Reminders (phone – app)
Can’t find something
Why should I have other calendars?
– Big Stuff
– Schedules/Timetables

Amazing Content Creation Just Got Better

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STORAGE

So you have to reduce your Storage in Drive & Gmail?

First, don’t forget to have a look at our previous info on Google Drive Storage.
Do you have a large video file that you know will offset your current storage? You can download large videos from your Drive and move them to Youtube (The storage space on Youtube = limitless). Watch this brief tutorial about safely (GDPR) using Youtube to house your videos:

SHORTCUTS

Sometimes there’s a ton of stuff in front of the other stuff you actually need (so much stuff!). Use this shortcut to hide all the windows/files related to the app you’re looking at. To bring the app back, click on the app in the dock or use command + tab.