Introduction to G Suite | The University Network

Description

Introduction to G Suite is the first course in the G Suite Administration Specialization.

The series will serve as the starting place for any new G Suite admin as they begin their journey of managing and establishing G Suite best practices for their organization. These courses together will leave you feeling confident to utilize the basic functions of the admin console to manage users, control access to services, configure security settings, and much more.

Through a series of readings and step-by-step hands-on exercises, and knowledge checks, learners can expect to leave this training with all of the skills they need to get started as G Suite administrators.

In this course you will sign up for a G Suite account and configure your DNS records for G Suite. You will learn how to provision and manage your users, and will create groups and calendar resources for your organization. You will be introduced to your Cloud Directory and will learn how to split your organization into organizational units to simplify user and service management. Finally you will learn how to delegate admin privileges to other users in your organization.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course participants will be able to:

– Setup a G Suite account and access and navigate the admin console.
– Describe the key properties of the G Suite directory.
– Provision users, groups and calendar resources in G Suite.
– Undertake common user management tasks.
– Explain how an organizational structure can be used in G Suite to simplify user and service management.
– Describe the types of admin roles available in G Suite.
– Use the G Suite Help Center as an aid to managing G Suite.

Prerequisites – IMPORTANT PLEASE READ.

To get the most out of this training course, learners should be prepared to:
– Install and be ready to use the latest version of Chrome web browser available at https://www.google.com/chrome/
– Purchase a new domain through a registrar such as enom, GoDaddy. Note: If you already have a domain that you would like to use for the trial you can do this but this course does not provide detailed steps on how to associate an existing domain with a G Suite trial account. For detailed instructions on how to do that, please refer to this Help Center article: https://support.google.com/a/topic/9196
– Provide credit card details as part of the G Suite account setup. You will be using a 14 day trial G Suite Enterprise account during this course. As part of the sign up flow you will be required to provide credit card details. No charges for G Suite are made to your credit card until the trial period has ended. You must ensure that you CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION before the trial period ends to avoid and charges. This is very IMPORTANT so don’t forget!