GMail/Tasks

GMail is an emailing service that allows you not only to send and receive emails, but also allows you to personalise your inbox, create priority mail, translate messages into other languages and organise your emails with filters, starred messages and so much more.

Google Tasks is a to do list function that sits inside your GMail page. Here you can create lists of things you need to achieve, add dates to them, add them to your calendar, include more detail and then cross them off when you're done.

A quick taster of what GMail and Tasks are like and what they can do.

For the exam you are expected to be able to:

Compose an email
Translate received emails into another language
Create a contact list and use that to send an email to a group
Filter your emails
Change the settings to your emails so they can filter by different priorities, updates etc.
Star important emails
Create labels and organise your emails into these groups
Add an email to your task list
Understand how to find and add ons/Advanced features to GMail
Search your emails quickly to find what you're looking for

For Tasks, in the exam you are expected to be able to:

Create a task list from GMail
Add a due date to that Task and then find it in Calendar
Add detail to your task
Add a task directly from an email
Clear your completed tasks

This is a video by Frank Avella. He has many videos that cover each unit on the Google Fundamentals course. This video covers more just GMail, there are others available on his YouTube channel.

This is an excellent video by Brett Petrillo which shows you the things you need to know about GMail for the Level 1 exam. Only half of this video is about GMail. This was made a few years ago now, so may not shows things totally up to date.

GMail 101 & Tasks - GSuite Workshop

This is the Google Slides presentation that we use in our bootcamp to teach GMail and Tasks. Feel free to use it to refresh your memory of all the things you have learnt. Our thanks to David Stanfield who made the original slides, which we have then adapted.

Let's Do It - GMail/Tasks

Feel ready to test your knowledge on GMail and Tasks? Here is a link to the training centre's knowledge test and also a challenge to practice what you have learnt. Our thanks to Jonathan Frye for the ideas for the challenges.

Here is a link to Unit 4, sections 1 and 2 (Use GMail to communicate with your classroom community/Organize and search GMail to save time) from the Google Certified Educator Level 1 training page which covers all of the training you are expected to know about GMail.

Here is a link to Unit 5, section 2 (Get More Organized) from the Google Certified Educator Level 1 training page which covers all of the training you are expected to know about Tasks.

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