Gemini for Work and Study
Free course, with a certificate from insiderOne University
A free Gemini course from insiderOne University, in English, that takes about 2 hours. A free, hands-on Gemini course: research with sources, study with Gemini Notebook, work in your Google apps, and check every answer. It ends in one assessed project. The course and the certificate are free. Anyone can verify the certificate at its own link, without an account.
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What you will be able to do
- Write a short research note with Gemini where every claim is checked against an open source
- Draft emails and documents from your Google apps on the free plan, and check every fact before sending
- Build a Gemini Notebook from real sources and use its quizzes and audio overviews to study
- Make and label an image in the Gemini app, and plan a short clip in Flow
- Set up a Gem or skill with clear instructions, and test it on two real tasks
- Choose privacy settings for what Google keeps, and keep personal data out of your chats
Students and early career people in India who use Gemini, or want to, on the free plan. You need a Google account and a phone or laptop. Some features are for people aged 18 or older, and each unit says which.
What is in it
- 1Start here: the Gemini app, its plans, and the habit that matters12 min
- 2Writing and research with sources, and checking them11 min
- 3Gemini with Gmail, Docs and Sheets on the free plan12 min
- 4Gemini Notebook: answers from your own sources12 min
- 5Studying with Gemini Notebook: audio overviews, quizzes and flashcards11 min
- 6Images in the Gemini app, and a first look at video in Flow12 min
- 7Gems, skills and custom instructions11 min
- 8Privacy: what Google keeps, and what you never paste12 min
Build a documented study pack with Gemini Notebook
Your topic and sources, your prompts, the claims you checked against their passages, what you changed, and how you will use the pack.
About 130 minutes in total.
Two levels
Finish the units and the project and you get the Certificate of Completion. Pass the live skill challenge on Google Gemini at Practitioner level or above and it becomes a Verified Certificate, which anyone you send it to can check for themselves.
Questions
What does it cost?
Nothing. The course and the certificate are free, and so is verifying it.
Can an employer check it?
Yes. Every certificate has its own page, and the code printed on it resolves there without anyone needing an account.
Do I need any experience?
No. These are written for students and people in their first job, and they assume nothing.
What do I actually walk away with?
The certificate, and the piece of work you made for the project. That goes into your insiderOne profile as a proof item, private until you choose to show it.
Know someone studying this?
The course and the certificate are free, and anyone they send it to can check it.