February 2025 Quick Bytes Course Schedule

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All courses are offered at 3 pm via Zoom.  Please ensure your camera is on during our session to support collaboration and connection.

Date Course Name
Thursday, February 6  Google’s NotebookLM – Google Notebook LM can automatically generate a summary of your uploaded documents and/or create a podcast from your uploaded documents.   It can also suggest questions you may want to ask that are tailored to your documents. You can use buttons to create a few standard summary documents, like briefing docs or tables of contents.  There is also a new prompt to generate a personalized podcast using these uploaded documents.  Documents that you can upload include Drive, PDF, Text File, or copied text from a document or book.  Your personal data is not used to train Notebook LM, so any private or sensitive information you have in your sources will stay private, unless you choose to share your sources with collaborators. 
Thursday, February 13 Google Sheets – Basic   

Covering the basics of Google Sheets, this course will advance your skills in naming, saving, formatting rows/columns/cells, printing, importing/exporting, basic formulas and functions, notifications, sheet management, chart creation, and sharing.

Thursday, February 20 Google Sheets – Advanced

Learn the basics of formulas and functions, a few specific formulas and functions, and data visualization with timelines, charts, and pivot tables.

Thursday, February 27 Canva Graphic Design Basics  A graphic layout program for flyers, newsletters, presentations, infographics, mind maps, and more.  With thousands and thousands of templates, Canva is a great resource for design.  Learn how to manipulate text, edit images, and work with templates.