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Using Gemini at Work

Get real work done with Gemini where you already work. Know when to use the Gemini app and when to use Gemini inside Gmail, Docs, Sheets and Drive, build Gems for repeat tasks, use NotebookLM for answers grounded in your own documents, and understand how a personal account and a Workspace account treat your data differently.

9 lessons · about 70 minutes · pass at 80% · certificate does not expire

What you will be able to do

  • Tell the Gemini app apart from Gemini in Workspace and pick the right one for a task.
  • Write prompts with context, a role, a format and an example so the first answer is usable.
  • Use Gemini in Gmail, Docs, Sheets and the Drive side panel to draft, summarise and find things, and check what it produces.
  • Build a Gem for a repeat task with clear instructions and reference files.
  • Use NotebookLM to get answers grounded in your own sources and check every citation against the source.
  • Apply the company AI policy, including the personal versus Workspace account difference, what never to paste, hallucinations, bias, copyright and disclosure.

Lessons

  1. The Gemini app versus Gemini in Workspace

    Gemini shows up in two places that look alike and behave differently. Know which one you are in and what each is for. · 8 min

  2. Personal versus Workspace accounts, and what happens to your data

    The same prompt is treated very differently on a personal Gmail account and on your company's Workspace account. Here is the difference and why it matters. · 7 min

  3. Prompting Gemini well

    The answer is only as good as the brief. Four parts to a good prompt, and one change per follow-up. · 8 min

  4. Gemini in Gmail, Docs, Sheets and Drive

    The side panel can draft, summarise, calculate and find things without you pasting anything. Here is what each app's panel is good at, and how to check it. · 9 min

  5. Gems for repeat tasks

    A Gem is a saved version of Gemini with your instructions and files baked in. Build one for each job you do every week. · 7 min

  6. NotebookLM for source-grounded answers

    NotebookLM answers only from the documents you give it and shows you where each sentence came from. Learn to use it, and to check the citations anyway. · 9 min

  7. AI safety and judgment, part 1: what never to paste

    Some information must never go into an AI chat, some needs the names removed first, and most is fine. Learn the three buckets, and how the side panel changes them. · 8 min

  8. AI safety and judgment, part 2: hallucinations, bias, copyright and policy

    Gemini can be confidently wrong, quietly unfair, or borrow someone else's work. Know the four risks and the one-line disclosure habit. · 8 min

  9. Lab: summarise a Drive folder with NotebookLM and cite each point

    Put the course to work. Load a folder into NotebookLM, get a cited summary, then find the point whose citation does not say what the summary claims. · 6 min

  10. Assessment: Summarise a Drive folder with NotebookLM

    Load a folder of documents into NotebookLM, produce a cited summary, then find the point whose citation does not say what the summary claims.

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