Google Docs NINJA Challenge

Directions: Complete the following tasks to master Google Docs. You will demonstrate your mastery of most tasks in the right column unless it is blacked out. In that case, your skills will be applied to whole-document settings or other areas, and it is unnecessary to insert anything in the box. Complete all 4 levels to become a Google Docs Ninja!

Level 1 - White Belt Skills Pass (CT)

Task

Demonstrate Task Here

Type and Format Text

  • Type a sentence in the box to the right.
  • Change your text to 18 pt, center the text, and apply bold and italics.

My name is Briana

Change Text Color and Font (Try the More Fonts option)

Change this text to a different color.

Change a Doc’s name

  • Remove the word “copy of” in the name of this document and add your name.

Eg: Joe - Google Docs Challenge

Insert A Picture

  • Find a school-friendly picture of a penguin and insert it in the  box to the right.

Highlight Text  (Hint: Text background color tool)

Highlight this statement.

 line spacing

Change the line-spacing in this cell from single to double-spacing

Change Margins

Use File > Page setup to change this document’s left and right margins to .75

Level 2 - Green Belt Skills - Pass (CT)

Task

Demonstrate Task Here

Inserting web links (hyperlinks)

  • Type in the name of your class site in the box to the right
  • Open a new tab or window on your browser & navigate to that site. Copy the site’s URL address.
  • Return to this document, highlight the text you typed, and hyperlink it by using the icon in the toolbar that looks like a chain link (or using ctrl+k)

LSU (Room)

Insert a Table

  • Insert a 2 x 2 table into the cell to the right.

Calculate Word Count

  • Type the current word count of this document in the box to the right.

Hint: Tools menu

Current Word Count:

5861

Create a Bulleted List

Use the Bulleted List tool to add bullets to the three items listed under “Things to Pack”.

Things to Pack

  • sunscreen
  • towel
  • camera

Change the font and color at the same time.

Change the font and color of this text to make it look like the text below.

(Make it look like this)

Make a fancy title

  • Go to this site and make the title “Google Ninja”

▀▄▀▄▀▄ 𝔾𝕠𝕠𝕘𝕝𝕖 𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕛𝕒 ▄▀▄▀▄▀

Insert Word Art by inserting a Google Drawing into this table. Make a heading in Word Art “Google Ninja”

HInt: Insert > Drawing > Actions > Word Art

Level 3 - Red Belt Skills -Pass (CT)

Task

Demonstrate Task Here

Change Table Properties

  • Add a row to the table.

Hint - Right click inside table

Change Table Properties

  • Change the background of the top-right cell to from pink to blue.

Hint- Right click > Table Properties

Add page numbers to your document at the bottom of each page. Hint - Insert menu

Add a Comment

  • Answer the question to the right using the comment feature. Do not type your answer directly in the box

            Hint -  Insert menu

What are your 3 favorite ice cream flavours? (Remember, don’t answer here. Highlight the question with your mouse; then use the Insert menu to find the Comment feature).

Insert a Page Break

  • Insert a page break just below this table so the “Level 4 Skills” are on a separate page   Hint - Insert menu

7 pages


Level 4 - Black Belt Skills

Task

Demonstrate Task Here

Check Revision History

  • Refer to this document’s Version History (File menu)
  • Click the “See version history” button at the bottom of the window that appears to the right
  • Count the number of revision markers Google has noted so far

How many revision entries/markers has Google noted so far for your document?

Note: Use the “x” in the top right corner of the Revision history window to close it when you are finished.

Insert a drawing

  • Put the mouse in the box to the right
  • Use the Insert menu to choose Insert > Drawing
  • Use the shapes and drawing tools to insert a fun drawing/scribbling

Insert Equation

  • Put the mouse in the box to the right
  • Use the Insert menu to accimress the Insert > Equation tool.
  • Use that tool to write this math formula in numbers (you will type these) & math symbols (you will use the math tools that appear under the regular toolbar to insert these)

Equation: 24 divided by the square root of 16 equals 6

Use the Research Tool

Part 1

  • Use Tools > Explore to open the Explore tool.
  • Search for “Sistine Chapel”
  • Use the drop down next to the “g” to filter your results for images only (see below).

  • Choose an image. Click and drag it into the box to the right. Note the footnote citation that appears at the bottom of the page.

Part 2

  • Use drop-down menu to change your filter from images back to “Everything”. Scroll down to find the category “Web Results”
  • Choose one of those results & click on the link. It will open the web page in a new window or tab.
  • Find a fact about the Sistine Chapel on that site.
  • Return to this doc and type that fact either in your own words on in quotes below the picture you selected.
  • Insert a citation. Make sure your mouse is at the end of the sentence/fact you just wrote. Hoover near the bottom of the snippet/summary from the site you found the fact on and 3 options will appear: Preview, Insert Link, and Cite. Choose “Cite.”

The sistine chapel was originally named the Cappella Magna[1]

Install and use an Add-on

  • Use the Add-ons menu and click  “Get Add-Ons”
  • Find “Thesaurus”  and click  to add it to your Add-ons
  • Click Accept to allow the Add-on to run
  • Highlight the word at the right and find a synonym by running Thesaurus from the Add-ons menu.

quick

Create a Table of Contents Using Styles

  • Highlight the “Level” heading on each page and style it as “Heading 3” using the styles tool
  • [Insert] a [Table of Contents] in the box to the right

Hint- The style tool says “Normal Text” right now.

Embed this page into your blog

  • File > Publish to web
  • Highlight and copy the embed code
  • Embed the code into your blog.
  • Don’t forget to add the code height=660 width=600

 this page with me.  In the message write “I am a Google Docs Ninja!”

Submit your application to be  google Ninja

Share the link of this doc on this Google form to prove you are a Google Docs Ninja!

Congratulations!

You are now a Google Docs Ninja!


[1] "Sistine Chapel - Wikipedia." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_Chapel. Accessed 2 Nov. 2018.