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

Task

Demonstrate Task Here

Type and Format Text

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

Jessie-Lee Beatson is amazing

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” in the name of this document and add your last name.

Ex: Smith - Google Docs Challenge

Insert A Picture

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

Highlight Text  (Hint: Text background color tool)

Highlight this statement.

Change 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

Task

Demonstrate Task Here

Inserting web links (hyperlinks)

  • Type in the name of your school website or another website 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.

www.thefarm.co.nz

Insert a Table

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

Hi

There

My

Friend

Calculate Word Count

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

Hint: Tools menu

Current Word Count: 1046

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

Use the Formatting Paintbrush  to change the font and color at the same time.

  • Highlight the text you want to emulate
  • Click the Formatting Paintbrush tool
  • Highlight the target text.

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

(Make it look like this)

Level 3 - Red Belt Skills

Task

Demonstrate Task Here

Change Table Properties

  • Add a row to the table.

Hint - Right click inside table

You

are

A

very

important

person

To

my

famm.

Change Table Properties

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

Hint- Right click > Table Properties

Heyy

Heyy

Famm

Famm

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 restaurants? (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

Insert Page break here


Level 4 - Black Belt Skills

Task

Demonstrate Task Here

Check Revision History

  • Refer to this document’s Revision History (File menu)
  • Click the “Show More Detailed Revisions” 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 access 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

=6

Use the Research Tool

Part 1

  • Use Tools > Research to open the Research tool.
  • Search for “Sistine Chapel”
  • Use t
  • he 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 is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope, in Vatican City. Originally known as the Cappella Magna, the chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who restored it between 1477 and 1480.

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 website

  • File -> Publish to web
  • Highlight and copy the embed code
  • Embed the code into your website.

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

Share the link on the website form to prove you are a Google Docs Ninja!

Congratulations! You are now a Google Docs Ninja!