{"id":30607,"date":"2016-05-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-offers-tech-tips-google-drive-course-for-business-professionals\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T10:22:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:22:36","slug":"tarleton-offers-tech-tips-google-drive-course-for-business-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-offers-tech-tips-google-drive-course-for-business-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton offers Tech Tips, Google Drive course for business professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br \/>Monday, May 23, 2016<\/p>\n<p>STEPHENVILLE, Texas&mdash;Become tech savvy this summer with a two-session class at Tarleton State University designed to help business professionals improve efficiency and productivity using Google Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Made possible through the university&rsquo;s Center for Academic Outreach and Engagement, the Tech Tips course is set from 5 to 9 p.m. June 13 and 1 to 5 p.m. June 20 in Room 206 of the College of Business Administration on the Stephenville campus. Cost is $50, and registration is due by June 1.<\/p>\n<p>Today, more than 50 percent of jobs require some technical skill, and the Tech Tips course covers those associated with using keyboard shortcuts and importing and exporting data with Google Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Participants learn Drive file organization and management, and the Document, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Form, and Drawing applications while considering a variety of business uses. Tips, tricks and additional functionality through Chrome apps and extensions are explored.<\/p>\n<p>Participants will create relevant documents, sheets, slides, forms and drawings in class.<\/p>\n<p>To register and submit online payment for the Tech Tips course, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/continuinged\">www.tarleton.edu\/continuinged<\/a>. For more information, contact Tarleton&rsquo;s Center for Academic Outreach &amp; Engagement at 254-968-9559 or email Dr. Denae Dorris at <a href=\"mailto:dorris@tarleton.edu\">dorris@tarleton.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tarleton, a member of The Texas A&amp;M University System, provides a student-focused, value-driven educational experience marked by academic innovation and exemplary service, and dedicated to transforming students into tomorrow&rsquo;s professional leaders. With campuses in Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Midlothian and online, Tarleton engages with its communities to provide real-world learning experiences and to address societal needs while maintaining its core values of integrity, leadership, tradition, civility, excellence and service.<\/p>\n<p>#<\/p>\n<p>Contact: Dr. Denae Dorris &ndash; Director, Center for Academic Outreach &amp; Engagement<br \/>254-968-1990<br \/><a href=\"mailto:dorris@tarleton.edu\">dorris@tarleton.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Become tech savvy this summer with a two-session class at Tarleton State University designed to help business professionals improve efficiency and productivity using Google Drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423,425],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-research","category-campus-community"],"acf":{"image":null},"author_meta":{"display_name":"keegan","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/keegan-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-2211-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/academics-research\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/campus-community\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Campus &amp; Community<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Campus &amp; Community<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 10 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on May 23, 2016","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on May 23, 2016 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025 10:22 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Laptop with digital tools and icons floating above it.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54416,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30607\/revisions\/54416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}