A Google Slides account with a parent

The browser, yes. Emailmu into the course, no.

Google Slides runs in the browser. You download nothing. Behind the browser is a Google account.

That account belongs to a parent, or the school. It does not belong in a notebook as your address that you would write to friends.

If the school gives a pupil account, you follow the teacher. If there is no account, you call a parent. Email and password are a door to Drive and to photos. That door does not belong in chat.

The course is about slides. It is not about creating an identity on the internet.

Example: Jonáš made up a password himself and the next day he could not find the file. Tereza waited for mum, they went to slides.google.com, the file sits on Drive.

A parent sits with you at the first sign-in. Then you click a blank presentation. You do not copy the circle in the top right into a notebook. You do not tell a classmate the password, not even “just for a second”. If Buat akun pops up, do not press it. Call an adult.

Jonáš wanted to “just quickly” set up Gmail, because a friend sent a link. He filled in a name, made up a password, put the fridge number into the phone. The next day he did not know the password. The account hung in the air.

Tereza waited for mum. Mum opened her account, or the school one. Together they typed slides.google.com in the browser and clicked plus.

In the evening Jonáš wrote in chat asking someone to tell him the password. Tereza had the file on mum’s Drive and could go on. The difference was not talent. It was who holds the account.

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If “Buat akun” pops up, do not press it. Call an adult. Setting up an account is a different job from opening a slide.

Who holds the key to Drive

Google Slides saves files on Drive. Drive hangs on an account. An account has an email and a password.

In this course you do not type an email into lesson forms, into chat or onto a slide. A parent or the school decides which account you use.

You learn the address: slides.google.com. Or drive.google.com and then New → Google Slides.

After sign-in look at the circle in the top right. That circle is an adult’s or the school’s account. It is not an address to copy into a notebook.

When you sign out, the file disappears from that browser until the same person signs in again. That is why you do not share the password with a classmate “just for a second”.

On a school computer Workspace sometimes runs. You follow what the teacher says. Without the key the work does not save. With someone else’s key you will not find the file in the morning.

Tereza sits with dad. Dad opens the browser and signs in. Tereza goes to slides.google.com. She sees templates and a big plus. She clicks plus. Untitled appears.

The circle on the right shows dad’s account. Tereza does not copy it onto a slide. The teacher will later get a link with Viewer permission.

Jonáš without dad fills in “new account”, forgets the password and the next day has no file. Sekolah does not have to hunt that account for him. The family should hold the key.

Boredom at sign-in is cheaper than losing a report at night when the password “is only known by a friend from chat”.

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Email, a phone number or a password do not belong on a slide, in a comment or in the file name. The teacher has a school channel, not your private account on the wall.

Four things you will build in this course

The course has four small projects. You do not have to do them all at once. Today you add only this:

🎯 A hobby in 5 slides

Five slides about something you like doing. One sentence about what it is. No paragraphs from your notebook.

Hobby: the file hangs on a parent’s Drive, not in friends’ chat.

📚 A report

Eight slides for school: a start, three proofs, an end. The title on every slide is a sentence, not “Slide 3”.

Report: a school account, if the school gives one. You follow the teacher.

📊 Survey results

A chart from a table (not a screenshot from chat) and under it where the numbers come from.

Survey: the table and the slides under the same adult account.

⚖️ A defence

You say one sentence, show proof, answer “and what if…”. If you do not know, you say I don’t know.

Defence: in the morning you sign in with the same account, not a new one in the corridor.

Open Slides with an adult

Together you go through sign-in. You check that the circle on the right is not an address to copy into a notebook.

Call a parent, or use a school computer where an account already runs. Open the browser. Type slides.google.com in the bar and Enter. If sign-in pops up, an adult fills it in. You do not dictate a password to the class.
After sign-in look at the circle in the top right. Click once. You will see who you are under. Salin nothing from there onto paper “just in case”. Tutup the menu.
On the Slides home page click a blank presentation in the top left. Do not pick a template with a photo now. Wait until the first slide with a title opens.
Click Untitled at the top and name the file Practice-account-andyourname. Enter. In a new browser tab open drive.google.com and check that the file sits on Drive. If you cannot see it, you are in a different account — adult again. In PowerPoint almost the same: the file lives in a folder or on OneDrive that a parent knows.
Do not try signing out just for a laugh when a parent is not there. When you have to leave, close the tab. Slides saves on its own. Do not leave the password on a sticky note at school.

A door, not an address

Check that you can open the tool without publishing the account.

Say out loud who at home holds the Google or Microsoft account. An adult’s name is enough, the address is not.
Find the workshop file on Drive. If you cannot find it, you are in the wrong account.
Write on paper where email does not belong: a slide, chat, a comment under a slide.

Now you 💪

Slides can be opened with an adult, without me inventing a password.
There is no email on the slide or in the file name.
I know the file lives on that account’s Drive, not “somewhere in the browser”.

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Done when: You have Slides open under a parent’s or the school’s account and the file has a name with no email.

What to take from this lesson

An account = a door. An adult or the school holds the door.
The address is slides.google.com. Do not download a program from an advert.
You do not copy the circle on the right into a notebook.
A password is not shared with a classmate for a second.
The file is on Drive, not in chat.
Namas in the examples (Tereza, Jonáš) are made up. Do not put your number, email or photo on a slide.