40-hour curriculum
Google Cloud Computing Foundations
Our free 10 module, 40 hour curriculum is designed to give you the tools to teach critical concepts like infrastructure, application development, data, and machine learning to students with little or no cloud computing experience.
Course overview
The curriculum enables learners to develop technical proficiency in cloud computing and prepare for careers in data analytics, application development, and more.
Course modules
Help students develop cloud computing skills and prepare for careers in the cloud-first world. See the 10 course modules and explore answers to frequently asked questions.
What is included?
This curriculum consists of around 40 hours of content
covering 10 topics with resources including editable
slides and teaching notes, hands-on labs through Google
Cloud Skills Boost, facilitator guides and lesson plans,
and multiple-choice knowledge assessments.
Modules
1. Cloud Basics: Discuss what the cloud is and why it’s
a technology and business game changer 2. User interface: Describe the different ways a user
can interact with Google Cloud 3. Compute: Discover the compute options in Google
Cloud 4. Storage: Implement a variety of structured and
unstructured storage models 5. Managed Services: Discuss the different application
managed service options in the cloud 6. Security: Outline how security in the cloud is
administered in Google Cloud 7. Networks: Demonstrate how to build secure networks
in the cloud 8. Automation: Identify cloud automation and management
tools 9. Big data: Discover a variety of managed big data
services in the cloud 10. Machine learning: Explain what machine learning is,
the terminology used, and its value proposition
Google Cloud provides eligible faculty with
resources including editable Google Slides decks,
detailed slide-by-slide teaching notes, recommended
hands-on practice labs for Google Cloud Skills
Boost, lesson plans with an instructor guides,
end-of-course multiple-choice assessment questions
with an instructor answer key, and project-based
assessments using Google Cloud skill badge quests on
Google Cloud Skills Boost.
The teaching resources are intended only for
teaching courses at regionally accredited or
higher-learning institutions. The content may be
adapted, customized, remixed, and shared for
educational use. Content may not be distributed, or
otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose,
commercial advantage, or private monetary
compensation. If you distribute, publicly perform, display,
transmit, publish, or otherwise make available any
of the resources or any derivative works thereof,
you must attribute the material you use back to the
teaching resources, but not in any way that suggests
Google, any of its affiliates, or any of its
third-party content providers endorse you or your
use of such materials. If you adapt, remix, or
customize the teaching resources please include the
following text on each edited slide: “The
original content was provided by Google LLC and
modified for the purpose of the course, without
input or endorsement from Google LLC.”
You are free to adapt and remix the materials in
the Google Cloud Computing Foundations curriculum.
You can create and add in any materials that will
enable you to teach your course. If you don’t find what you need, you may submit a
request to the Google Cloud Education team
at CloudEduTeaching@google.com.
We will review and consider publishing it with a
future version of the curriculum.
This content has been developed for a general
student audience and may not be directly aligned to
your course syllabus. We encourage you to modify and
customize it to fit the needs of your courses and
curriculum. However, if you see any corrections on the slides
that need to be made, you can
email support@qwiklabs.com.
Preface the subject line with "Google Cloud Teaching
Resources: Google Cloud Foundations." We expect to refresh the content every quarter and
will incorporate changes in order of priority with
any subsequent versions of the course.
To troubleshoot Google Cloud Skills Boost problems,
first check out the
Google Cloud Skills Boost FAQ for
information about troubleshooting topics. To report a problem with the Google Cloud Skills
Boost platform or a specific lab, email
support@qwiklabs.com
(preface the subject line with "Google Cloud
Teaching Resources: Google Cloud Foundations"). Alternatively you can also log onto
cloudskillsboost.google and
use the chat functionality for assistance. Select
Google Cloud EDU Program under the Department
dropdown menu.
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Our Cloud for Education help center contains
answers to frequently asked questions about Google
Cloud Computing Foundations and other programs we
offer.