Google Cloud Platform offers a variety of Learning Resources available for users of GCP. This document highlights some of those resources currently available for UMD researchers, faculty, staff and students.
To find out all the different options offered to enhance your knowledge of Google visit Google Cloud Training. Google has available numerous documentation, webinars and tutorials for google cloud platform users. Visit Google Cloud Documentation for more information.
Google Cloud periodically makes available free instructor-led classes which cover various foundational GCP training subjects.
Below is a list of the upcoming classes. Please note that registration for these classes is first-come, first-served, and they can often fill up quickly.
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Date |
Course |
Class type |
Time zone |
How to register |
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Sep 17, 2021 |
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure |
Virtual |
EDT |
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Sep 27, 2021 |
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure |
Virtual |
MT |
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Nov 5, 2021 |
Google Cloud Platform Big Data & Machine Learning Fundamentals |
Virtual |
PDT |
Below are some of the exclusive Google Cloud training offerings from Google Training Partners. Google offers special discounts on Qwiklabs, Pluralsight, and Coursera. To claim these those offers, simply fill out the form presented on the Google Cloud Training Offerings link
Free Skills Badge Challenges provide an opportunity for anyone to use Qwiklabs and gain hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform.
Skills Badge Challenge: Registration
The Foundations Curriculum is specifically free to Higher Education customers. It is intended to provide assets for faculty to include in their classes, but they can use it for themselves and their student research teams. This leverages Qwiklabs and includes slides with lecture notes, Instructor Guides, Lesson Plans, and Assessment Questions.
Google Cloud Computing Foundations Curriculum
The Google Cloud Career Readiness Program is intended to be a faculty-coached 16-week program for students resulting in industry-recognized Google credentials. There are two tracks available: Data Analytics and Associate Cloud Engineer.
Google Cloud Career Readiness Program
A Cloud Guru formally known as Linux Academy offers an extensive catalog of Google Cloud Platform courses. A Cloud Guru offers both Individual and Business subscriptions.
Google offers Training Credits for Faculty, Students, Staff and Researchers on their Google for Education link. By submitting an application, You have the opportunity for free online courses from Coursera and self-paced labs from Qwiklabs. Please note that these credits expire one year after they are issued.
Google codelabs provide guided, tutorial, hands-on coding experiences. Most codelabs will step you through the process of building a small application, or adding a new feature to an existing application. They cover a wide range of topics such as Android Wear, Google Compute Engine, Project Tango, and Google APIs on iOS. For more information go to Google Codelab.
UMD students, faculty, and staff have free access to LinkedIn Learning, formerly known as Lynda.com, an online learning service that can help professionals learn software, design, and business skills to achieve their personal and professional goals. Click the link for more GCP offered training.
For groups of 10-20, the Research Computing team may be able to arrange special no-cost training in coordination with Google. Please contact it-research-consult@umd.edu if you are interested.