Getting 2 Google Educator Certifications in One Day — Essential Skills Checklist

How I prepared for and passed both Google Educator Level 1 and Level 2 certifications in a single day, after just two days of prep. Includes study resources and a hands-on skills checklist to help you get ready.

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About Google Educator Certifications

I only found out Google had an Educator certification four days before I took the exam XD
As the name suggests, these certifications are designed from an educator’s perspective — verifying that teachers can confidently use Google for Education tools in a professional and practical context.

Levels and Exam Fees

There are two core levels:

The certifications do cost money and need to be renewed every three years (which makes sense, since Google’s products keep evolving). Worth thinking about whether it’s the right fit for your goals.

Beyond these two, there are also assessments like the GFE Trainer Skill Assessment — I’m still looking into those and will share updates when I know more.

Level 1 vs. Level 2

If you’re wondering how different they really are… honestly, the gap isn’t huge. But if I had to describe it: Level 1 tests your basic conceptual understanding of the tools; Level 2 focuses more on applying them flexibly.

If you use Google products every day like I do, you can probably skim the practice questions and just go take the exam.
If you’re less familiar with the tools, use the checklist in this post — once you can confidently tick off everything, you’re probably ready :)

Building Your Knowledge Base

Google Educator certifications require fluency with Google for Education tools. Here are the main ways to prepare:

Google’s Official Training Courses

For both Level 1 and Level 2, Google provides well-organized official training courses. If you’re unfamiliar with certain tools, follow along at your own pace — or if you’re already comfortable with most things, just skip to the practice questions at the end.
I personally find their multiple-choice questions a bit unpleasant (the questions are oddly worded and the answer explanations aren’t great XD), and completing the full course doesn’t actually boost your exam score. That said, drilling the practice questions does help.

How long this takes depends on your familiarity with the tools. If you use Google tools daily, each unit might only take 5–10 minutes to skim through and note any unfamiliar questions. If you’re new to many of the tools, working through everything step by step takes more time — but building a solid foundation is always worth it in the long run.

Other Helpful Resources

I didn’t use much supplementary material beyond a quick search for exam formats and experience writeups, but here are some resources that look genuinely useful:

Building Your Knowledge Foundation

The official materials and supplementary resources above cover the conceptual side in plenty of detail — I won’t repeat what they do well (and it’s not my strongest area anyway XD).
My recommendation: work through the official content once, write down anything you’re uncertain about, and that’s your study list. The rest of this post focuses on hands-on skills.

Google Educator Essential Skills Checklist

One thing that becomes clear from the Educator course is how much emphasis is placed on problem-solving ability. If you’re going to teach students to use technology to solve problems, you as the teacher need to be able to do the same — flexibly and confidently.

My approach to building practical skills:

First master the fundamentals; then focus on integration and flexible application.

Fundamentals = the core, essential function of each tool
Integration and flexible application = how the tools work together

Below is my checklist of skills for each tool. Since it’s honestly hard to draw a clean line between Level 1 and Level 2, I’ve combined them. Go through these before your exam — can you do all of them?

Google Chrome | Google Search

Gmail

Google Calendar

Google Drive

Google Docs

Google Forms

Google Sheets

Google Slides

Google Sites

Google Classroom

Google Maps

Google Meet

YouTube

Blogger

My Takeaways

The skills above cover the core functionality of each tool, along with some basic integration scenarios (Forms + Sheets, Calendar + Meet, etc.). I hope they’re useful as a prep checklist.

Once you’re comfortable with all the fundamentals, you really shouldn’t run into too many surprises on the exam.
The main difference I noticed between Level 1 and Level 2 is that Level 1 gives you more step-by-step guidance in the tasks, while Level 2 drops most of that scaffolding — so being more fluent with the tools before you sit Level 2 is definitely worth it.

There are also a few more specialized features to be aware of, like Tour Builder and Google Earth — those are worth exploring on your own when you have time!

If you have questions or want to add anything, feel free to leave a comment. I hope this helps :D

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