1. Day 1 on Google Cloud Platform
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2. Applying for Coupons

3. Apply for coupons at cloud.google.com/edu
YOu should have already

5. Receiving and Redeeming Coupons

6. Faculty will get two emails
One has coupon codes for staff and TAs
One has a URL for students to use

7. This is the staff coupon email
This is the staff coupon . You can use as many of these coupons per account as you wish. You will redeem coupons at console.cloud.google.com/education .

8. This is the student coupon email sent to faculty
This is the student coupon sent to faculty. Coupons must be redeemed in the first 16 weeks of the term but are good for a year after the start of the class.

9. URL here
The student sent to faculty includes a form letter you can send to students with a URL that starts the verification process. Of course you can change this before sending it out. You could even do something as simple as writing the URL on the board or including it in your syllabus (but any student at your student domain can get coupons, so maybe not put it in the syllabus).

10. Student coupon flow Faculty will share the URL with their class.
Students will go to the URL and enter their school address.
Students will receive a verification request.
Once students verify their address, they will be given a coupon.
Since we don't require a credit card, we need a way to verify students are legit, so require them to share a school address and verify it before sending the coupon.

11. Student coupon flow Faculty will share the URL with their class.
Students will go to the URL and enter their school address.
Students will receive a verification request.
Once students verify their address, they will be given a coupon.

12. The domain in the pull down box comes from your application
The domain in the pull down box comes from your application. If you discover there are domains you didn't include, no problem. Send to and we'll update it ASAP.
This is perhaps the most painful part of the process--students need a school address to get a coupon but a Google/Gmail/GaFE address to use the cloud console and redeem the coupon.
Once they submit the coupon, they'll get the next at their school address.
Students can only request a coupon once; if they try a second time with the same address, they'll be given a reminder of their existing coupon code instead of a new code.

13. (I haven't gone through this process in a few weeks; if any of these screens have changed significantly, please let me know!)

14. Student coupon flow Faculty will share the URL with their class.
Students will go to the URL and enter their school address.
Students will receive a verification request.
Once students verify their address, they will be given a coupon.

15. Students can click the link and are sent to the next screen.

17. Student coupon flow Faculty will share the URL with their class.
Students will go to the URL and enter their school address.
Students will receive a verification request.
Once students verify their address, they will be given a coupon.

18. They only need to do this one time!
If students click this link, they're brought to console.cloud.google.com/education and the code is entered automatically.
Be sure students are logged into their own Google/GMail/GAfE account when they do this!
(Yes, we've had a lot of students apply their credits to a roommate/friend's account.)
They only need to do this one time!

20. Some particulars Students can redeem coupons for multiple classes
Students can only request one coupon per class batch
If a faculty member needs to request additional coupons, either for the whole class or for a few students, contact We'll be glad to help you with this.

21. Using GCP
What you do next depends on what type of class you have!

22. Once a student has redeemed a coupon, they'll be transferred into the Cloud Console. A first project will be created for them. There are a number of tutorials built into the console

23. Silly stumbling block
Main Menu
There are two menus available from the console. Once you understand this, things get a lot less strange.
Context Menu

24. Main menu
From the hamburger menu in the top left corner, you can access a menu that brings you to the major components of GCP.

25. Context menu
The context menu changes based on the current major component.

26. When starting out, the search bar can be very useful in indicating where to find items.

27. Built-in tutorials
Click the tricolon at the top right of the console and select "Try an interactive tutorial" to be brought to this list of tutorials.
An advantage of these built-in tutorials is they'll step you through each piece and do necessary project management. It's fine to use the default first project for all of these.

28. Codelabs
I personally learn by doing, so I like to start with codelabs.
We have a full set for many of our products, but since some things do change over time, I think it's best to be sure you're working with current versions.
We used a bunch of cloud codelabs at Supercomputing 16 in mid-November, so these all worked recently.
They can be divided into some major classes, on the following slides.
Boy, did we use them. Over 1400 people did at least one code lab in a 4 day period.

29. Generic tasks you can do on any provider
Creating a Virtual Machine
Creating a Persistent Disk
Getting Started with CloudShell and gcloud
Cloud Shell is one of my most favorite things. There's no need to install anything on any student computer; they can do all their work in the cloud.

30. Codelabs about data and big data
Create a managed SQL database with Cloud SQL
Upload objects to Cloud Storage
Query the Wikipedia dataset with BigQuery
Looking at Campaign Finance with BigQuery
Batch load Wikimedia CSV data into BigQuery
Run a Big Data Text Processing Pipeline with Cloud Dataflow
Provision and Using a Managed Hadoop/Spark Cluster

31. Machine Learning Our pretrained machine learning models
Detect Objects, Faces, and Landmarks in Images with the Cloud Vision API
Entity and Sentiment Analysis with the Natural Language API
Speech to Text Transcription with the Cloud Speech API
There is also a nice introduction to TensorFlow in TensorFlow for Poets, but it probably needs to be updated for CloudML.

32. Codelab caveats Most codelabs have a setup and requirements section.
You usually can skip these and do the codelab in the default first project.

33. Codelab caveats
Many codelabs start services that have charges associated with them.
Don't skip the clean up step!
The cost to run most codelabs is much less than $1.

34. Stopping billing
It's easy to be worried about overspending the first time you use the cloud. I've found it easiest to just disable billing account from any project I don't plan to use for a while. If you are using a lot of storage, you do run the risk of losing data, but otherwise, this is a quick way to stop charges from accruing. As your students get more experienced, they'll learn how to manage resources wisely.

35. Day 2 on GCP
What you do next depends on what type of class you have!

36. Returning to GCP
There is no need to go through the coupon redemption process a second time (and it won't work!).
To return to GCP, go to console.cloud.google.com