NotebookLM is an AI-powered assistant designed to help users understand, organize, and take notes on documents, web pages, and more. It’s essentially a virtual collaborator that can summarize content, answer questions, create study guides, and even generate audio overviews of documents, all while grounding its responses in the provided source material.

As a user, your uploads, queries, and the model’s responses in NotebookLM will not be reviewed by human reviewers, and will not be used to train AI models. 

Note: default access is for the standalone “app” version of NotebookLM.  The premium version is available by special request and payment. 

Google Gemini is Google’s generative AI tool. It can answer questions, generate written content, or create images.

When used with a PCC account, all data and interactions with Google Gemini stay within the PCC virtual environment and are not used outside of PCC to enhance Google’s AI models.  

Note: Default access is for the standalone “app” version of Gemini. The premium version is available for PCC faculty and staff by special request and payment . 

The Google Chrome browser should be installed on all PCC Staff and Faculty computers. If your PCC computer does not have the application, you are able to use our documentation to find out how you can access this software. For additional documentation on Google Drive, please check out our .

As the creator of Google Chrome, Google creates the best help information on the subject. We’ve curated a list of commonly asked questions to help you get answers faster. If the answer you’re looking for isn’t here, take a look at Google’s

Logging into Google Chrome

Signing into Google Chrome will give you access to PCC Chrome Extensions such as AODOC’s Universal File Opener and AODOC’s Smartbar. Currently, PCC has disabled Syncing within Google Chrome.

Important PCC Chrome Extensions

Chrome extensions allow the Chrome browser to interact with PCC resources.  Below is a list of the key Chrome extensions at PCC.

AODocs Extensions

Users who use AODocs should install these extensions for full functionality between AODocs and Google Drive.

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Google Maps is available to all PCC staff and PCC students who have begun the current term and are registered for classes. Before the first day of a student’s registered term, students will only have access to PCC Google Email, not Google Drive or additional Google Applications.

To use Google Maps with your PCC Gmail account, go to this and select Join Group.

To join the Google group manually, navigate to Google Groups from Gmail, select All Groups & Messages, and search for the group name: gs-google-maps-group. Once you have found the group name, click on the group, and then you can join by clicking the Join Group�����ܳٳٴDz�.

*Please note that is not enabled at PCC.

Using Maps

As the creator of Google Maps, Google creates the best documentation. We’ve curated a list of commonly asked questions to help you get answers faster. If the answer you’re looking for isn’t here, look at Google’s .

All staff at PCC use Google Drive for file storage. You can store your files securely and open or edit them from any device using Google Drive.

The Google Drive App should be installed on all PCC Staff and Faculty computers. If your PCC computer does not have the application, you can use our documentation to find out how to access this software. For additional documentation on Google Drive, please check out our .

As the creator of Google Drive, Google creates the best help information on the subject. We’ve curated a list of commonly asked questions to help you get answers faster. If the answer you’re looking for isn’t here, look at Google’s .

Sites let you build public sites, internal project hubs, and more without IT help.

As the creator of Google Sites, Google creates the best helpful information. We’ve curated a list of commonly asked questions to help you get answers faster. If the answer you’re looking for isn’t here, look at Google’s .

Google Keep is available to all PCC staff and PCC students who have begun the current term and are registered for classes. Before the first day of a student’s registered term, students will only have access to PCC Google Email, not Google Drive or additional Google Applications.

Google Groups is a tool to organize teams to work on projects, email using a singular group email address, and organize meetings and events. Email lists within PCC are created through Google Groups. PCC also has automatically generated email lists produced by Banner for students and employees.

As the creator of Google Groups, Google creates the best helpful information. We’ve curated a list of commonly asked questions to help you get answers faster. If the answer you’re looking for isn’t here, look at Google’s .