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Gemini Notebook, in three levels

Formerly NotebookLM — Google renamed it; the course names both.

Each level ends with something you built and a record that links to it. You can stop after any one of them, and what you earned still stands on its own.

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Gemini Notebook Foundations

A research briefing pack made from eight supplied documents — titled notes, a study guide, a data table, a slide deck and an audio briefing — shared by a link.

6 sessions·About 10 hours

Earns: a Foundations completion record, linking the briefing pack you built on your own.

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In development

Gemini Notebook Practitioner

A notebook built from live sources — web pages, a video, Google Drive — with Deep Research, the Video Overview and Infographic, the table exported to Sheets, and a week’s work planned against the limits.

Earns: a Practitioner completion record.

In developmentNeeds a paid plan

Gemini Notebook Professional

Gemini Notebook with a Workspace account: notebooks shared with editors, code execution, and the features Google added in July 2026.

Needs a Google Workspace or Google AI plan — Foundations needs only a Google account

Earns: a Professional completion record.

Finish all three

Completing all three levels earns the Alongrail Certificate in Gemini Notebook: three levels, three briefing packs, each one built on your own. Like every record, it’s private until you publish it.

What the three levels add up to

This is a sample, so you can see exactly what completing the track earns.

Sample

Alongrail Certificate in Gemini Notebook

Name
Sample learner
Awarded
Sample date

The three levels, and the project each one links

Gemini Notebook FoundationsProject link
Gemini Notebook PractitionerProject link
Gemini Notebook ProfessionalProject link

Awarded for three completed levels and the three projects linked above.

Each level also earns its own record as you finish it. The certificate comes when all three are complete — Practitioner and Professional are in development.

The record is a description of work you did, not a claim about you. The certificate is the same, three times over. It’s issued the moment your last level record exists, private until you publish it, and yours to unpublish.