2 New updatesUnless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both&nb...

What’s changing Earlier this year, we brought Gemini for Google Workspace to education communities with two new paid add-ons. At that time, we announced that educators and students 18 years and older who did not have a Gemini Education license wou...

What’s changing At Google I/O 2024, we pre-announced Gems, custom AI experts that you can build across a variety of  topics. In a few easy steps, you can describe what you want your Gem to do and how you’d like it to respond — Gems will help ...

What’s changingCurrently, Google Meet sends an email for each type of meeting artifact initiated in a meeting, including meeting recordings, meeting transcripts, Gemini notes with “take notes for me,” live streams and more. Going forward, you’ll receiv...

What’s changingToday, we’re pleased to announce that “take notes for me” will begin rolling out to Google Meet for select Google Workspace customers. “Take notes for me” is an AI-powered feature in Google Meet that automatically takes notes, allowing y...

What’s changing Beginning today, Google Workspace users with a Gemini Business, Enterprise, Education or Education Premium license can now upload a variety of files from Google Drive or locally from your device into Gemini (gemini.google.com):&nbs...

What’s changingLast year, we announced that we’re updating the storage model in Business Starter from per-user storage to pooled storage. Today, we’re excited to share that organizations with Business Starter will officially have access to shared drive...

Update[September 12, 2024]: We have updated the rollout timelines for this feature. See the Rollout section below for more details.What’s changing Have you ever lost your video screen after switching to another tab? Google Meet’s picture-in-p...

What’s changing Following the announcement at Google Cloud Next 2024, we’re excited to introduce Google Chat integrations with IFTTT and UKG Flow. The IFTTT integration enables users to automate Chat with 1,000+ of today's most popular apps. ...

1 New updateUnless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both&nbs...

What’s changing We’re giving meeting hosts and co-hosts the ability to control the use of add-ons during meetings* with a new setting. We hope this new setting helps keep meetings on task and productive by allowing hosts to control access to add-o...

What’s changing Last year, we introduced the ability to pull rich data from apps directly into Google Docs with third-party smart chips. Today, we’re taking this a step further by enabling third-party partners, such as Lucidspark, Lucidchart, and ...

What’s changingFor select Google Workspace editions*, we’re pleased to announce that the Google Meet ultra-low latency viewing experience for live streamed meetings will now support up to 100,000 viewers. This gives organizations the flexibility to rea...

What’s changing Building upon our popular Help me write feature in Gmail and the recent launch of the summarization feature in the Gmail mobile app, we’re excited to introduce two new Gemini in Gmail updates to help you draft emails even faster:&n...

What’s changing We’re excited to introduce a new feature in Google Classroom that enables teachers to create groups of students to make assigning differentiated content easier. This update will allow them to quickly assign classwork to pre-defined...

What’s changingEarlier this year, we announced multi-party approvals for sensitive actions taken in the admin console, specifically requiring one admin to approve actions taken by another. At launch, these protections applied to several settings, inclu...

2 New updatesUnless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both&nb...

What’s changing In the era of generative AI, building helpful, secure products that give users choice and control over their data remains Google’s core principle. When commercial customers adopt Gemini for Google Workspace they get the same robust...

What’s changing As we continue to make improvements for managing Meet Hardware fleets, we’re pleased to announce eighteen additional filters in the Admin console, which include:
Alert silence expiration timeBoot modeCameraChrome versionContent ca...

What’s changingWe're introducing a new feature that enables users to more easily view and structure their Google Form data in Sheets. Starting today, when a user initiates the creation of a new sheet using their Forms data, Sheets will automatical...

Update[August 20, 2024] We have paused rollout for this feature while we evaluate performance and quality. We will provide an update once rollout resumes.What’s changingFollowing the introduction of tables in Google Sheets and the recently announc...

What’s changing We're introducing a new setting that enables education admins to restrict which users can create and manage members in Google Chat conversations. This can be useful for admins who want to prevent groups of students from initia...

What’s changing We’re pleased to announce a new set of features to help you conduct deeper analysis and more flexible issue detection within your Google Meet hardware fleet: First, Meet hardware log events are now captured in the security inv...

What’s changingPreviously, the interoperability settings that allow Calendar users to see availability of colleagues using Outlook and vice-versa were split between two separate locations: in the Admin console and from https://calendar.google.com/Excha...

3 New updatesUnless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both&nb...

What’s changing “Take notes for me,” an AI-powered feature in Google Meet that automatically takes notes during your meetings, will be rolling out soon. Prior to end user availability, admins can now configure whether their users can use this Goog...

What’s changingWe’re introducing a new feature that surfaces richer student engagement data on assignments with Google Drive attachments in Google Classroom. With this update, teachers will have easily accessible visibility into whether students h...

What’s changing When your users sign in to third-party apps using the "Sign in with Google" option (single sign-on) or use OAuth to share their data with those apps, you can control what access those apps have to your organization’s Google data us...

3 New updatesUnless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both&nb...

What’s changing In 2023, we introduced the ability for Google Classroom teachers to export grading periods to their Student Information System (SIS) gradebook. This helps education teams simplify student data management and complete administrative...

What’s changingClassroom admins can now centrally set default grading settings for teachers in their district using the Admin console. When a teacher creates a new class in Classroom, these default settings are automatically populated for the class.&nb...

What's changingControlling access to sensitive content stored in Google Drive is a critical component for any company's security posture. One way admins can do this is with data loss prevention (DLP) rules that enable Information Rights Management (IRM...

What’s changingWe’re introducing a feature that will allow admins to restrict which URLs Apps Scripts and Sheets can source external content from. More specifically, admins can now monitor which URLs are being accessed by referencing new logs that we’r...

What’s changingYou can now interact with the Gemini side panel while viewing PDFs. This new viewing experience works with all kinds of PDFs, such as: Scanned PDFs: Pictures of paper documents turned into PDFs. Native PDFs: PDFs created on a c...

What’s changingMany users follow threads within spaces in Google Chat to ensure they don’t miss any updates. To build upon this experience and help you keep track of important discussions occurring in threads, we’re introducing the ability to follow an...

1 New updateUnless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both&nbs...

What’s changingWe’re expanding the availability of AI Classification in Google Drive to Google Workspace for Education customers with the Gemini Education Premium add-on. Even though data security is paramount in today’s digital world, organizatio...

What’s changingWe’re introducing several changes to make labels more discoverable and flexible for organizations:1. Label Manager’s New Location: The Label Manager interface is moving from a standalone UI into the Workspace Admin console. Prior to this...

What’s changing Today, we’re excited to announce that when you upload a video to Google Drive, captions for the video can be automatically generated. These captions are automatically generated using speech recognition technology to transcribe the ...

What’s changingWe recently announced that our Learning Interoperability Tools, including Assignments LTI™, Google Drive LTI™, and Meet LTI™ will be consolidated under a new brand: Google Workspace LTI™.In order to bring the collaborative power of Goog...

What’s changingTo help improve remote and hybrid learning, we’re introducing Google Meet LTI™ for Canvas by Instructure and PowerSchool Schoology Learning. This builds on the existing Google Workspace Learning Interoperability Tools including Assignmen...

What’s changingAdmins can create classification labels for users to apply to files in Google Drive. These classification labels are useful for many common workplace scenarios, including records management, classification, structured finding, reporting,...

What’s changingWe’re continually investing in data protection capabilities for Google Forms. We’ve already enabled data loss prevention (DLP) for Google Drive policies that apply to files submitted in external Forms, including Forms from external organ...

What’s changing In September 2023, we introduced ultra-low latency livestreaming and since then we’ve introduced several improvements for the overall experience. Today, we’re excited to introduce the latest enhancement for ultra-low latency live s...

What’s changing Google Drive inventory reporting is now available in open beta, providing admins with enhanced visibility into the state of their data assets. By exporting this data into BigQuery, admins can gain a holistic view of how their data ...

2 New updatesUnless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both&nb...

What’s changing Currently, a teacher or school administrator can invite a guardian, typically a parent, to receive email summaries about their student’s work in class. These email summaries include a rundown of missing work, upcoming work and clas...

What’s changing Currently, when there are security policies applied to documents, spreadsheets, presentations or files, users are given no central explanation of which actions, like downloading, making a copy, or external sharing are restricted.&n...

What’s changingWe're updating the way Google Meet hardware devices are re-enrolled to provide a more intuitive experience for administrators.Previously, if a device was re-enrolled without first being deprovisioned, the Admin console would reuse its ex...

What’s changingIn 2022, we introduced expanded support for composing with Markdown in Google Docs on web. Today, we’re introducing highly-requested features that enhance Docs' interoperability with other Markdown supporting tools. These include the abi...

What’s changing We’re pleased to announce Google Workspace extensions for Gmail, Google Drive and Google Docs are available for Gemini (gemini.google.com). When enabled, Gemini will be able to cross reference these apps as data sources to better i...

What’s changingWe recently introduced the ability to import data, such as student rosters, co-teachers and grading categories, from your Student Information System (SIS) to Google Classroom. In the coming weeks, we will be introducing a new featur...

What’s changingGoogle Classroom teachers can now export and import select information via the new integration with PowerSchool SIS, a third-party student information system (SIS) that provides innovative K-12 software and cloud-based solutions to impr...

2 New updatesUnless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both&nb...

What’s changing We’re introducing a new OAuth scope for the Drive API: drive.meet.readonly. The new scope grants app access to read and download files from a user’s drive that were created or edited by Google Meet — this includes meeting transcrip...

What’s changing We recently announced several updates related to framing options on Google Hardware devices. This included the ability for admins to configure the default camera framing option for their hardware devices. After pausing rollout to o...

What’s changing We’re expanding the interoperability between Google Meet and Zoom to include the ability to present content via a wired HDMI connection. This functionality will allow you: Present HDMI content into your Zoom Meetings from Goog...