What’s changing
Last year, we empowered educators and students to easily create and collaborate with video by introducing Google Vids to Education Plus customers. Today, we’re excited to expand Vids to all Google Workspace for Education customers.*
Vids can help deepen learning opportunities, up-level instruction, and inspire the next generation of storytellers in a variety of scenarios, for example:
- Educators can support diverse learning styles and help students retain information with instructional videos and deep dives on complex concepts.
- Students can work on video projects and review recorded lessons.
- Education leaders can easily incorporate video in their school newsletters and create internal training videos for staff. Vids is also integrated with Google Workspace for Education tools like Google Classroom, empowering educators to easily assign video projects or post video explainers right to their students.
Who’s impacted
End users
Why you’d use it
Similar to other productivity tools like Docs, Sheets, and Slides, Vids includes an easy-to-use interface and the ability to collaborate in real-time and share videos securely from your browser. You can easily get started with a variety of templates organized by use cases to create a new video. From there, you can add motion with animations, transitions, and photo effects, and customize your video using the Vids royalty free education-friendly stock content library or your own media directly from Google Drive or Google Photos.
Getting started
- Admins:
- Google Vids is a Workspace Core Service for Workspace for Education customers.
- Vids will be ON by default and can be disabled at the organizational level. However, if Google Docs are turned OFF in your domain, Vids access will be unavailable.
- Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Vids on or off for users.
- End users:
- To start, open Google Vids and choose an option to create a new video. You can create a new video or make a copy of an existing video for editing.
- You can use Vids on your computer with the two most recent versions of these browsers:
- Chrome
- Firefox
- Windows only: Microsoft Edge
- Other browsers may work, but you might not be able to use all of the features.
- Dive into Google Vids with our free, self-paced online training course, designed specifically for educators and available now in the Google for Education Learning Center. You can also leverage this one pager to get a quick summary of what you can do with Vids.
- Visit the Help Center to learn more about getting started with Google Vids.
Rollout pace
- Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now.
Availability
Available for Google Workspace:
- Education Fundamentals, Standard and Plus
- Customers with a Gemini Education or Education Premium add-on