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Google Vids is now available for all Google Workspace for Education customers

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. 
*Google Workspace for Education customers will receive access to GoogleVids, without AI features. 

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: 
    • 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 

Availability 

Available for Google Workspace: 
  • Education Fundamentals, Standard and Plus 
  • Customers with a Gemini Education or Education Premium add-on 

Resources 

Gemini in Google Classroom is now available to all Google Workspace for Education editions, with added features

What’s changing

Earlier today, we announced numerous updates across Google Workspace for Education that expand feature access and further our efforts to give education customers ​​new and powerful ways of working, teaching and learning with Gemini. 

Prior to today, Gemini in Classroom was only available to customers with a Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on. Starting this week, 18+ users across all Google Workspace for Education editions will now have access to more than 30 AI-powered tools. With the help of Gemini, educators can create content and resources through one central destination in Classroom. This update is accompanied by a new admin setting that controls whether certain users in a domain have access to Gemini in Classroom. 

Now, educators can get help creating first drafts of resources, based on learning objectives, with new features like: 
In addition, educators can now ask Gemini to refine (modify, transform, or supplement) generated content however they want in a chat-like experience for select features. They can also assign content generated with Gemini in Classroom – after reviewing and editing it – directly to assignments in classes with the “Add to class” button. They’ll be able to select a class, which will then create an assignment in the chosen class and attach the Drive file to it. 

Educators will also be able to collaborate with Gemini using starter prompts for the Gemini app that help with common tasks like: 
  • Brainstorming real world examples 
  • Gamifying an activity 
  • Generating differentiation strategies 
  • Drafting an exemplar and non-exemplar 
  • Creating Depth of Knowledge (DOK) questions 
For example, if you select the "Gamifying an activity” card, a pre-set prompt will be loaded into the Gemini app to help get you started. Then, you can collaborate with Gemini to continue iterating before sharing or exporting the content. 

Who’s impacted 

Admins and end users 

Why it’s important 

Educators can now use Gemini in Classroom - free of charge - for more than 30 common educator tasks, helping to give them time back to focus on the art of teaching, from supporting students more deeply to making their instructional ideas a reality. 

Additional details

Gemini in Classroom is only available in English for education users over the age of 18. 

Getting started 

Rollout pace 

Availability 

These updates impact: 
  • Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus
  • Education customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on* 
*Starting September 2025, the Gemini Education add-ons will be consolidated into a single add-on referred to as Google AI Pro for Education.

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The Gemini app is now available to all education users

What’s changing

We are expanding support for the Gemini app for Google Workspace for Education users of all ages:

The Gemini app is covered under the Google Workspace for Education Terms of Service for all Workspace for Education users. Those terms include enterprise-grade data protections, so your data is not reviewed by anyone or otherwise used to train AI models. Gemini also supports compliance with many industry regulations like FERPA, COPPA, FedRamp, and HIPAA.

Who’s impacted

Admins and end users

Why it’s important

AI can be a valuable tool for learning and creativity, which is why we are making Gemini available to all Google Workspace for Education users. Gemini incorporates LearnLM, our family of models fine-tuned for learning and built with experts in education, making it the world’s leading model for learning. 

All of your Google Workspace for Education users will be able to use to the Gemini app (gemini.google.com and the mobile app) to do things like: 

  • Ask questions and receive in-the-moment support 
  • Create lesson plans and extra study materials
  • Get feedback on their work  and check their understanding
  • Practice using technology that will prepare them for an AI-driven future 
  • Brainstorm new ideas

A distinct experience for younger learners (students under 18): 

  • Stricter content policies that prevent potentially inappropriate or harmful responses. For more information, check out The Keyword, Gemini safety center, and policy guidelines for the Gemini app.
  • A youth onboarding experience with AI literacy resources – endorsed by ConnectSafely and Family Online Safety Institute, to help younger students use AI responsibly
  • The first time a user asks a fact-based question a double-check response feature runs automatically powered by Google Search.  In subsequent searches, a user can validate an answer by clicking Double-check response.

Additional details

The Google Workspace Service Specific Terms, which include terms relevant to the Gemini app, have been updated to reflect the change regarding age restrictions. Google will process your users’ data as described in the Generative AI Workspace privacy hub. 

Getting started

Availability

  • This update impacts Google Workspace Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus customers

Resources

Gemini app reporting now available for all Google Workspace for Education customers

What’s changing

Earlier this year, we introduced Google Vault support for the Gemini app on web and mobile for select Google Workspace editions. Beginning today, this functionality is available for Google Workspace Education Fundamentals customers as well.

Admins can use Vault for eDiscovery tasks to search Gemini app conversations and create an export of your search results. Specifically, the following actions can be taken around Gemini app data:

  • Search prompts and responses with a number of filters, such as user and date, to quickly refine your search. These searches can be across groups of users or by Organizational Units (OUs) up to 5000 in size.
  • Export conversations in an XML format for the above searches via the UI or API.

For more information, please refer to our original announcement. In addition, Google Workspace Admins can view aggregate reports of Gemini usage in their domain using Admin Console. 

Additional details

  • Workspace for Education Admins can also view aggregate usage reports of the Gemini app through Admin Console under Generative AI > Gemini Reports.
  • This update is not applicable for Gemini for Google Workspace features (ex. Help me write in Gmail), as no prompts or responses are retained for those interactions. Visit our Privacy Hub for more information on how we’re protecting your Google Workspace data in the era of generative AI.

Getting started


Rollout pace

Availability

  • This update impacts all Google Workspace for Education editions
  • This feature is already available for
    • Business Plus
    • Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus
    • Education Standard and Education Plus 
    • Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus
    • Customers with the Vault add-on license

Resources


NotebookLM and the Gemini app are now Core Services with enterprise-grade data protection for all education customers

What’s changing 

Last year, we launched enterprise-grade data protection in the Gemini app for Education Standard and Education Plus customers. As a core service with enterprise-grade data protection, the Gemini app: 
Today, we’re expanding these protections to help more education institutions provide AI tools to their communities with the confidence that their data is private, safe and secure through the following updates: 
NotebookLM and the Gemini app are now Core Services with enterprise-grade data protection for all education customers

Who’s impacted 

Why you’d use it 

Gemini is an AI assistant for education that allows educators to chat with the Gemini app to brainstorm ideas, answer questions quickly, summarize content and more. In addition, students can use the Gemini app to learn more confidently with in-the-moment assistance, practice materials, and real-time feedback. 

NotebookLM is an AI-powered thinking partner that helps you understand anything. It accelerates learning and knowledge sharing, with AI grounded on the documents that matters most to you. Educators and students 18+ can add their lesson plans, education standards, lecture notes and/or course readings to get real-time summaries, guided lesson plans, discussion questions, quizzes and more. They can also generate audio overviews to take learning on the go and make content more accessible, digestible and engaging. 

With NotebookLM Plus, you can allow users to chat with your Notebooks without access to see or edit sources, customize the style and tone of notebook responses, create shared notebooks with usage analytics, and you get 5x more Audio Overviews, queries, notebooks, and sources per notebook. 

Additional details 

Workspace for Education users already had added data protection in the Gemini app and NotebookLM, meaning their data is not human reviewed or used to train AI models. These enterprise-grade data protections build on that to give school administrators peace of mind. 

The Gemini app is available in more than 40 languages and over 230 countries and territories. Teen users get a unique Gemini app experience, which we created after consulting with child development and learning science experts. This included conducting learning focused red teaming, an industry standard testing process to find vulnerabilities in generative AI, and testing with youth advisory panels to ensure we’re bringing this technology to students responsibly. 

NotebookLM and NotebookLM Plus are available in 180+ regions where Gemini API is available and currently supports 35+ languages. For Audio Overviews, while you can upload sources from all supported languages, the spoken audio is currently only available in English. Users can only upload sources from Workspace that they have permission to access. Furthermore, they can control who has access to their notebooks and set more granular permissions within each. Notebooks can only be shared within your organization. 

Getting started 

  • Admins: 
    • New customers: Access to the Gemini app and NotebookLM is OFF by default for Primary and Secondary (K12) customers, and ON by default for Higher Education customers. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning the Gemini app on or off for users.
    • Existing customers: Your existing settings for the Gemini app and NotebookLM (on or off) will not change as part of this launch. Learn more about the available admin controls and our commitment to you in the Privacy Hub. 
  • End users: 

Rollout pace 

Availability 

This update impacts: 
  • Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus
  • Customers with a Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 

Resources

Consent re-confirmation for under 18 users accessing Additional Services will soon be required

What’s changing

When a Google Workspace for Education admin chooses to enable Additional Services for students under the age of 18 to use, they acknowledge that they may be required to collect parental or guardian consent. This includes access to services like YouTube, Google Translate, Google Photos, Google Books, Google Earth and more.

In September 2024, we communicated that we now require admins who have Additional Services enabled for users under the age of 18 to re-review them on an annual basis. Admins are always in control of which services their users have access to, and this gives admins an opportunity to ensure the right users have access to the right services.

  • If admins do not want to provide access to Additional Services for their under 18 users, they can turn them off for those users. 
  • If admins want to keep Additional services enabled for under 18 users, they need to reconfirm parental consent in the admin console.  
  • If admins do not take action, under 18 users who previously had access to Additional Services will lose access in the coming weeks. Admins can re-enable access to Additional Services at any time. 

How admins can take action
Admins were first provided notice of this re-confirmation requirement in September 2024, which indicated a 6 months notice to complete the re-review process before the March 2025 rollout. The banner in the admin console has turned red to alert admins that action is required. While the rollout begins in March, it might take several weeks before some users in your organization are impacted.

You can easily view which applications require consent reconfirmation from Admin console > Apps > Additional Google services. You can re-confirm consent by checking the box next to the app, hovering over the app, or using the three-dot overflow menu. 

Experience for impacted end users
If users lose access to a specific service they’ll be notified “Your Google Workspace for Education account is designated as under 18 and your organization’s admin has not granted you access to this Additional Service. To regain access, inform your admin that you need this service to be enabled.“ 



Who’s impacted

Admins and end users under the age of 18


Why it’s important

Admins are in control of which services their users have access to, and to do so in alignment with both our terms of service and local laws and regulations that determine what services are appropriate for users under 18. Since admins manage which services their students have access to, only they can enable or disable access for their under 18 users. 


This is a guide to support admins with collecting consent from parents, which includes this template for communicating with parents and guardians around collecting consent. 

Additional details

The requirement to review and re-confirm access to Additional Products is an annual requirement customers must complete for their under 18 users, subject to their Google Workspace for Education Terms of Service. 

Getting started


Rollout pace


Availability

This change impacts Google Workspace:
  • Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus

Resources




Google Meet Learning Tools Interoperability™ update: control when meeting recordings are shared with a new toggle

What’s changing 

Instructors using Meet LTI™ to create and host meetings can control how meeting recordings are shared. Previously, everyone in the meeting could access the recording after the meeting. Now, instructors can control when recordings are shared with students.

From Meet LTI, select the “Meet artifacts” tab to toggle the “Share recordings with students” settings




We plan to introduce similar controls for other meeting artifacts, like Meeting transcripts, in the future. We’ll share more here on the Workspace Updates blog when more controls become available. 


Getting started


Rollout pace



Availability

  • Available for Google Workspace Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus, and the Teaching & Learning add-on

Resources


Introducing Gemini Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI™)

What’s changing

We’re pleased to introduce Gemini LTI™, an AI-powered assistant that can integrate into third party Learning Management Systems (LMS). Gemini LTI™ helps enhance the educational experience for both educators and students by providing AI-driven tools and features powered by Gemini within their LMS environment. To start, Gemini LTI™ integrates with Canvas by Instructure and Powerschool Schoology Learning. 





Who’s impacted

Admins and end users


Why you’d use it

Google is committed to making AI helpful for everyone, in the classroom and beyond. Bringing Gemini into LMS tools helps educators boost their creativity and productivity to create more dynamic and engaging learning experiences for their students. Specifically, educators can use the AI tools to:

  • Outline a lesson plan, including learning objectives.
  • Generate a quiz and export it to Google Forms.
  • Create a hook to spark curiosity and engage your students.

Students can further solidify what they’re learning in the classroom or explore new topics alongside an AI:
  • In-the-moment assistance: get unstuck and keep learning going by get clarification in real time. 
  • Learning coach: get a step-by-step learning plan built around specific learning goals.
  • Brainstorming partner: generate fresh ideas for a research paper, additional authors to read, and more.
  • Feedback on writing: get suggestions on how to strengthen your arguments and hone your ideas
  • Mock interviews: prepare for an upcoming internship or extra curricular interview.


Additional details

Gemini LTI™ is part of Google Workspace LTI, our suite of LTI™ tools, including Assignments LTI™, Google Drive LTI™, and Google Meet LTI™. Visit our Help Center to learn more about Workspace LTI™. 


Getting started

Educators can now request access to third-party apps for their students

What’s changing

We’re introducing a new workflow that allows educators to request access to unconfigured third-party apps on behalf of their students.

Admins can allow educators and users who are over 18 years of age to request access to apps for themselves or on behalf of others (proxy requests). For example, admins may create a group of trusted users who are responsible for vetting third party apps and allow them to make proxy requests on behalf of students.




Educators can view a list of apps they have recently accessed with their Google Workspace account and request access for their students.




Admins can review and take action on these requests in the Admin console by going to Security > API Controls > App Access Control. Requests will be denoted with a “Proxy”  label when the request is made on behalf of another user. 




Once admins have configured access, they can opt to notify users and/or users who made proxy requests via email about the outcome of their request.




Who’s impacted

Admins and end users

Why it’s important

Administrators can now allow a group of trusted users to vet and request third party app access on behalf of other users. This allows admins to better control who requests access and create a more streamlined process for app approvals.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available for Google Workspace Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus, and the Teaching & Learning Upgrade

Resources


Expanding access to the Gemini app for teen students in education

What’s changing

Google Workspace for Education admins can now turn on the Gemini app with added data protection as an additional service for their teen users (ages 13+ or the applicable age in your country) in the following languages and countries. With added data protection, chats are not reviewed by human reviewers or otherwise used to improve AI models. The Gemini app will be a core service in the coming weeks for Education Standard and Plus users, including teens, 


We created this Gemini experience for teens after consulting with child development and learning science experts - including conducting learning focused red teaming, an industry standard testing process to find vulnerabilities in generative AI - and testing with youth advisory panels to ensure we’re bringing this technology to students responsibly.

Gemini can help teen students learn responsibly and confidently in an AI-first future.



Who’s impacted

Admins and end users


Why it’s important

Google is committed to making AI helpful for everyone, in the classroom and beyond. We want to both prepare teens with the skills and tools they need to thrive in the future where GenAI exists and help them learn how this technology can be used to unlock creativity and facilitate learning. Expanding access to the Gemini app to younger students provides guided support to help them learn more confidently with in-the-moment assistance, practice materials, and real-time feedback. 


Additional details

Upon accessing the Gemini app for the first time, teens will be guided through an AI Literacy video, endorsed by ConnectSafely and Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI)--with tips on how to use generative AI responsibly. And according to Common Sense Media, the Gemini teen experience is considered “low risk” and is designated as “designed for kids”.

“Google's Gemini, which is currently the only major platform to create a specific experience for teens, includes additional CSAM (child sexual abuse material) safeguards, content policies, and in-product experiences that help teens understand the limitations of generative AI." - Common Sense Media


Getting started


Rollout pace

  • Available now.

Availability

  • Available for Google Workspace Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus and the Teaching & Learning Upgrade

Resources