- Education Fundamentals - A free foundational suite of secure and easy-to-use tools such as Google Docs, Classroom, Meet, Gmail, Forms, Chat and more.
- Education Standard - A paid edition that builds on the Fundamentals tier with advanced security and analytics tools.
- Education Plus - A paid edition that includes everything in Fundamentals and Standard, but with even more tools to empower users and enrich and personalize learning.
🧰 General Resources
To see the full details on every feature difference between the Fundamental and Plus tiers of Google Workspace for Education, see these resources which I referenced to create this guide:
Compare Google Workspace editions - Resource link
Google Education Plus versus Fundamentals - Resource link
Below are some highlights of features that come with the Plus tier of Google Workspace for Education.
🍎 Google Classroom
Student Groups - Help page
Teachers can differentiate work for students by adding students into predetermined groups for the assignment of work.
Once created, work can be assigned to groups of students instead of needing to assign work to students one by one.
Record audio, video, and screencasts - Resource link
Google Classroom has a built-in option to record their audio, video, and screens. Uses for this can include:
Deliver engaging announcements: Capture student attention right from the class stream. Replace static text updates with personal video messages or audio reminders to keep the class connected and informed.
Bring lessons to life: Engage students and clarify instructions by recording audio, video, or screen captures directly within the assignment workflow.
Personalize feedback: Record audio or video directly in Classroom private comments when sharing feedback. Connect with students authentically and support diverse learning needs through accessible media.
Reimagine assessments: Give students flexible ways to demonstrate understanding and ask for help. With integrated recording tools, learners can submit verbal or visual messages in context to clarify their needs and understanding.
Gemini Feedback for Written Assignments - Help page - Blog post
Educators can generate suggestions from Gemini to draft feedback for written assignments that is specifically tailored to a student's work, grade level, and any specific focus area designated by the educator.
Educators can review and edit the feedback from Gemini before they share it with students through private comments.
YouTube Interactive Quizzes - Help page
Provides the ability to insert questions (Multiple choice, checkbox or short answer) into a YouTube video to check for understanding.
Both these resource types provide a detailed overview of student progress to the teacher.
Marking Periods - Help page
Provides the ability to create specific marking periods (eg, terms, semesters) to assign work to.
Classroom Gradebook then calculates averages, etc on these marking periods.
Marking Scales - Help page
Classroom can support different marking scales besides just numeric values including:
Proficiency
Letter Marks
4 point scale
Create your own custom marking scale
Cutoff grades are customisable
Enhanced Originality Reports - Help page
Unlimited originality reports on student writing
Peer comparison on originality reports - Help page
Practice Sets - Help page
Smart quizzes that can support student understanding.
Practice Sets can include built-in resources such as notes, URLs or videos that students are directed to if they need help.
Students can also show their work or make notes that are kept with their responses.
Analytics - Help page
Automatically generated analytics showing:
Assignment completion %
Average mark
Missing assignments
Active student %
Viewable by Class, Student or OU
Visit a Class - Help page
Provides school leaders, department heads, curriculum leaders, etc, with the option to enter a class temporarily.
This removes the need for them to be a member of every class, and the associated clutter in their Google Classroom.
It can also be used to look at the status of any student in a class.
Requires configuration by the administrator to allow access to the appropriate people.
Add Ons - Help page
Integrate other 3rd party edtech tools directly into Classroom.
Adds-Ons may require additional licensing and admin setup.
Guardian Access - Help page
Guardians can be given access to a private login page to see their child’s work.
This is in addition to the usual Guardian Summaries by email option
Share & preview classwork & class templates - Help page
You can share classwork from classes in Google Classroom with other teachers in your organization, without the need to add them as a co-teacher.
When teachers preview your shared class, they can:
Select which materials they want to use
Import materials to an existing class
📄 Google Docs
Help me write - Help page - Help page
You can use Gemini in Google Docs to generate first drafts that incorporate relevant context and sources from your files in Drive, Chat, Gmail, and the web.
You can also reference existing specific writing style and formatting to create personalized documents such as proposals, project plans, and blog posts.
Generate an image - Help page
You can generate and edit an image with Gemini in Google Docs.
Audio generation - Help page
You can use audio generation with Gemini to:
Listen to audio versions of your document tabs.
Listen to audio summaries of your documents.
Add audio buttons to documents.
Summarize a document - Help page
When you generate a summary, Gemini summarizes all the text in a document, including the text in different tabs.
Document Approvals - Help page
Ability to set up an approval chain for documents, send to receivers for approval, and then lock them.
More Smart Chips - Help page
Vote, Stopwatch, Timer, Variables
More Building Blocks - Help page
Code Block, Calendar Event, Task Tracker
Custom Building Blocks - Help page
Ability to create your own custom building blocks based on any existing text (including tables, variables, etc)
eSignatures - Help page
Ability to send out a document for e-signing.
After inserting the eSignature blocks (name, signature, initials, open text field, auto date) the document can be sent to people for signing.
It converts the document to a PDF and creates a signing workflow, and full audit log.
Tasks - Help page
Ability to assign any item in a checklist or a task tracker building block to a person, with a due date.
This task then integrates directing with Google Tasks and Google Calendar.
Variables - Help page
Named blocks that can contain any text. Each named block can be reused throughout the document
🖼️ Google Slides
Gemini side panel - Help page
With Gemini in Google Slides, you can:
Generate images.
Generate new slides.
Summarize a presentation.
Write or rewrite content.
Reference your Drive files as you write or create a new slide.
And many more functions
Generate an image - Help page
You can generate and edit an image with Gemini in Google Slides.
Remove image backgrounds - Help page
For any image in Google Slides, you can remove the background.
Refine writing - Help page
You can use text refining suggestions with Gemini in Google Slides to improve the quality of your content such as:
Shorten text
Rephrase sentences
Make the tone of voice more formal
Convert paragraphs into bullet points
Generate and edit slides - Help page
With Gemini in Google Slides, you can generate and edit slides with a prompt.
It helps you build your presentation and lets you adjust the images and content on the slide at any time.
Generate presentations - Help page
With Gemini in Google Slides, you can generate fully editable presentations.
Document Approvals - Help page
Ability to set up an approval chain for documents, send to receivers for approval, and then lock them.
📊 Google Sheets
Gemini side panel - Help page
With Gemini in Google Sheets, you can:
Create tables.
Create formulas.
Generate data analysis and insights.
Build charts and graphs.
And many more functions.
AI function - Help page
You can use the AI function to:
Generate text.
Summarize information.
Categorize information.
Analyze sentiment.
Access real-time information from Google Search.
Enhanced smart fill - Help page
On Google Sheets, enhanced Smart Fill suggestions makes manual text processing tasks easier.
It automatically detects the relationship between incomplete column pairs.
It also uses AI to predict the remaining values, which allows them to be instantly filled.
Document Approvals - Help page
Ability to set up an approval chain for documents, send to receivers for approval, and then lock them.
Conditional Notifications - Help page
Set up conditional triggers if values in a Sheet change or meet preselected criteria.
Users can be notified via email.
✅ Google Forms
Help me create a form - Help page
In Google Forms, you can use "Help me create a form" to create new forms based on your prompts using Gemini.
Summarize & analyze responses - Help page
You can use Gemini to summarize responses to open text questions in your Google Forms.
Generate questions - Help page
You can use Gemini to quickly add relevant new questions to your form based on your current content.
🎬 Google Vids
Help me create - Help page
You can plan your video with Gemini in Google Vids using "Help me create."
Enter a prompt, then you can type the “@” symbol to add related documents.
Once you’ve submitted your request and all related documents, Vids will generate:
A suggested outline, with suggested scenes populated with generated text
Media (images, videos, and music) from stock and/or files included in the prompt
A script
A voiceover
Slides to Vids - Help page
You can use a presentation in Google Slides to create scenes for a new or existing video in Google Vids.
Each slide becomes a new scene.
You can review, edit, or delete scenes.
You can also use Gemini in Vids to generate scripts, AI voiceovers, apply background music, and add animations for your imported slides.
AI avatars - Help page
You can choose from several different preset AI avatars.
Each has a different look and built-in voice.
When you use these AI avatars, you can add spoken content without the need to record audio.
AI video clips - Help page
With AI in Google Vids, you can create and modify video clips as you want.
You can generate a new clip from a text prompt using reference images or avatars, animate a static image, edit an uploaded video, or extend a clip adding more actions.
Image generation - Help page
You can generate and edit an image with Gemini in Vids.
Music generation - Help page
You can generate a unique custom music that perfectly matches your video's mood and context.
You can generate music in full songs around 3 minutes long or music clips around 30 seconds long.
📧 Gmail
Personalized email campaigns with mail merge - Help page
Gmail has a built-in mail merge option
Create or edit a Google Sheet with the data you want to use for your mail merge.
Start a new email message.
Link the data to the email message
Add more data to the email message
Send the mail merge
📓 Gemini Notebook
📷 Google Meet
Increased participant limit - Help page
1,000 participants (Note: After 500, the next 500 join as View only.)
Breakout Rooms - Help page
Meeting hosts can use breakout rooms to divide participants into smaller groups during meetings.
Breakout rooms must be started by meeting hosts during a meeting on a computer.
Breakout rooms currently can’t be live streamed or recorded.
Auto or manual distribution
Room naming
Prepare in advance (via Calendar)
Auto shuffle
Timer
In-Domain Live Streaming - Help page
Meet calls can be streamed live within the domain, with both live Q&A and polls if the host allows it.
YouTube Live Streaming - Help page
Streaming live to YouTube as public, unlisted or private. Live chat to YouTube is supported.
Polls - Help page
Create polls for participants to vote on.
After the meeting, the moderator is automatically emailed a report of the poll results. The report contains names and answers of the participants if not anonymous.
Multiple Choice
With or without names
Show responses when ready
Q&A - Help page
Q&A allows anyone in a meeting to ask questions.
The questions show until they're deleted or hidden.
After a meeting, the moderator gets a detailed report of all the questions.
300 character limit
Question management
Show questions (Answered, Unanswered, hidden)
Sort questions (Pending, Oldest, Newest, Popular)
Anonymous option (controllable)
Recording - Help page
Record and save direct to Drive
Admin configurable to auto record
Include captions option
Start a transcript option
Auto reporting on attendee
Auto reporting on activities (Polls, Q&A)
Transcripts - Help page
Transcribe the call to a Google Doc
Track attendance - Help page
Attendance report for any meeting with 2 or more participants.
After the meeting, the organizer will receive an email with an attached Google Sheets attendance report with participant’s name, participant’s email, and length of time participant was on a call, including timestamps of when they first joined and when they left the call.
Translated captions - Help page
You can use translated captions to translate to and from specific languages.
Co-present Slides - Help page
When presenting Google Slides from within a video meeting, you can also make other people in the video meeting co-presenters of the presentation.
Calendar guest list - Help page
View list of participants who were invited to a Google Meet meeting but have yet to join the call.
View the RSVP status of everyone on the invite, including “optional” attendees.
Reach out to individual invitees through Chat.
🛠️ Class Tools
Class Tools to Make Google BETTer - Blog post link
Help teachers with classroom management and student learning
Requires managed Chromebooks
Requires Education Plus tier or Teaching and Learning add-on
Sharing Content
Teachers can add content to the Class tools session for the students to access.
Limit how the student can navigate within the content.
Screen Sharing and Viewing
The teacher has the option to share screens to a class display.
The teacher has the option to view student screens.
Captions and Translations
Captions will show what the teacher is saying live in class.
Captions can be displayed on the teacher's Chromebook and/or the students' Chromebooks.
Teachers and students can change the language of the captions.
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