Google Workspace Updates: 2024

Access Google Meet artifacts with a new Google Drive API scope

Thursday, July 11, 2024

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 transcripts, notes, recordings, and more. This granular level of authorization helps ensure Drive access is not provisioned too broadly and only the necessary files can be accessed.

Getting started

Admins and Developers: Use our Developer Documentation to learn more about configuring the OAuth consent screen and choosing scopes and Drive API scopes.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 11, 2024

Availability

The Google Drive API is available for all Google Workspace customers

Resources

Rollout Update: setting the default camera framing option for Google Meet hardware devices

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

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 optimize performance, we are pleased to announce that this feature is now fully available.

Getting started

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers with Google Meet hardware devices

Resources

Google Meet and Zoom interoperability now includes presented content via a wired HDMI connection

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

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 Google Meet hardware devices
Present HDMI content into Google Meet meetings from supported Zoom Rooms

This is designed to make it even easier for our customers and their users to connect and collaborate with people outside of the Meet ecosystem. To learn more about interoperability between Google Meet and Zoom, check out these previous announcements:

Getting started

Admins: Zoom interop on Google Meet hardware will be available on devices by default and can be disabled in the Workspace Admin console at the OU level at Devices > Google Meet hardware > Settings > Device Settings > Built-in interoperability.
End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about Google Meet interoperability and how to present using an HDMI cable.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 9, 2024

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers with Google Meet hardware Chrome-based devices

Resources

Use the Apple Volume Purchasing Program (VPP) to distribute apps for device enrollment and company owned devices

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

What’s changingIn November 2023, we announced the ability to purchase and distribute iOS apps to user-enrolled devices through Apple’s Volume Purchase Program. Beginning today, we’re expanding this functionality to include device enrollment and company-owned iOS devices.

Who’s impacted

Admins and end users

Why you’d use it

Admins can use the Volume Purchasing Program to efficiently curate a suite of work-related apps—both free and paid—for their team. This streamlined process not only simplifies the deployment of essential business apps but also ensures that employees have access to the right apps they need to be productive and efficient, all within the secure perimeter of our MDM platform. To further streamline the enrollment and app distribution process, we’re automatically installing mandatory apps during enrollment for company-owned devices. This latest update makes it easier for admins to deploy apps across various device types in their organization.

Additional details

Please note that Apple ID sign-in won't be needed in the company-owned iOS devices flow after configuring apps with VPP.

The automatic installation of mandatory apps during onboarding applies to all enrollment types and devices that violate mandatory apps compliance will be immediately blocked until the required app(s) are installed.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 9, 2024

Availability

Available to Google Workspace

Business Plus
Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus
Enterprise Standard and Plus
Education Standard and Plus, and the Endpoint Education Upgrade add-on
Frontline Starter and Standard
Cloud Identity Premium

Resources

Google Workspace Admin Help: Distribute iOS apps with Apple VPP
Google Workspace Admin Help: Separate work and personal data on iOS devices
Google Workspace Admin Help: Apply settings for iOS devices
Google Help: Set up Google Workspace on an iOS device
Google Help: Get approved work apps on iOS devices
Google Help: How your iOS device is managed

Pre-configure meeting notes, recordings, and transcripts from the Calendar invite

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

What’s changing Meeting hosts can now pre-configure meeting notes, meeting recordings, and meeting transcripts from the Calendar invite. This helps ensure that these specific artifacts are automatically captured, reducing the need for the meeting host to turn them on during the meeting, removing awkward pauses or the risk of forgetting to turn them on all together.

You can configure these artifacts from the Calendar invite by going to Settings > Meeting records and selecting which artifacts you want automatically applied

Getting started

Admins: Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning meeting recordings on or off for your organization and turning Meet Transcriptions on or off. When turned on, meeting hosts will be able to pre-configure these artifacts for their meetings.
End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about enabling meeting records to start automatically.

Rollout pace

Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on July 9, 2024

Availability

Available for Google Workspace*:

Business Standard and Plus
Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
Education Plus and the Teaching and Learning Upgrade
Essentials and Enterprise Essentials,
Workspace Individual Subscribers
Google One subscribers with 2 TB or more storage space

*Note that your Google Workspace edition will determine which meeting features are available to you.

Resources

Enhancing the Google Calendar appointment scheduling experience with additional features

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

What’s changingFollowing our recent announcement of the appointment slots feature in Google Calendar being replaced by appointment schedules in July 2024, we’re updating appointment schedules by adding new features to enhance the overall experience.
First, we’re adding the option to designate a custom weekly recurrence when creating an appointment schedule in Calendar. This will allow users to make the schedule repeat on more flexible recurrences, such as bi-weekly.

option to designate a custom weekly recurrence when creating an appointment schedule in Calendar

Second, bookers (and co-hosts) can now add other guests or rooms to booked events. This feature is only available if the user creating the appointment schedule selects the “Guests can invite others” option during setup or edit of the schedule.

Lastly, the appointment schedule creator can now add Google Groups as co-hosts during the setup process so users can more easily host appointments with others.

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for these features.
End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about creating an appointment schedule and customizing your appointment availability.

Rollout pace

Availability The custom recurrence option & allowing guests to invite others on Appointment Schedules are available for Google Workspace:

Business Starter, Standard, Plus
Enterprise Standard, Plus
Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus, the Teaching & Learning Upgrade
Nonprofits
Workspace Individual Subscribers
Google One Premium users
Users with personal Google accounts

Adding groups as co-hosts on Appointment Schedules is available for Google Workspace:

Business Standard, Plus
Enterprise Standard, Plus
Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus, the Teaching & Learning Upgrade
Nonprofits

Resources

Manage your compliance and data controls from a single source in the Admin console

Monday, July 8, 2024

What’s changing We know that compliance and data controls are paramount for our customers, both in understanding Google Workspace’s policies and configuring compliance-relevant features according to the needs of their business sector and geographical region. To help our customers navigate these complexities, we’ve centralized some of these relevant features and information into a single location in the admin console: Data.

Within this section, admins can:

Find a centralized hub containing all data and compliance-related features such as data regions, access transparency, and more.

Access Approvals, Access Management, Access Transparency, Client Side Encryption, Data Regions can now be found under Data > Compliance. Please note that Access Transparency can still be found under Menu > Reporting.

Data Export, Data migration, and Google Takeout can now be found under Data > Data import & export.
Find a dedicated compliance node containing guides and resources to help them configure their settings within various regulations and standards such as IL4, CJIS, and FedRAMP High.

Data > Overview

Data > Compliance > Guides and Resources

Getting started

Admins: You can access the new Data node compliance center in the Admin console by navigating to Menu > Data. From here, you will find the Overview page, as well as the Compliance and Data Import & Export categories.
End users: There is no end user impact or action required.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 8, 2024

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers

Resources

Access Management is now generally available in the European Union

Monday, July 8, 2024

What’s changing Access Management is now also generally available in the European Union — these controls allow customers to select the physical location from which Google support teams can access organizational data during support activities. Customers can now restrict support personnel to EU Google staff in EU locations. If necessary, non-EU Google staff may access data through virtual desktops that are located in EU locations.

Who’s impacted

Admins

Why it’s important

Google Workspace Assured Controls enables customers to meet strict regulatory information governance requirements. With Access Management, customers can limit the Google staff who can take support actions related to their data. Additionally, since Assured Controls is available on Google Workspace’s native platform, you don’t need to move to a separate GovCloud environment for access to these capabilities. This update gives our customers another way to configure how and where their data is accessed by Google staff.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 8, 2024

Availability

Assured controls are available as a paid-add on for Google Workspace Enterprise Plus. For more information, contact your Google account representative.

Resources

Introducing a new experience for data regions reporting

Monday, July 8, 2024

What’s changing We’re pleased to announce several new enhancements to Google Workspace data regions:

For the first time, admins will be able to specify not only the region (EU or US) where their data is stored, but also the region in which it is processed, with granular controls to allow administrators to easily refine the region and level of compliance needed as appropriate for their organizational groups. Workspace customers have the flexibility to select multiple geographies to suit their needs, versus being restricted to one region mandated by billing address.

Also, based on customer feedback, we have re-architected our reporting dashboard to both deliver new functionality and simplify the experience for administrators. These include:

A simplified experience that focuses on the status of your data region's posture.
Streamlined reporting for Google Workspace Enterprise Plus customers.
Advanced reporting for Assured Controls customers.

Who’s impacted

Admins

Why it’s important

Assign data processing to the United States or Europe

Although customers are not required to use the sovereignty offerings within Workspace in order to comply with the GDPR, we make advanced data residency controls available so that customers can proactively leverage digital sovereignty best practices and keep pace with regulatory legislation.

Putting the emphasis on status

We’ve heard from our customers that it’s critical to quickly determine whether their data is being stored in the proper location. Based on this feedback, we’ve simplified the dashboard to consolidate parameters like “application” and “data type”, which were not useful to customers into a single status indicator.

Also, admins can now access two new reporting cards: Versions and Policies. The Versions card will tell admins how many users have each edition of data regions, while the Policies card will tell you how many users have their storage and processing settings assigned to the US or Europe.

It’s important to note that if you’re subject to partial domain licensing, you may see a mix of users spread across different editions. A user’s feature set may vary based on their assigned Workspace editions — we recommend using our Help Center to learn more about the difference between editions.

Advanced reporting for Assured Controls customers

For those Google Workspace customers using Assured Controls, you can leverage more advanced reporting which will help you determine that data is being both stored and processed properly. You can also drill down into this information on an app-by-app basis.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 8, 2024 with anticipated completion by the end of August 5, 2024.

Availability

Enterprise Data Regions are included with Enterprise Plus, Education Standard, Education Plus, and Enterprise Essentials Plus.
Fundamental Data Regions are included with Frontline Starter, Frontline Standard, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, and Enterprise Essentials. Reporting is not included with fundamental data regions — you can purchase Enterprise data regions as a paid add-on with any of these editions.
Assured Controls are available as a paid-add on for Google Workspace Enterprise Plus.

Resources

Important policy updates for Early Access apps starting July 30, 2024

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

What’s changing To ensure organizations’ continued access to services, we're changing the way Early Access apps transition to Additional Google Services:

Currently, when an Early Access app becomes an Additional Google Service, it is turned on or off by default based on your new services preference in the Admin console. This occurs even if the Early Access apps service status is set to On for everyone.

Starting July 30, 2024, if you have an Early Access app service set to On, you won’t lose access to the app when it transitions to an additional service, regardless of your new service preferences. These apps will only be turned off if both settings are set to Off.

Additional details

Google AI Studio will transition from an Early Access app to an Additional Google Service on July 30, 2024. Access to AI Studio will be based on the information outlined above. We recommend that you double-check your settings ahead of time to ensure access to AI Studio is configured as you see fit.

Getting started

Rollout pace

The updated policy will take effect for all Google Workspace customers on July 30, 2024.

Availability

This update impacts all Google Workspace customers.

Resources

Adding a 'missing' grade state to Gradebook in Google Classroom

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

What’s changing In the last year, we’ve added new features, such as disabling submissions after a due date in Google Classroom and excusing assignments in Google Classroom, in order to give teachers even more flexibility when it comes to grading for assignments and classwork.
Today, we're improving support for missing assignments in gradebook by giving teachers the ability to manually mark an assignment as ‘missing’ or ‘complete’ and automatically add a default draft score.

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
End users:

By default, all missing assignments will automatically receive a draft score of ‘0’. However, teachers can adjust the default draft score or turn OFF the automated scoring feature.
Assignments that displayed the ‘missing’ labels prior to this update will be automatically updated and receive the draft score.
Visit the Help Center to learn more about grading & returning an assignment.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 2, 2024

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts

Resources

Google Help: Grade & return an assignment

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap - June 28, 2024

Friday, June 28, 2024

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 Rapid and Scheduled Release at the same time. If not, each stage of rollout should take no more than 15 business days to complete.
Your users can now express interest in Gemini for Google Workspace

We’re introducing a simple way for Workspace end users to request a Gemini license from their admins on the Gemini for Google Workspace homepage. To send this request, Workspace end users simply select ‘Get Started’ from the Gemini for Google Workspace marketing page, then click on ‘Ask my admin’ and complete the request form. Super admins will receive this request by email, and from there they can choose to purchase a Gemini license in the Admin console.

Admins will have the option to disable these requests prior to this update. Admins can do so in the Admin console by going to Account > Account Settings > Gemini for Google Workspace, and deselecting the ‘User-requested upgrades’ setting— use this article in our Help Center for more information. | Rolling out now to Rapid Release domains and Scheduled Release domains. | Learn more about Gemini for Workspace, including our recent Gemini for Workspace announcements.

Multi-account support now available for Google Keep on large screen Android devices

Last year, we introduced multi-instance support for Google Keep on large screen Android devices. To take this a step further, we’re now allowing multiple accounts to be used at the same time on the same device in Keep. Having two windows open side-by-side enables better insight into your notes and gives you more ways to work with, display, and organize your content across multiple accounts. | Rolling out now to Rapid Release domains and Scheduled Release domains. | Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts.

Updates for Gemini for Workspace usage reports in the Admin consoleRecently, we introduced Gemini for Workspace usage reports in the Admin console. Beginning today, we’re introducing additional updates for these reports:

Usage reports are now available for Gemini Education and Gemini Education Premium customers.
Admins can filter usage reports by OU and Groups.

Admins can access these reports via Admin console under Menu > Generative AI > Gemini reports. | Also available to Google Workspace customers with the Gemini Enterprise and Gemini Business add-ons. | Rolling out now to Rapid Release domains and Scheduled Release domains. | Learn more about reviewing Gemini usage in your organization.

Updates for Gemini for Workspace usage reports in the Admin console

Previous announcements

The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog earlier this week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

Google Classroom add-ons now generally available to Google Workspace developers

Classroom add-ons generally available to all developers. These complement other Classroom API features and let educators and students experience content without having to leave Google Classroom. | Learn more about Classroom add-ons.

Manage access to eSignature in Google Workspace

The admin control for Google Workspace’s eSignature feature is live for select Google Workspace editions. Admins can control users’ ability to request signatures before eSignature rolls out to end users in the coming weeks. | Learn more about eSignature in Google Workspace.

Gemini in the side panel of Gmail, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, and Google Drive is rolling out now

We’re pleased to announce the general availability of Gemini in the side panel of Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. Learn more about the side panel in Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive and Gmail.

Bringing our Learning Interoperability Tools under one umbrella: Google Workspace LTI™

Going forward, all Learning Interoperability Tools, including Assignments LTI™, and Google Drive LTI™, will be consolidated into a single category: Google Workspace LTI™. | Learn more about Google Workspace LTI™.

Introducing Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ for Google Workspace

Currently, Google Workspace admins can turn Colab on for their users, allowing them to access the free version of Colab. This week, we announced the Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ standalone subscriptions for Google Workspace customers. | Learn more about Colab for Google Workspace.

Grading periods API for Google Classroom is now available in Developer Preview

Grading period endpoints and capabilities in the Classroom API are now available through the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program. | Learn more about the Grading periods API.

Additional admin space management capabilities in Google Chat API are now available in Developer Preview Program

We’re pleased to announce more space management capabilities, such as the ability to look up details about specific space, update space details, and more. | Learn more about admin space management capabilities in Google Chat API.

Improving calculation speed in Google Sheets

We recently announced the latest advancements in Sheets, including that we’ve doubled the speed of calculation in Google Sheets on Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers. This update can improve the speed of actions like formulas, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and more, regardless of your file size. | Learn more about Sheets calculations.

Add up to 500,000 members to spaces in Google Chat

To provide greater flexibility and inclusiveness for larger organizations, we’re excited to announce that starting today, spaces can now have up to 500,000 members. | Learn more about large spaces in Chat.

Completed rollouts

The features below completed their rollouts to Rapid Release domains, Scheduled Release domains, or both. Please refer to the original blog posts for additional details.

Rapid Release Domains:

Comments and action items in client-side encrypted Google Docs is now generally available

Scheduled Release Domains:

Send emails to spaces in Google Chat
Switch between edit, view and comment mode in Google Slides
Google Meet add-ons are now available on Android devices

Rapid and Scheduled Release Domains:

For a recap of announcements in the past six months, check out What’s new in Google Workspace (recent releases).

Add up to 500,000 members to spaces in Google Chat

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

What’s changingShortly after introducing announcements in Google Chat last year, we increased the number of users you can add to a space from 8,000 to 50,000. To provide greater flexibility and inclusiveness for larger organizations, we’re excited to announce that starting today, spaces can now have up to 500,000 members.

spaces can now have up to 500,000 members.

If you are adding a Google Group as a member to set up large spaces, the table below shows how long it will typically take to populate this space.

Who’s impacted End users

Why it’s important Companies can now create org-wide spaces to announce news and updates to their employees, helping ensure broader reachability and measurability of their communications.

Additional details We’ve introduced features to enhance membership management, which is particularly important now with larger spaces in Google Chat. Some examples include:

The ability to manage reported Google Chat content from the new moderation tool in the Admin console
Several updates for the Space Management Tool in the Admin console, including an improved user interface and additional management capabilities
The option to add Google Groups to spaces in Google Chat
Data loss prevention for Google Chat

Getting started

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on June 26, 2024

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers

Resources

Google Workspace Admin Help: Google Chat known limitations
Google Workspace Admin Help: Optimize Spaces for your organization
Google Help: About spaces and group conversations
Google Help: Manage space settings

Improving calculation speed in Google Sheets

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

What’s changingWe recently announced the latest advancements in Sheets, including that we’ve doubled the speed of calculation in Google Sheets on Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers. This update can improve the speed of actions like formulas, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and more, regardless of your file size.

Who’s impacted End users

Why it matter Whether you’re a small business owner analyzing revenue, a finance leader managing millions of values, or a brand manager reviewing the latest orders of a product line, seeing changes in your data reflected quickly is important. This update helps to make that possible by improving calculation speed in Sheets on Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers.

Getting started

Rollout pace

This feature is available now for all users.

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts

Resources

Additional admin space management capabilities in Google Chat API are now available in Developer Preview Program

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

What’s changing We recently announced several new features for the Google Chat API that enable admins to manage spaces at scale. These features include the ability to audit spaces, delete inactive spaces in bulk, and more.
Today, we’re pleased to announce more space management capabilities, which include the ability to:

Look up details about specific space.
Update space details, including the name of a space, space description, and space guidelines.
Verify user’s membership status in a specific space.
Upgrade a role from space member to space manager.

These features are available now through our Developer Preview Program — see here for more information on how to enroll in the Developer Preview program.

Getting started

Admins and developers:

If you are part of the Google Workspace Developer Preview, you will get these features by default. Otherwise, you must apply for access using this form.
Use our Developer Documentation to learn how to authenticate and authorize using administrator privilege.

End users: There is no end user impact or action required.

Rollout pace

This feature is available now through the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program

Availability

New features for the Google Chat API scoped to admin users are available to participants of Google Workspace Developer Preview Program.

Resources

Grading periods API for Google Classroom is now available in Developer Preview

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

What’s changingLast year, we introduced grading periods, an option that allows administrators and teachers to define and apply grading periods segmented from the entire school year to their Google Classroom assignments.
Today, we’re excited to announce grading period endpoints and capabilities in the Classroom API, available through the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program. Specifically, developers can now:

Who’s impacted Developers

Why you’d use it The new grading periods endpoints allows developers to create, modify, and read grading periods in Classroom on behalf of administrators and teachers.

Getting started

Rollout pace

This is available now through the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program

Availability Available for Google Workspace:

Education Plus

Resources

Introducing Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ for Google Workspace

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

What’s changingCurrently, Google Workspace admins can turn Colab on for their users, allowing them to access the free version of Colab. Beginning today, we’re pleased to announce the Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ standalone subscriptions for Google Workspace customers:

Colab Pro offers 100 compute units that grant access to additional powerful GPUs, memory, features, and productivity enhancements enabled with AI assistance.

Colab Pro+ gives you all the benefits of Colab Pro like productivity enhancements enabled with AI assistance, plus an additional 400 compute units for a total of 500 per month that grant access to additional powerful GPUs, along with background execution for our longest-running sessions.

Who’s impacted

Admins and end users

Why it’s important

Colab provides access to Google's powerful computational resources, which can be used to train machine learning models and perform other data-intensive tasks — all from your web browser. It can be used for a variety of data science and machine learning tasks, including:

Exploratory data analysis
Developing with the Gemini API
Machine learning model development
Natural language processing such as text classification and sentiment analysis
Image processing such as object detection and image classification.

We know that many Colab users are also Google Workspace users, especially those within educational institutions. Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ can help enhance their work and research with more compute units, faster GPUs, more memory and more.

Further, these offerings can help admins efficiently subscribe an entire team or organization to Colab, thereby minimizing the friction associated with setting up individual accounts for each user. By managing subscriptions at the group level, organizations can more effectively support collaborative workflows and ensure that all team members have access to the resources they need.

Getting started

Admins:

End users:

Colab is OFF by default and can be enabled by your Admin.
Note that if you have purchased Colab's “Pay As You Go” offering for yourself, you can continue using it in addition with Colab Pro and Pro+.

Rollout pace

Gradually rolling out over the coming months to all customers

Availability

Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ are standalone subscriptions available to all Google Workspace customers with a verified domain.

Resources

Bringing our Learning Interoperability Tools under one umbrella: Google Workspace LTI™

Monday, June 24, 2024

What’s changing Going forward, all Learning Interoperability Tools, including Assignments LTI™, and Google Drive LTI™, will be consolidated into a single category: Google Workspace LTI™. There are no functionality changes with this update, but you will notice the following:

Assignments will be renamed to Google Workspace LTI™ in the Admin console and Google Workspace LTI™ in the Google Cloud console
All LTI tools managed in the Admin console with the Google Workspace LTI™ service
The Google Assignments Help Center will be rebranded to Google Workspace LTI™. The community forum will remain the same.

Getting started

Admins: You’ll notice these updates automatically. Visit the Help Center to learn more about Google Workspace LTI™.
End users: There is no end user impact or action required.

Rollout pace

This is now available.

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus, and the Teaching & Learning Upgrade

Resources

Google Workspace Help: Google Workspace LTI™ overview

Gemini in the side panel of Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, and Google Drive is rolling out now

Monday, June 24, 2024

What’s changingWe’re pleased to announce the general availability of Gemini in the side panel of Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. Through the side panel, Gemini can assist you with summarizing, analyzing, and generating content by utilizing insights gathered from your emails, documents, and more—all without switching applications or tabs. The updated interface automatically summarizes the content you're working on and provides contextually relevant prompts to help you get started.

Who’s impacted End users

Why you’d use it The side panel will use Google’s most capable models including the Gemini 1.5 Pro model with a longer context window and more advanced reasoning, allowing you to harness the power of Gemini directly from your most used Google Workspace apps. Here are a few examples of when you’d use it:

Docs: Gemini in Docs side panel can help you write and refine your content, summarize information, help you brainstorm, create content based off of other files, and more.

Gemini in Docs side panel

Slides: Gemini in Slides side panel can help you generate new slides, generate custom images, summarize presentations and more.

Using Gemini in Slides side panel

Sheets: Gemini in Sheets side panel can help you track and organize data. In the side panel, you can quickly create tables, generate formulas and ask how to accomplish certain tasks in Sheets.

Using Gemini in Sheets side panel

Drive: Gemini in Drive side panel can summarize one or multiple documents, get quick facts about a project, or deep dive on a topic without needing to find and click through numerous documents.

Using Gemini in Drive side panel

Additional details

We’re also introducing Gemini in the Gmail side panel, which you can leverage to summarize email threads, draft an email, suggest responses to an email thread, and more. For more information, see our announcement on the Workspace Updates blog.

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
End users: You can access the Gemini in the side panel by clicking on “Ask Gemini” (spark button) in the top right corner of Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive on the web. Visit the Help Center to learn more about collaborating with Gemini in Google Drive, as well as Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release domains: Full rollout (1-3 days for feature visibility) starting on June 24, 2024
Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 8, 2024

Availability

Available for Google Workspace customers with:

Gemini Business and Enterprise add-on
Gemini Education and Education Premium add-on
Google One AI Premium

Resources

Useful Links

Join the official community for Google Workspace administrators

In the Google Cloud Community, connect with Googlers and other Google Workspace admins like yourself. Participate in product discussions, check out the Community Articles, and learn tips and tricks that will make your work and life easier. Be the first to know what's happening with Google Workspace.

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Learn about more Google Workspace launches

On the “What’s new in Google Workspace?” Help Center page, learn about new products and features launching in Google Workspace, including smaller changes that haven’t been announced on the Google Workspace Updates blog.

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Updates

Access Google Meet artifacts with a new Google Drive API scope

Rollout Update: setting the default camera framing option for Google Meet hardware devices

Google Meet and Zoom interoperability now includes presented content via a wired HDMI connection

Use the Apple Volume Purchasing Program (VPP) to distribute apps for device enrollment and company owned devices

Pre-configure meeting notes, recordings, and transcripts from the Calendar invite

Enhancing the Google Calendar appointment scheduling experience with additional features

Manage your compliance and data controls from a single source in the Admin console

Access Management is now generally available in the European Union

Introducing a new experience for data regions reporting

Important policy updates for Early Access apps starting July 30, 2024

Adding a 'missing' grade state to Gradebook in Google Classroom

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap - June 28, 2024

Add up to 500,000 members to spaces in Google Chat

Improving calculation speed in Google Sheets

Additional admin space management capabilities in Google Chat API are now available in Developer Preview Program

Grading periods API for Google Classroom is now available in Developer Preview

Introducing Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ for Google Workspace

Bringing our Learning Interoperability Tools under one umbrella: Google Workspace LTI™

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