New AI tools for Google Workspace for Education

Jun 24, 2024

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Akshay Kirtikar

Senior Product Manager, Google Workspace for Education

Brian Hendricks

Group Product Manager, Google Workspace for Education

Editor’s note: This week we’re joining thousands of educators and students at ISTE, nan United States’ biggest acquisition exertion exhibition. Visit america astatine Booth 1424, wherever you tin cheque retired new Chromebooks and features in Google Workspace for Education. Follow on on Twitter and Facebook for nan latest updates.

Helping teen students study responsibly and confidently successful an AI-first early pinch Gemini

Google is committed to making AI adjuvant for everyone, successful nan schoolroom and beyond. We want to some hole teens pinch nan skills and devices they request to thrive successful nan early wherever GenAI exists and thatch them really this exertion tin beryllium utilized to unlock productivity and facilitate learning. Gemini tin supply guided support to thief students study much confidently pinch in-the-moment assistance, believe materials and real-time feedback and ideas. Hands-on acquisition pinch generative AI will thief hole students for an AI-driven future.

Last twelvemonth we released a responsible Gemini acquisition for teens utilizing their individual Google Accounts aft consulting pinch kid information and improvement experts to thief style our contented policies and an acquisition that prioritizes safety. Since past we’ve taken a number of further steps to guarantee we’re bringing this exertion to students responsibly, partnering pinch learning subject experts, testing pinch younker advisory panels and committing to adhd extra information protection for each acquisition users free of charge, meaning Google will not usage information from chats to amended AI models.

In nan coming months, we're making Gemini disposable to teen students that meet our minimum property requirements while utilizing their Google Workspace for Education accounts successful English successful complete 100 countries astir nan world, free of complaint for each acquisition institutions. To guarantee schools are ever successful control, Gemini will beryllium disconnected by default for teens until admins take to move it connected successful nan Admin console.

Our teen acquisition provides a uniquely responsible and useful Gemini for younger students:

• Gemini has been tuned to place contented that whitethorn beryllium inappropriate to teen users and trigger policies and guardrails to thief forestall inappropriate responses, specified arsenic forbidden aliases age-gated substances, from appearing.
• The first clip a personification asks a fact-based question, Gemini will automatically tally its double-check consequence feature, which helps measure whether there’s contented crossed nan web to substantiate its response. We'll actively urge teens usage nan double-check characteristic in-product to thief them create accusation literacy and captious reasoning skills.
• A teen-friendly onboarding acquisition successful Gemini includes an AI Literacy video--endorsed by ConnectSafely and FOSI--with tips connected really to usage generative AI responsibly .
• Learning Coach, a civilization type of Gemini powered by LearnLM, will soon thief students build knowledge by providing step-by-step study guidance, on pinch adjuvant believe activities for illustration quizzes and games.
• OpenStax and Data Commons extensions will soon thief students study pinch accusation from trusted sources.

During their Gemini onboarding, teens will spot this video astir really to usage generative AI responsibly.

Engaging students successful caller ways and assessing their progress

• Easy video creation for school and learning pinch Google Vids. We precocious announced Google Vids, a collaborative video creation app successful Google Workspace for Education that makes it easy to create engaging videos and animate nan adjacent activity of storytellers. In early testing, we’ve heard affirmative feedback from educators utilizing Vids for everything from pre-recorded lessons to video explainers, syllabus overviews, master improvement and more. Students person besides shared their excitement astir utilizing Vids for video book reports, video essays, and more. We’re releasing a type of Vids without generative AI exclusively to students and educators pinch Google Workspace for Education Plus later this year; nan type powered by generative AI will beryllium disposable pinch a Gemini for Google Workspace adhd on.
• Growing reference skills pinch Read Along successful Google Classroom. Read Along successful Classroom, now a Google Workspace for Education service, helps students build independent reference skills and get real-time support pinch nan thief of AI. Educators tin delegate reference activities for individual students based connected Lexile® measure, people level, aliases phonics skills, pinch complete 800 books from Heggerty, ReadWorks, and much to take from. Educators tin position insights connected reference accuracy, velocity and comprehension, and we’re piloting nan expertise to make personalized stories tailored to student needs. Read Along successful Classroom will beryllium disposable globally, truthful students astir nan world tin believe their reference skills successful English. Teachers tin besides alteration further support successful a student’s autochthonal language, starting pinch Spanish, for definite books.
• Helping educators support students: To make instruction and contented readying easier, we’re piloting Gemini successful Classroom features powered by LearnLM. Separately, to differentiate instruction, educators will soon beryllium capable to specify groups of students successful Classroom to delegate different contented based connected each group’s needs. And to thief show student engagement, educators tin soon spot students’ activity aliases inactivity pinch Drive attachments wrong assignments.
• Making it easier to create believe sets and video activities: Starting pinch nan caller Resources tab successful Classroom, educators tin much easy create, negociate and stock interactive lessons. Educators globally tin now create interactive video activities pinch caller support for Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi and Urdu. English users tin leverage AI-suggested questions to connect to YouTube assignments for definite subject videos. For believe sets, we’re addressing top-requested features, for illustration being capable to adhd images to believe problems and person a Google Form to a believe set, including image support.
• More elasticity and power pinch grading: In summation to being capable to group grading periods and scales, educators will beryllium capable to take a default draught people for missing assignments. They’ll besides beryllium capable to manually people assignments arsenic missing aliases complete, execute bulk scoring actions and position authorities history connected excused and missing assignments. Additionally, students tin soon position their grades by grading periods.

Enabling greater integration and collaboration

• Collaborate pinch Meet and Assignments successful your LMS. Google Workspace Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI)™ is our postulation of products that link Google Workspace for Education pinch celebrated learning guidance systems (LMS). In nan coming weeks, students and educators who usage Canvas and PowerSchool Schoology Learning will beryllium capable to entree Google Meet straight from their LMS pinch Google Meet LTI. Educators who usage Canvas person already been utilizing Assignments LTI to amended distribute, analyse and people student work. In nan coming weeks, Assignments LTI 1.3 will beryllium disposable successful PowerSchool Schoology Learning arsenic well.
• Save clip pinch student accusation strategy (SIS) integrations: In summation to educators exporting grades from Google Classroom to prime SIS gradebooks, educators will beryllium capable to group up classes pinch OneRoster SIS partners, including Aspen, Infinite Campus, Skyward and PowerSchool SIS, and import accusation for illustration student lists, co-teachers and grading settings.
• Discover caller acquisition apps and Classroom add-ons successful the Google for Education App Hub. We’re launching 17 caller Classroom add-ons, expanding nan app licensing programme to see 6 caller partners coming this autumn and providing educators pinch a wider scope of integrated devices to enrich nan learning experience.
• Expanding guardian access: Going forward, guardian email summaries will now alteration parents and guardians to preview their student's Classwork pages, including assigned activity and attachments provided by nan teacher.
• Easily cod physics signatures: Rolling retired successful nan coming days, eSignature will make it easy for educators to draught contracts, petition signatures successful Docs and PDFs successful Drive, and negociate statement templates each successful 1 place.

Fostering inclusive learning and a much proactive attack to security

• Chat safer pinch caller settings for students successful Google Chat. In nan coming months, admins will beryllium capable to restrict students from initiating nonstop messages and creating spaces, helping supply a safer and easier measurement for teachers to pass pinch students.
• Protect information pinch improved controls successful Admin console. Now available, multi-party approval allows admins to require further support by different admin to complete a delicate action, specified arsenic changing two-step verification settings. And admins tin now proactively artifact compromised mobile devices utilizing context-aware access.
• Reduce oculus strain pinch acheronian theme: The Google Classroom mobile app now has acheronian taxable connected Android and iOS.
• Teach students handwriting pinch caller location fonts. We're adding 51 caller handwriting font families to Google Fonts and Google Workspace for Education based connected handwriting research, arsenic good arsenic typefaces designed for annotations, instructions and student notes. Learn much astatine fonts.google.