The free version will be rebranded Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals, and will remain largely the same. But the set will be available in four editions instead of just two to better accommodate a wider variety of needs. The tools themselves, now used by 170 million students and educators globally, won’t change. Admins will also be able to install these add-ons for other teachers in their domains.įinally, Google’s “G Suite for Education,” which includes Classroom, Meet, Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides and more, will be rebranded as Google Workspace for Education. To better cater to those who are using Classroom as the hub for online learning, a new marketplace of Classroom “add-ons” will allow teachers later this year to select their favorite edtech tools and content and assign them directly to students, without requiring extra log-ins. Today, the service is used by over 150 million students, teachers and school admins, up from just 40 million last year.Īs a result of the pandemic-prompted adoption and user feedback, Google is introducing a range of new features for Classroom this year, some of which will be made available sooner than others. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, Google found that many educators had begun to use Classroom as the “hub” for their online learning activities. When Google first introduced Google Classroom, it didn’t set out to create a Learning Management System (LMS), the company says. In total, Google is promising more than 50 new features across its education products, with a focus on meeting educators’ and admins’ needs, in particular, in addition to those of the students. Google today introduced a suite of updates for its online education tools whose adoption and further development have been accelerated by the pandemic, including Google Classroom, Google Meet and the next generation of G Suite for Education, now rebranded as Google Workspace for Education.
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