We’re saying goodbye to unli storage
Google bares ‘next era’ of G-Suite: Google Workspace for Education, 50+ new features
Google during its ‘Learning with Google’ event on Wednesday, officially announced the rebranding of its education product, G Suite for Education to the “Google Workspace for Education,” together with more than 50 new education features aiming to “provide users greater choice and flexibility in selecting the best tools to empower their institutions.”
With more than 170 million students and educators worldwide relying on the company’s suites amidst COVID-19, Google aims to refine and modify its education platforms that are used by millions of people globally every day to be convenient; by integrating all products and tools in one place that are accessible in any devices.
The rebranded product, similar to its old version has one free edition namely ‘Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals.’ The free edition offers all real-time collaboration tools (Google Docs, etc.), including other communication and education platforms (Google Meet, etc.). There are three upgrade options: the Google Workplace for Education Plus, Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Google Workspace for Education Standard, where purchase is available in April that offer more features and tools.
Moreover, two of Google’s most used applications amid the pandemic, Google Classroom, and Google Meet, have been given many improvements including an offline mode, improved mobile grading, classroom add-ons, roster sync, improved homework pictures quality, and the student engagement tracking for the former, and multiple moderators, mute and end meeting for all settings for the teachers to the latter.
Along with the new features, however, is the removal of free unlimited storage for users. Google has introduced a “pooled cloud storage” with a baseline of 100 terabytes, holding all Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos files from every individual in an organization in one storage, effective in July 2022.
