

Security Improvements Keep Online Environments Safe

Google has also added external livestreaming capabilities to its Workspace platform. Originality Reports in Classroom and Assignments are unlimited with this upgrade, and educators can use student-to-student matching to detect plagiarism within their own domain. Meet also allows for more interaction with the ability to create polls, quizzes and Q&As. Through Meet, educators can leverage breakout rooms, use attendance trackers and access transcripts of each lecture. Now, with the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, the features have become more robust. Three years ago, Workspace offered Meet for online interaction and Classroom to facilitate online lectures. Changing Features Offer More Interaction and Oversight Now, they can say, “Well, which cool stuff do I need? Do I need it for the teaching and learning side? Or do I want it for the management and security side of things? Do I want both? Then, I’ll level up.”ĭISCOVER: Learn more about the benefits of a Google Workspace for Education audit. IT departments used to have the binary choice between paid and unpaid. With more editions, schools have more flexibility. Core licenses with AppSheet, a no-code development platform, are included at no additional cost.
#Google classroom features upgrade#
This upgrade also comes with unlimited Originality Reports, a feature that uses Google Search to help students keep their writing original and avoid plagiarism.įinally, Google Workspace for Education Plus includes everything in the standard edition and the Teaching and Learning Upgrade with the further addition of customizable Cloud Search as well as the ability to hold meetings of up to 500 participants, sync rosters directly to Classroom and use document approvals. These include breakout rooms, polls and Q&As in Google Meet, along with the ability to hold meetings with up to 250 participants. In addition, there’s now the Google Workspace for Education Standard upgrade, which includes a security center to mitigate threats and advanced device and app management solutions.Īnother new edition, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, adds premium engagement features to the Fundamentals version.
#Google classroom features free#
There’s still the free version for education, known as Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals, which offers Google’s suite of collaboration and communication tools, including Classroom, Sheets, Docs, Meet and Gmail.
