Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals
A for teaching and learning
Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals is a suite of secure and easy-to-use tools, with AI-driven features to create more personalized and engaging learning experiences provided at no cost.
Plan and differentiate faster with no-cost AI tools for educators
Google Workspace for Education includes access to cutting edge AI tools - like Gemini for Education, NotebookLM, and Gemini in Classroom - at no cost. Advanced capabilities are available with Education Plus and select add-ons.
Gemini for Education
Plan lessons, personalize learning, and tackle everyday tasks faster with help from Gemini, your AI assistant for education.
NotebookLM
Understand anything with NotebookLM, your personal AI research and thinking partner grounded only in the sources you provide.
Automate complex work with intelligent AI agents using Google Workspace Studio
Create, manage, and share AI Agents directly within Google Workspace – powered by Gemini.
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Prepare for every meeting
Show up to every meeting or study group prepared with an agent that summarizes upcoming meeting’s details, critical deadlines, attendees, and attachments and delivers the information to you via Chat.
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Translate action items
Automatically capture meeting action items, translate them, and share them with your team with an agent in Google Workspace. This allows school leaders to generate and distribute translated notes, ensuring everyone is aligned on next steps regardless of language barriers.
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Auto-label priority emails
Save time with an agent that triages your emails to surface critical priorities, extracting actionable tasks and due dates. This allows administrators to instantly isolate time-sensitive compliance deadlines and budget approval requests.
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Save attachments to Drive
Offload manual tasks with an agent that automatically saves email attachments to a Drive folder and records them in Sheets – all without leaving Gmail. Imagine an educator automatically saving signed permission slips to a secure folder while updating a class roster instantly.
Prepare for every meeting
Show up to every meeting or study group prepared with an agent that summarizes upcoming meeting’s details, critical deadlines, attendees, and attachments and delivers the information to you via Chat.
Translate action items
Automatically capture meeting action items, translate them, and share them with your team with an agent in Google Workspace. This allows school leaders to generate and distribute translated notes, ensuring everyone is aligned on next steps regardless of language barriers.
Auto-label priority emails
Save time with an agent that triages your emails to surface critical priorities, extracting actionable tasks and due dates. This allows administrators to instantly isolate time-sensitive compliance deadlines and budget approval requests.
Save attachments to Drive
Offload manual tasks with an agent that automatically saves email attachments to a Drive folder and records them in Sheets – all without leaving Gmail. Imagine an educator automatically saving signed permission slips to a secure folder while updating a class roster instantly.
Foster collaboration across your education community
Make it easy for everyone in your education community to collaborate, communicate, and participate in real time.
Write, edit, and collaborate in real time, add new collaborators, and see changes as they happen in Docs, Sheets, and Slides.
Teach and learn from anywhere with up to 100 participants using reliable and secure video conferencing, and easily communicate with students via built-in chat.
Personalize settings for every student, provide live captions, and use Screen Reader, braille readers, and screen magnification.
Google Docs
Google Meet
Google Docs
Promote productivity with time-saving tools
Save time with easy-to-use tools that automate and simplify tasks.
Create and organize classwork, grade tests, and build permission slips, polls and more with Classroom, Assignments, and Forms.
Use built-in rubrics and comment alongside student work to provide feedback that students can easily find and action on.
Automatically save progress in documents, organize files, and alert guardians on activities, deadlines, or missing work.
Google Classroom
Google Assignments
Google Slides
Strengthen digital safety with privacy and security tools
Use one of the world’s most secure cloud-based communication and productivity suites.
Help keep your institution safe with data practices that support compliance with FERPA, COPPA, GDPR, and more. You retain full intellectual property rights over your data, and Core Services, like Gmail, Calendar, and Classroom, have no ads.
Send secure emails with Gmail, which uses AI-powered protections to block more than 99.9% of spam, phishing and malware from ever reaching you. Safeguard sensitive data in Gmail and Drive with automated data loss prevention (DLP).
Rely on 100 TB of pooled cloud storage, protected in Drive, and retain user data for compliance and discovery in Vault.
Google Drive
Gmail
Google Drive
Choose the right edition for your needs
Use flexible, secure features and AI-driven tools built for educators at no cost with Education Fundamentals, or add the enhanced capabilities you need with Education Plus.
Every edition includes
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Gmail
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Calendar
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Meet
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Classroom
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Docs
Sheets
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Slides
Forms
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Assignments
Admin
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Drive
Gemini
Groups
Sites
Tasks
Notebook LM
1 Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals is available for no charge for qualifying institutions. Learn more.
Get Google AI Pro for Education
Unleash your potential with expanded access to premium AI models and features in Gemini for Education and NotebookLM, and full access to Gemini in the Workspace apps you know and love, like Gmail, Docs, and more.
ADD-ON TO ANY EDITION
Google AI Pro for Education
$15.00*
$20.00
per user/month, one year commitment
or $24.00 per user/month when billed monthly
Your AI assistant for teaching and learning:
Full access to Gemini in Gmail, Meet, Drive, Docs, Slides, Vids, Workspace Studio, Forms, Sheets, and Chat
Accomplish more with expanded access to premium models and features in Gemini for Education
Accelerate learning and knowledge-sharing with expanded access to premium models and features in NotebookLM
Enterprise-grade privacy and security
More proactive security with AI-enhanced data loss prevention
*25% discount for Education Plus customers on purchases of 50-999 licenses with one year commitments. Contact sales or your reseller to learn more about additional discounting on purchases of 1000+ licenses, as well as discounting available for Education Fundamentals customers.
Enhance your edition with powerful add-ons
Purchase add-ons to equip specific individuals at your institution with premium functionality.
Google AI Pro for Education
Google AI Pro for Education provides access to Google Workspace with Gemini, integrating Gemini across the Workspace apps you already know and love, like Docs and Gmail, plus expanded access to premium models and features in the Gemini app and NotebookLM.
Teaching and Learning
Build on the functionality of Education Fundamentals with this premium add-on.
Prepare your students for college, career, and life
Build a thriving educational community that provides students and faculty with the skills and technology they need today—and tomorrow.
75%
of university students prefer Google Workspace as their productivity suite of choice.
Source: Sada Systems, Inc. 23 August 2022
96%
of Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups use Google Workspace.
Resources to help you get started with Education Fundamentals
Learn more about getting started with Google Workspace for Education.
Educator training
This step-by-step training teaches practical strategies for how to use Google tools for in-person learning and classroom management.
Accessibility
Learn about accessibility features designed to help support students who have diverse needs and learning styles.
Sustainability
Learn how Google for Education is taking steps to help you meet your sustainability goals.
Privacy and security
Google for Education helps create a safer digital learning environment for every school, every classroom, and every student.
“Every time I walk into a classroom, students say, ‘we’re going to do something fun today.' The technology allows us so much freedom in our classrooms – it’s unlike anything I’ve seen before.”
Teresa Engler
Technology Coach“Compared to other video conferencing tools, Meet is easier to use, easier to manage, and more secure. It also has features that helped us get buy-in more easily.”
Charley Butcher
Director of Instructional Technology“We love the efficiency of having all of these functions – meetings and classes, recording, and streaming – performed by the one tool.”
Karl Bernard
IT Business Partner“We realized that the sandboxing feature took away that day-to-day anxiety about security. It’s always working for us in the background – a real set-it-and-forget-it tool.”
Philip Vinogradov
Chief Technology Officer
Start today with Google Workspace for Education
Connect and collaborate across your whole education community. Choose the edition that best suits you and your institution.
Find answers to commonly asked questions
Education Fundamentals is available without cost for qualified educational institutions. To determine if you qualify, please visit this page.
Please visit our comparison chart to review the full feature set included in Education Fundamentals.
Education Fundamentals is the new name for G Suite for Education. If your school is using G Suite for Education today, you don’t have to take any action to transition to Education Fundamentals. Your school's experience with our tools, as well as our qualifications for new customers to gain access to them, will remain the same.
Institutions with Education Fundamentals have a shared pool of 100TB of storage, which they can manage and allocate as they see fit. Please reach out to your admin to explore options for additional storage. Please visit our Help Center for more details.
Visit our Help Center for more details on Education Fundamentals.
Add-ons are sold separately and offer premium functionality for specific users within your Google Workspace for Education domain.