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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.
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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.
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NotebookLM
Understand anything with NotebookLM, your personal AI research and thinking partner grounded only in the sources you provide.
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Automate complex work with intelligent AI agents using Google Workspace Studio
Create, manage, and share AI Agents directly within Google Workspace – powered by Gemini.
Prepare for every meeting
Translate action items
Auto-label priority emails
Save attachments to Drive
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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.
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Prepare for every meeting
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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
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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
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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.
Try Workspace Studio
Save attachments to Drive
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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.
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Foster collaboration
Promote productivity
Strengthen digital safety
Foster collaboration
Promote productivity
Strengthen digital safety
Foster collaboration across your education community
Make it easy for everyone in your education community to collaborate, communicate, and participate in real time.
Collaborate with others in real time wherever you work
Write, edit, and collaborate in real time, add new collaborators, and see changes as they happen in Docs, Sheets, and Slides.
Communicate with students, educators, guardians, and administrators from anywhere
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.
Promote equity with an inclusive learning environment
Personalize settings for every student, provide live captions, and use Screen Reader, braille readers, and screen magnification.
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Promote productivity with time-saving tools
Save time with easy-to-use tools that automate and simplify tasks.
Help teachers save time teaching, testing, grading, and organizing
Create and organize classwork, grade tests, and build permission slips, polls and more with Classroom, Assignments, and Forms.
Give transparent, meaningful feedback
Use built-in rubrics and comment alongside student work to provide feedback that students can easily find and action on.
Streamline educator workloads
Automatically save progress in documents, organize files, and alert guardians on activities, deadlines, or missing work.
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Strengthen digital safety with privacy and security tools
Use one of the world’s most secure cloud-based communication and productivity suites.
Trust in rigorous standards for security and compliance
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.
Built-in security with automatic protections
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).
Storage and data retention tools to ensure the school day keeps going
Rely on 100 TB of pooled cloud storage, protected in Drive, and retain user data for compliance and discovery in Vault.
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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.
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Education
Fundamentals
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A suite of innovative features and AI-driven tools to create more personalized and engaging learning experiences on a secure platform.
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Includes teaching and learning essentials:
Gemini for Education and NotebookLM - AI assistants with enterprise-grade data protection
Collaboration with Classroom, Vids, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Gmail, Drive, Meet, Sites, Chat, and Calendar
Security and administrative tools in the Google Admin console
100 TB of pooled cloud storage shared by your organization
Automate everyday work in Google Workspace Studio, the place to design, manage, and share AI agents
Access to Gemini in Classroom, a suite of AI tools for teaching and learning
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Includes features from Education Fundamentals, plus:
Advanced security and analytics to help you proactively protect your community from digital threats
Additional premium and AI-driven teaching and learning tools, including Gemini in Docs, Sheets, Slides, Vids and Forms, and higher limits in Workspace Studio to help educators enhance instructional impact
Personalized Cloud Search for your domain to make information accessible and easy to find
Additional Drive storage
Higher limits, increased number of sources, and access to the latest Gemini models in NotebookLM
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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.
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Google AI Pro for Education
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$20.00
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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
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*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.
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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.
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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.
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“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.”
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“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
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“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.”
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Chief Technology Officer
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What is the price of this edition?
Education Fundamentals is available without cost for qualified educational institutions. To determine if you qualify, please visit this page.
What’s included in Education Fundamentals?
Please visit our comparison chart to review the full feature set included in Education Fundamentals.
How is Education Fundamentals different from G Suite for Education?
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.
How much storage does Education Fundamentals offer?
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.
Where can I learn more?
Visit our Help Center for more details on Education Fundamentals.
What’s an add-on?
Add-ons are sold separately and offer premium functionality for specific users within your Google Workspace for Education domain.
What add-ons are available for my institution?
Teaching and Learning, Google AI Pro for Education, Endpoint Education Upgrade and Workspace Additional Storage.
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