Announcements of the Week
Making Google Classroom video meetings easier and more secure
The Class Meet link is now accessible on the side of the class stream, so students can easily join and teachers can manage the link from the stream; students will be directed to a waiting room until a teacher has officially joined the class Meet link; guests not on the class roster will have to “ask to join” and be admitted by the teacher before they can participate; all designated co-teachers for a class will automatically be co-hosts in the meeting. Available as a core service to Google Workspace Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Education Plus. Read more.
Control whether students can unenroll themselves from classes
We’re adding an Admin console setting which will enable admins to control whether students can unenroll from classes. If turned on, it will prevent students from unenrolling themselves from classes. A teacher or admin would have to unenroll them from the class instead. Available as a core service to Google Workspace Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Education Plus. Read more.
View richer information about your coworkers directly in the sidebar for Google Chat, Calendar, Docs, and more
You can now find and view additional information about people within your organization, your Contacts, and more across additional Google Workspace products. Read more.
Create meeting notes in Google Calendar
You can now quickly start and share a meeting notes document for your Calendar events. Read more.
Configure member restrictions for groups, available in open beta
We’re adding group level controls that will allow admins to restrict group memberships based on: Internal or external members and member type (service account, user, group). This feature is available as an open beta to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Standard, Education Plus, and Cloud Identity Premium customers. Read more.
Bringing hand raising to Google Meet hardware devices
Last year, we announced the ability to virtually raise your hand in Google Meet to enhance interaction without disrupting the flow of the conversation. We are now bringing this feature to all Google Meet hardware to help bring a more unified experience to hybrid working. Available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Education Plus, Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Nonprofits, as well as G Suite Business customers. Read more.
Consolidate Google Workspace Essentials accounts for your domain
You can now perform a “domain-takeover” to take control of all the existing Google Workspace Essentials instances on your domain. Applicable to Google Workspace Essentials and Enterprise Essentials customers only. Read more.
