Google Workspace Updates: Education Edition

Making Google Classroom video meetings easier and more secure

Monday, October 4, 2021

What’s changing We’ve added several new features to Google Meet in Classroom, making it 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, so no unintended participants join the meetings.
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Who’s impacted Teachers and student end users

Why it matters

These features make it easier for teachers to manage meetings, help prevent unintended meeting participants from joining meetings, and generally help meetings run more smoothly. Overall, teachers and students will have a smoother and more secure experience while using Google Classroom and Google Meet.

Additional details Please note that after a Meet link is generated, if a co-teacher is added or removed, you must regenerate the Meet link to update the host status. We are working on changing this functionality so the host status auto-updates, and hope to implement the change by the end of the year.
use Meet for distance learning.

End users: These features will be ON by default for new meetings created in Google Classroom. Users with existing class Meet links should reset the link to get this updated functionality. Visit the Help Center to learn more about additional service to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Frontline, and Nonprofits, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers

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upcoming release.

Updates

Making Google Classroom video meetings easier and more secure

New Secure Data Connector for encrypted connections to firewalled data

Usage reporting in Google Apps

More Google Video storage in Education Edition

Provisioning API updated

Custom password strength settings for administrators

Google Analytics for Google Apps

OAuth for APIs available with Premier and Education Editions

Google Video for secure private video sharing available in Education Edition

Education Edition available to qualifying non-profit organizations

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