Major Google for Education Licensing and Price Changes
Google announced major changes to both licensing and pricing for paid Google for Education editions. These changes will impact most schools after February 1, 2026, and will affect some schools as soon as October 1, 2025. Learn about the licensing changes, pricing changes, and timing for the change, along with general recommendations based on your current subscription and plan.
Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini app
There is a new way to bring your ideas to life in the Gemini app: personalized, illustrated storybooks complete with read-aloud narration. Simply describe any story you can imagine, and Gemini generates a unique 10-page book with custom art and audio. Bring your vision to life in any style imaginable: from pixel art and comics to claymation, crochet, and even coloring books, in more than 45 languages.
Introducing Video Overviews and upgrades to the Studio panel in NotebookLM
Since introducing Audio Overviews last year, NotebookLM users have created podcast-like, detailed summaries of key topics from their uploaded sources. Now, Google is introducing Video Overviews. Users can turn documents, slides, charts and more into engaging explainer videos that are narrated by an AI voice. Video Overviews are expertly-crafted visual walkthroughs of the content you provide, pulling in images, diagrams, quotes, and numbers from your source material.
NotebookLM is now available to all education users
Google is expanding support for the NotebookLM for Google Workspace for Education users of all ages. NotebookLM is an AI-powered thinking partner that helps you understand anything. Educators and students can add their lesson plans, education standards, lecture notes and/or course readings to get real-time summaries, guided lesson plans, discussion questions, quizzes and more.
Automatic Room Check-in in Google Meet with Proximity Detection
To simplify the process of joining Google Meet meetings for those using companion mode on laptops within a conference room, Google is introducing automatic room check-in via ultrasound proximity detection. To automatically check you in, the green room uses your laptop’s microphone to detect an ultrasound signal from the conference room hardware, streamlining the process and eliminating unnecessary steps.
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