Google Workspace Wednesday

Issue #134 / 07-JAN-26

Generate podcast-style audio lessons in Google Classroom using Gemini

Educators can now generate and share audio lessons in Google Classroom to help students engage more deeply with instructional content and support various learning modalities. Educators will be able to customize the target grade, topic, and learning objectives to ensure the content is a customized companion to other aspects of the topic they are teaching.

Now generally available: Migrate files from Dropbox to Google Drive

Google previously announced an open beta for migrating files from Dropbox to Google Drive in the New Data Migration service. This functionality is now generally available. Admins can use the new service to migrate data from Dropbox business accounts, including files, folders and associated permissions, helping organizations transition to Google Workspace quickly and easily.

Manage Apple Intelligence Writing Tools in Google Workspace iOS apps

With Apple's Writing Tools, users have options to proofread, rewrite, or summarize text. To offer additional data protection and mitigate risk on iOS devices, Google is adding a dedicated setting in the Admin console. When this setting is turned off by an admin, the "Writing Tools" option will not appear when a user selects text within participating Workspace apps on their iOS device.