Google Workspace Wednesday

Issue #65 / 28-AUG-24

Upload additional types of documents to Gemini for insights and analysis

Google Workspace users with a Gemini Business, Enterprise, Education or Education Premium license can now upload a variety of files from Google Drive or locally from your device into Gemini. Gemini can use uploaded files to gain context and analyze your content. In turn, this can help enhance your understanding, research, and writing through summarization of complex subject matter, identification of trends and insights, and recommendations for improving writing and document organization.

Updates on how Google is using AI to support students and educators

Every teacher and student deserves to have access to meaningful educational experiences and AI is helping make that possible. As part of Google’s commitment to make AI broadly accessible, it is providing a variety of tools for educators and learners to use in the classroom. Google is taking a number of steps to ensure it is bringing this technology to students responsibly, partnering with learning science experts, testing with youth advisory panels and committing to add extra data protection for all education users free of charge.

Picture-in-picture in Google Meet will now open automatically when switching tabs

Have you ever lost your video screen after switching to another tab? Google Meet’s picture-in-picture feature helps to solve that problem, but now it’s even easier. Picture-in-picture mode will automatically trigger when you switch tabs during a meeting. Previously, you had to manually turn on this feature during a meeting. This simple, yet impactful update, will help ensure your meeting stays visible and accessible if you need to switch tabs to take notes, view meeting related documents, and more.

Business Starter customers will soon have access to shared drives

Last year, Google announced that it is updating the storage model in Business Starter from per-user storage to pooled storage. Now, organizations with Business Starter will officially have access to shared drives starting mid-September. With this change, Business Starter users will be able to create shared drives and add members, files, and folders. However, certain admin-level and security controls—like the ability to control access to the items in a shared drive—will not be included in the fundamental version of shared drives for Business Starter.

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