Google Workspace Updates: sausio 2024

Pin chat messages in Google Meet

2024 m. sausio 31 d., trečiadienis

What’s changing You can now pin messages to the top of the meeting chat. Pinned messages will appear for all users, even if they join the meeting after the message was initially sent. This makes it easy to ensure that important messages - like links to presentations - are displayed prominently and easily accessible by meeting participants.

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
End users:

Meeting participants can pin and unpin their own messages. Meeting hosts can unpin anyone’s message.
You can pin a message by hovering over it in the chat window and selecting the pin icon. Visit the Help Center to learn more about sending chat messages.

Use the pin icon to pin or or unpin a message.

Rollout pace

Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on January 31, 2024

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google accounts

Resources

Google Help: Send chat messages to video meeting participants

Shareable class templates and classwork in Google Classroom are now generally available

2024 m. sausio 31 d., trečiadienis

What’s changingLast year, we announced a Google Classroom beta that simplifies lesson planning with shareable class templates and classwork. We’re excited to announce that this is now globally available for Google Workspace for Education Plus customers in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese.
Curriculum leads and verified teachers can now share links to high-quality classes and class templates so other educators in their organization can preview and import classwork to an existing class or to a new class. This will provide educators with ideas for instructional design and enable them stay up-to-date with the best materials.

Who’s impacted End users
Why you’d use it This feature enables curriculum leads and teachers to easily distribute standardized curricula or classroom content to others in their organization. As a result, fellow educators can easily preview, select, and import high-quality classwork into their classes.

easily preview, select, and import high-quality classwork into their classes.

Additional details

Student information, such as assignment submissions, comments, and grades, will not be visible when previewing a shared class.
Imported class materials will be saved in draft mode for the selected class.

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature, however, Admins should make sure the following is set up for end users:

In order to share classes, educators must have a Google Workspace for Education Plus license assigned to them.
To preview and import classwork from shared classes, educators must be verified teachers.

End users:

Rollout

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on January 31, 2024

Availability

Available to Education Plus

Resources

Improving the Google Calendar appointment scheduling experience with new features

2024 m. sausio 30 d., antradienis

What’s changingLast year, we introduced new appointment scheduling features to help you set more relevant meeting durations and tailor your calendar view to match your preferences. In our effort to further improve upon the current appointment scheduling experience, we’re adding the options to:

Add up to 20 co-hosts to your appointment schedule during the setup process so you can host appointments with others.

Add up to 20 co-hosts to your appointment schedule

Create appointment schedules on secondary calendars. Prior to this update, you could only create appointment schedules on your own primary calendar. Now, you can create the schedule and receive booked events on secondary calendars as well. This can be particularly useful when multiple users, such as a team, need access to the same set of office hours. Everyone with permission to use the secondary calendar can make changes to the schedule and view incoming bookings. The appointment schedule can check the secondary calendar for availability, but cannot check the availability of all users with access to the secondary calendar.

Create appointment schedules on secondary calendars

Expand the delegate access functionality to appointment scheduling. Currently, delegate access enables you to let someone else, such as an administrative assistant, access your Google Workspace account to send mail or manage calendar invitations and events on your behalf. Now, the person with delegate access can edit or delete your appointment schedules on your primary calendar.
Select “Check calendars for availability”, which enables you to decide whether or not you want to check the availability of calendars added to the appointment schedule. Unchecking this setting means even if there is a conflict on one of the calendars, users will still be able to book that time. This may be useful if you want to prioritize incoming bookings over existing meetings.

Select “Check calendars for availability”, which enables you to decide whether or not you want to check the availability of calendars added to the appointment schedule.

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
End users:

Co-hosts calendars are not automatically checked for availability. You can select your co-host's calendar in the "Check calendars for availability" section to have their availability considered (as long as you are subscribed to that calendar).

Visit the Help Center to learn more about creating an appointment schedule and customizing your appointment availability.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on January 30, 2024
Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on February 12, 2024

Availability

Co-hosts, secondary calendars and delegate access:

Available to Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Education Plus, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Nonprofits

Check Calendars for availability:

Available to Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Education Plus, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, Nonprofits, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts

Resources

Local data storage exports your organization's Workspace data into the geographic location of your choice, launching in beta

2024 m. sausio 29 d., pirmadienis

What’s changing Today, we’re introducing Google Workspace’s new feature, local data storage. This feature allows admins to export their organization’s Workspace data into the geographic location or locations of their choice. These are the available options for this feature:

User data: Specify users, groups, organizational units or your entire organization
Export frequency: Opt for continuous or one-time exports
Storage settings: Specify the geographic location of the Google Cloud storage bucket that the data is exported to, who can access the data, and more settings within the Google Cloud storage bucket.

When creating a new export, you can choose to export your data continuously into your own storage bucket

Who’s impacted

Admins

Why you’d use it

This update allows admins to export their organization's Workspace data into their own Google Cloud Storage (GCS) bucket located in a geographic location of their choice to meet their data sovereignty, compliance, and data archival needs.

Getting started

Admins:

This feature is available for Google Workspace Enterprise Plus customers with the Assured Controls add-on. Eligible Google Workspace customers can use this form to apply for the beta or contact us directly.
Visit the Help Center to learn more about exporting all of your organization’s data, and exporting data by organizational unit, group, or user. Additionally, you can use the Help Center to learn more about allowing your users to download their data.

Rollout pace

We are currently accepting beta sign-ups for this feature.

Availability

Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus customers with Assured Controls add-on

If you don’t currently have the Assured Controls add-on, please contact us or reach out to your sales rep for more information.

Resources

For Google Meet Hardware, ‘Auto-Update Expiration (AUE)’ will now be referred to as 'end of Meet support'

2024 m. sausio 29 d., pirmadienis

What’s changingWe’re making changes to the terminology that refers to when a Meet hardware device is no longer supported:

‘End of Meet support date’ replaces Auto-Update Expiration (AUE) in the Meet hardware Help Center.

The Admin console will show ‘end of Meet support’ instead of ‘EOL (end of life)’ in both device information and fleet overview pages.

The field name for “end of life” in Admin console’s CSV downloads will change from “eolDate” to “endOfMeetSupportDate”

End of Meet support as indicated in the device information page

End of Meet support as indicated in the Google Meet hardware fleet overview

Additional detailsThe end of Meet support date for Intel 10th generation devices have been extended from June 2028 to June 2029 to reflect their continued availability.
Getting started

Admins: Visit the Help Center to learn more about the Google Meet hardware auto-update policy and end of Meet support.

End users: There is no end user impact or action required.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on Jan 29, 2024

Availability

This update impacts all Google Workspace customers with Meet hardware devices.

Resources

Google Workspace Admin Help: Google Meet hardware auto-update policy

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap - January 26, 2024

2024 m. sausio 26 d., penktadienis

2 New updatesUnless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both Rapid and Scheduled Release at the same time. If not, each stage of rollout should take no more than 15 business days to complete.
Updated List / Grid toggle now available in Google Drive To make the List / Grid toggle more visible in Google Drive, we’ve introduced a new split-button toggle with the updated Google Material Design 3. This toggle is now available across all Drive web pages, making it easier for you to switch between viewing modes based on your preference. | The List / Grid toggle is now available to all Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts. | Learn more about viewing and reordering your files and folders.

Jump to where your collaborator is while editing in Google Sites

When working on content in Google Docs or Slides, you can go to wherever your collaborator is working within the document or presentation by clicking their avatar in the top right corner. This week, we’re excited to announce a similar feature in Google Sites. Now, when a Site editor clicks on a collaborator’s avatar, they will jump to the selected tile of the clicked collaborator. If the collaborator is on a different page, the site editor will be taken to that page. | Rolling out to Rapid Release domains now; launch to Scheduled Release domains planned for February 12, 2024. | Available to all Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts. | Learn more about following a collaborator on Google Sites.

Previous announcements

The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog earlier this week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

Manage reported Google Chat content from the new moderation tool in the Admin console

We’re introducing a centralized location for reviewing and taking action on reported Google Chat content in the Admin console under Apps > Google Workspace > Moderation, alongside the email quarantine tool for Gmail. | Google Chat content reporting and moderation is available to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Standard and Education Plus customers only. | Learn more about reported Google Chat content.

Closed caption support in Google Meet expands to an additional thirty-one languages

We’ve expanded support for closed captioning to include additional languages. | Learn more about captions & translated captions in Google Meet.

Improving space creation in Google Chat

We are making two improvements to the space creation flow in Google Chat: preventing duplicate space names and providing a method to configure spaces for specific use cases. | Learn more about space creation in Google Chat.

Completed rollouts

The features below completed their rollouts to Rapid Release domains, Scheduled Release domains, or both. Please refer to the original blog posts for additional details.

Rapid Release Domains:

Scheduled Release Domains:

View documents in paginated mode on Android devices
Improvements to Google Meet ultra-low latency live streaming (Meet in Gmail, Android & iOS)

Rapid and Scheduled Release Domains:

For a recap of announcements in the past six months, check out What’s new in Google Workspace (recent releases).

Improving space creation in Google Chat

2024 m. sausio 25 d., ketvirtadienis

What’s changingWe are making two improvements to the space creation flow in Google Chat: preventing duplicate space names and providing a method to configure spaces for specific use cases.
In order to prevent duplicate space names in Google Chat, you will no longer be able to create a space within your company’s domain if the space name already exists. Similar to the experience in Gmail and Google Groups, if a space name already exists, an error message will appear. The same will happen if a user tries to edit the name of a space to another name that already exists.
This feature will not immediately apply to space names created via Chat API. Starting June 3, 2024, spaces created via Chat API will also be subject to this error.

Starting this week, you will also notice an updated user interface when creating a new space in Chat. In addition to easily determining access settings, you can now designate the space for Collaboration (useful for discussing a topic or team project) or for Announcements (helpful for facilitating one-way controlled communication such as company-wide updates).

After creating the space, an updated welcome page will appear with contextual options that provide users with next steps depending on the space type selected. For a Collaboration space, users get the options to add members, share files, assign tasks and create a welcome message that appears when a new member joins the space. You will also have the ability to toggle “History on” and will see contextual suggestions for eligible apps (based on popular apps in your domain) to explore in Marketplace and add into the space. For an Announcement space, users will get the option to add groups, manage space permissions and add guidelines on how to use the space.

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
End users:

Developers: Update apps created via Chat API to ensure they do not conflict with this new error code for duplicate space names by June 3, 2024.

Rollout pace Duplicate space name

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on January 25, 2024

New space creation flow
Web:

Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on January 25, 2024
Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on February 12, 2024

Mobile:

This feature will be available on mobile by the end of Q1 2024

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers and Google Workspace Individual subscribers

Resources

Closed caption support in Google Meet expands to an additional thirty-one languages

2024 m. sausio 23 d., antradienis

What’s changingWe’ve expanded support for closed captioning to include the following additional languages:

-Afrikaans

-Albanian

-Amharic

-Armenian

-Australian English

-Basque

-Burmese

-Catalan

-English (India)

-English (Philippines)

-Estonian

-Farsi

-Filipino

-Galician

-Georgian

-Hungarian

-Japanese

-Latvian

-Macedonian

-Mongolian

-Nepali

-Norwegian

-Sinhala

-Slovak

-Slovenian

-Sundanese

-Tamil (India)

-Telugu (India)

-Urdu

-Uzbek

- Zulu

You’ll notice that the newly supported languages are denoted with a “beta” tag as we continue to optimize performance.

Getting started

Admins: There is no impact for this update.
End users: These languages will be available by default. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using closed captions in Google Meet.

Rollout pace

This update is available now for all users.

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google Accounts

Resources

Google Help: Use captions & translated captions in Google Meet

Manage reported Google Chat content from the new moderation tool in the Admin console

2024 m. sausio 22 d., pirmadienis

What’s changingWe’re introducing a centralized location for reviewing and taking action on reported Google Chat content in the Admin console under Apps > Google Workspace > Moderation, alongside the email quarantine tool for Gmail. Here can be found an overarching view of active and resolved reports, as well as additional information and context about reported messages, allowing for more informed decisions to be made.
Super admins will have access to the moderation tool and can also assign users the new “Moderate Chat content report” privilege. The new privilege can be assigned to users in your organization who are best suited to review Chat content, helping to reduce the burden on super admins.

Who’s impacted

Admins and designated moderators

Why it’s important

Google Chat is key to accelerating productivity and collaboration — content reporting and moderation helps ensure that information exchanged across Chat is safe and appropriate. When a report is submitted by users, the moderation tool can be used to:

See all reports associated with the message (including those resolved in the past).

Note that resolved reports will be removed from the Moderation tool after 180 days.

Review the edit history of a message and conversation transcript, including up to five messages posted before the reported message.
Conversation details provide information about the type of conversation (direct messages, group direct messages, or Spaces) with number of participants, space managers, guidelines, etc.

Using this information, combined with organization policies, admins and moderators can choose the best course of action, whether that be deleting a specific message or deleting an entire space before resolving the report. Additionally, moderators can add comments to the report for prosperity should the content require further auditing in the future.

The moderation tool can be accessed in the Admin console by selecting Apps > Google Workspace > Moderation.

Upon selecting a reported message, you’ll see a variety of information including conversation details and other reports for the message.

You can select “Show more” from the “Reported message” section to view up to five messages sent prior to the reported message.

Additional details

As part of this change, the moderation tool will also include a tab for managing quarantined Gmail messages. Visit our Help Center for more information regarding setting up email quarantine and the admin privileges required to manage quarantined messages. The Gmail tab is available to all Google Workspace customers.

Getting started

Super Admins: The moderation tool will be available by default and can be accessed in the Admin console by going to Apps > Google Workspace > Moderation or directly from this link: admin.google.com/ac/moderation. To view Chat content in the Moderation tool, you must enable content reporting for Google Chat. You can also assign the “Moderate Chat content report” privilege to other users in your organization.

Rollout pace

Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) beginning on January 22, 2024

Availability

Google Chat content reporting and moderation is available to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Standard and Education Plus customers

Resources

Google Workspace Admin Help: Set up content moderation for Chat
Google Workspace Admin Help: Set up email quarantine
Google Help: Report messages in Google Chat

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap - January 19, 2024

2024 m. sausio 19 d., penktadienis

2 New updatesUnless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both Rapid and Scheduled Release at the same time. If not, each stage of rollout should take no more than 15 business days to complete.
Unsubscribe from emails on Gmail more easily We know managing unwanted emails is a source of frustration for many users. That’s why we announced new guidelines for bulk senders a few months ago to help users stay safe. Now, we’re introducing new ways to make it even easier to unsubscribe from unwanted emails in Gmail on web and mobile by:

Adding the unsubscribe button to the hover actions in the threadlist on web. When the unsubscribe button is clicked, Gmail sends a http request or an email to the sender to remove your email address from their mailing list.

Moving the unsubscribe button from the three dot menu to appear more prominently in your email on your Android and iOS devices.

These features are now available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google Accounts on web and iOS devices, and are rolling out now on Android devices at an extended pace (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility). | Learn more about unsubscribing from emails and reporting spam in Gmail.

Updating the mobile experience on Android tablets and foldable devices

Last year, we announced enhancements to the Google Drive mobile experience on Android tablets. This included several modernizations, such as shifting the navigation bar to the side of the Drive app. Similarly, we’ve moved the navigation bar for Gmail to the side to optimize the experience on tablets and foldable devices. This migration will make it easier for users to switch tabs in Gmail. | Available now to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google Accounts.

Previous announcements

The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog earlier this week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

Launch the Lucidspark whiteboarding app directly from Google Meet Series One Board 65 and Desk 27 devices

By the end of the month, Lucidspark by Lucid Software can be launched directly from Google Meet Series One Board 65 and Desk 27 devices. With this integration, users will be able to share and participate in a Lucidspark whiteboard session in a Meet call, either initiated from the Series One Board 65 and Desk 27 or a remote participant on the call. | Learn more about the Lucidspark whiteboarding app.

Use comments & action items on your client-side encrypted Google Docs

You can now collaborate with others on client-side encrypted Google Docs to add, edit, reply, filter, or delete comments. You can also assign action items to yourself or others. This added functionality helps bring parity to unencrypted docs while also ensuring your data is behind encryption keys you control, including the identity provider used to access those keys. | Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Standard and Education Plus customers only. | Learn more about CSE comments & action items in Docs.

Combine multiple video effects, improve lighting and audio in Google Meet

We’re launching three new features to personalize your appearance in Google Meet. | Learn more about combining multiple video effects on web and mobile, studio lighting on web and studio sound.

Join meetings as a guest without a Google account on mobile devices

You can now quickly join a meeting as a guest without signing into a personal or work Google account or creating a new Google account. This functionality already exists for meetings on the web and, by expanding to mobile, guests now have greater flexibility for joining Meet meetings on the go. | Learn more about joining meetings as a guest.

Star messages in Google Chat on mobile

Last November, we introduced starred on web, an additional shortcut in the redesigned Google Chat navigation panel that helps you stay on top of your most important messages. We’re excited to announce this is now available on Android and iOS mobile devices. | Learn more about starring messages.

Completed rollouts

The features below completed their rollouts to Rapid Release domains, Scheduled Release domains, or both. Please refer to the original blog posts for additional details.

Rapid Release Domains:

Easy access to people, documents, building blocks and more in Google Docs

Rapid and Scheduled Release Domains:

Access Google Vault audit logs alongside other Workspace audit logs
Set client-side encryption as the default mode for new emails, events, and files
Use “Profile Discovery” to display basic information only in search results, available in open beta
Certain Google Meet hardware information will no longer be accessible on the admin console
Introducing a new homepage view in Google Drive
Introducing a new mobile experience for Google Chat (Android)
Version history limits for Apps Script projects
Using functions in Connected Sheets for BigQuery
Combine multiple video effects, improve lighting and audio in Google Meet (Studio sound Dial-in availability)
Join meetings as a guest without a Google account on mobile devices (iOS)

For a recap of announcements in the past six months, check out What’s new in Google Workspace (recent releases).

Star messages in Google Chat on mobile

2024 m. sausio 19 d., penktadienis

What’s changingLast November, we introduced starred on web, an additional shortcut in the redesigned Google Chat navigation panel that helps you stay on top of your most important messages. Today, we’re excited to announce this is now available on Android and iOS mobile devices.

Getting started

Rollout pace Android:

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on January 19, 2024

iOS:

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on January 16, 2024

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google Accounts

Resources

Join meetings as a guest without a Google account on mobile devices

2024 m. sausio 17 d., trečiadienis

What’s changing You can now quickly join a meeting as a guest without signing into a personal or work Google account or creating a new Google account. This functionality already exists for meetings on the web and, by expanding to mobile, guests now have greater flexibility for joining Meet meetings on the go.

To join as a guest, you need to be on the Calendar invite for the meeting or have been provided the meeting code or the meeting link beforehand. Before you join the meeting, you’ll be prompted to enter your name and “knock” (aka ask to join the meeting) to be admitted. Once a meeting host or co-host accepts your knock, you’ll jump right into the meeting.

Getting started

Admins: Allowing meeting guests can be turned on or off at the domain level. Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing Meet settings.
End users:

Meeting hosts: You can also set your Meeting access type as “Open”, meaning anyone with a meeting link can join your meetings — no one has to knock.
Guests: Visit the Help Center to learn more about joining a video meeting without a Google account.

Rollout pace

iOS: Available now.
Android: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on January 17, 2024

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts.

Resources

Google Workspace Admin Help: Manage Meet settings
Google Help: Join a video meeting without a Google Account
Google Help: Start or schedule a Google Meet video meeting

Combine multiple video effects, improve lighting and audio in Google Meet

2024 m. sausio 17 d., trečiadienis

What’s changing We’re launching three new features to personalize your appearance in Google Meet. Specifically, we’re adding:

Combine multiple video effects on web and mobile: You can now combine a background effect with a filter effect to create a more dynamic, fun experience. This gives you the flexibility to find the right mix of effects that will represent you best during your meetings. The new layer icon on your self view tile can be used to keep track of which effects you’re using and remove one or all effects at once.

Combining effects using Google Meet on the web

Combining effects using Google Meet on a mobile device

You'll also notice a brand new user interface for effects. The streamlined design makes it easier for you to discover and apply various features. Specifically, you’ll notice effects grouped by category:

Backgrounds: Backgrounds are now organized into categories based on the type of scene you are looking for, such as new backgrounds, blurred backgrounds, your uploaded or company uploaded background, and more.
Filters: Sort through filters by category, including funny filters, accessories, costumes and characters.
Appearance: Adjust your appearance as needed by improving your lighting, framing, and video quality.

Studio lighting on web: Available with the Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise add-on, the new studio lighting feature can be used to simulate studio-quality lighting. You’ll be able to adjust the lighting position, brightness, and color to look your best. Note that for this initial launch an eligible device is required to use this feature.

For illustrative purposes only — to use Studio Lighting, go to Apply visual effects > Appearance > Studio lighting.

Studio sound: This feature will automatically improve poor audio quality from typical bluetooth headsets and dial-in participants by using AI to recreate higher audio frequencies. Currently, this feature is available for meetings on the web and dial-in, with support for the mobile Meet app coming in the coming weeks — we’ll share an update on the Workspace Updates blog at that time. This feature is available with the Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise add-on.

Studio sound will use AI to improve audio quality.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Combining multiple video effects

Web availability:

Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on January 17, 2024
Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on January 29, 2024

Mobile availability:

Rapid Release domains: Full rollout (1-3 days for feature visibility) starting on January 16, 2024 for iOS and Android devices.
Scheduled Release domains:

For Android devices: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on January 17, 2024
For iOS devices: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on January 17, 2024

Studio lighting

Web availability:

Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on January 17, 2024
Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on January 29, 2024

Studio sound

Dial-in availability: Available now.
Web availability: Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1-3 days for feature visibility) beginning on January 17, 2024

Availability

Combine multiple video effects:

Available to all users. The availability of specific video effects is based on your specific Google Workspace edition and admin policy

Studio lighting and sound:

Available for customers with the Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise add-on. Note that for this initial launch an eligible device is required to use Studio lighting.

Resources

Use comments & action items on your client-side encrypted Google Docs

2024 m. sausio 16 d., antradienis

What’s changing You can now collaborate with others on client-side encrypted Google Docs to add, edit, reply, filter, or delete comments. You can also assign action items to yourself or others. This added functionality helps bring parity to unencrypted docs while also ensuring your data is behind encryption keys you control, including the identity provider used to access those keys.

This feature is available as an open beta, which means you can use it without enrolling in a specific beta program.

This feature is currently only available for Docs —support for Sheets and Slides will be coming in the future.

Additional details

Note that when sharing encrypted files, you can only assign “viewer” or “editor” permissions. “Commenter” permission is not supported. Viewers can view comments.

Comments are saved each time the document is autosaved. If you restore the document to a previous version, the comments added to the document in that version are also restored.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Standard and Education Plus customers

Resources

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Updates

Pin chat messages in Google Meet

Shareable class templates and classwork in Google Classroom are now generally available

Improving the Google Calendar appointment scheduling experience with new features

Local data storage exports your organization's Workspace data into the geographic location of your choice, launching in beta

For Google Meet Hardware, ‘Auto-Update Expiration (AUE)’ will now be referred to as 'end of Meet support'

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap - January 26, 2024

Improving space creation in Google Chat

Closed caption support in Google Meet expands to an additional thirty-one languages

Manage reported Google Chat content from the new moderation tool in the Admin console

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap - January 19, 2024

Star messages in Google Chat on mobile

Join meetings as a guest without a Google account on mobile devices

Combine multiple video effects, improve lighting and audio in Google Meet

Use comments & action items on your client-side encrypted Google Docs

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