Google Workspace Updates: birželio 2024

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap - June 28, 2024

2024 m. birželio 28 d., penktadienis

We’re introducing a simple way for Workspace end users to request a Gemini license from their admins on the Gemini for Google Workspace homepage. To send this request, Workspace end users simply select ‘Get Started’ from the Gemini for Google Workspace marketing page, then click on ‘Ask my admin’ and complete the request form. Super admins will receive this request by email, and from there they can choose to purchase a Gemini license in the Admin console.

Admins will have the option to disable these requests prior to this update. Admins can do so in the Admin console by going to Account > Account Settings > Gemini for Google Workspace, and deselecting the ‘User-requested upgrades’ setting— use this article in our Help Center for more information. | Please note this is only available for customers in the US and India with fewer than 300 licenses. | Rolling out now to Rapid Release domains and Scheduled Release domains. | Learn more about Gemini for Workspace, including our recent Gemini for Workspace announcements.

Multi-account support now available for Google Keep on large screen Android devices

Last year, we introduced multi-instance support for Google Keep on large screen Android devices. To take this a step further, we’re now allowing multiple accounts to be used at the same time on the same device in Keep. Having two windows open side-by-side enables better insight into your notes and gives you more ways to work with, display, and organize your content across multiple accounts. | Rolling out now to Rapid Release domains and Scheduled Release domains. | Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts.

Updates for Gemini for Workspace usage reports in the Admin consoleRecently, we introduced Gemini for Workspace usage reports in the Admin console. Beginning today, we’re introducing additional updates for these reports:

Usage reports are now available for Gemini Education and Gemini Education Premium customers.
Admins can filter usage reports by OU and Groups.

Admins can access these reports via Admin console under Menu > Generative AI > Gemini reports. | Also available to Google Workspace customers with the Gemini Enterprise and Gemini Business add-ons. | Rolling out now to Rapid Release domains and Scheduled Release domains. | Learn more about reviewing Gemini usage in your organization.

Updates for Gemini for Workspace usage reports in the Admin console

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.

Google Classroom add-ons now generally available to Google Workspace developers

Classroom add-ons generally available to all developers. These complement other Classroom API features and let educators and students experience content without having to leave Google Classroom. | Learn more about Classroom add-ons.

Manage access to eSignature in Google Workspace

The admin control for Google Workspace’s eSignature feature is live for select Google Workspace editions. Admins can control users’ ability to request signatures before eSignature rolls out to end users in the coming weeks. | Learn more about eSignature in Google Workspace.

Gemini in the side panel of Gmail, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, and Google Drive is rolling out now

We’re pleased to announce the general availability of Gemini in the side panel of Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. Learn more about the side panel in Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive and Gmail.

Bringing our Learning Interoperability Tools under one umbrella: Google Workspace LTI™

Going forward, all Learning Interoperability Tools, including Assignments LTI™, and Google Drive LTI™, will be consolidated into a single category: Google Workspace LTI™. | Learn more about Google Workspace LTI™.

Introducing Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ for Google Workspace

Currently, Google Workspace admins can turn Colab on for their users, allowing them to access the free version of Colab. This week, we announced the Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ standalone subscriptions for Google Workspace customers. | Learn more about Colab for Google Workspace.

Grading periods API for Google Classroom is now available in Developer Preview

Grading period endpoints and capabilities in the Classroom API are now available through the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program. | Learn more about the Grading periods API.

Additional admin space management capabilities in Google Chat API are now available in Developer Preview Program

We’re pleased to announce more space management capabilities, such as the ability to look up details about specific space, update space details, and more. | Learn more about admin space management capabilities in Google Chat API.

Improving calculation speed in Google Sheets

We recently announced the latest advancements in Sheets, including that we’ve doubled the speed of calculation in Google Sheets on Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers. This update can improve the speed of actions like formulas, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and more, regardless of your file size. | Learn more about Sheets calculations.

Add up to 500,000 members to spaces in Google Chat

To provide greater flexibility and inclusiveness for larger organizations, we’re excited to announce that starting today, spaces can now have up to 500,000 members. | Learn more about large spaces in 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:

Comments and action items in client-side encrypted Google Docs is now generally available

Scheduled Release Domains:

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).

Add up to 500,000 members to spaces in Google Chat

2024 m. birželio 26 d., trečiadienis

What’s changingShortly after introducing announcements in Google Chat last year, we increased the number of users you can add to a space from 8,000 to 50,000. To provide greater flexibility and inclusiveness for larger organizations, we’re excited to announce that starting today, spaces can now have up to 500,000 members.

spaces can now have up to 500,000 members.

If you are adding a Google Group as a member to set up large spaces, the table below shows how long it will typically take to populate this space.

Who’s impacted End users

Why it’s important Companies can now create org-wide spaces to announce news and updates to their employees, helping ensure broader reachability and measurability of their communications.

Additional details We’ve introduced features to enhance membership management, which is particularly important now with larger spaces in Google Chat. Some examples include:

The ability to manage reported Google Chat content from the new moderation tool in the Admin console
Several updates for the Space Management Tool in the Admin console, including an improved user interface and additional management capabilities
The option to add Google Groups to spaces in Google Chat
Data loss prevention for Google Chat

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more about Google Chat participant limits and optimizing Chat spaces for your organization.
End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about spaces and group conversations and managing your space settings.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on June 26, 2024

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers

Resources

Google Workspace Admin Help: Google Chat known limitations
Google Workspace Admin Help: Optimize Spaces for your organization
Google Help: About spaces and group conversations
Google Help: Manage space settings

Improving calculation speed in Google Sheets

2024 m. birželio 26 d., trečiadienis

What’s changingWe recently announced the latest advancements in Sheets, including that we’ve doubled the speed of calculation in Google Sheets on Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers. This update can improve the speed of actions like formulas, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and more, regardless of your file size.

Who’s impacted End users

Why it matter Whether you’re a small business owner analyzing revenue, a finance leader managing millions of values, or a brand manager reviewing the latest orders of a product line, seeing changes in your data reflected quickly is important. This update helps to make that possible by improving calculation speed in Sheets on Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers.

Getting started

Rollout pace

This feature is available now for all users.

Availability

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

Resources

Additional admin space management capabilities in Google Chat API are now available in Developer Preview Program

2024 m. birželio 25 d., antradienis

What’s changing We recently announced several new features for the Google Chat API that enable admins to manage spaces at scale. These features include the ability to audit spaces, delete inactive spaces in bulk, and more.
Today, we’re pleased to announce more space management capabilities, which include the ability to:

Look up details about specific space.
Update space details, including the name of a space, space description, and space guidelines.
Verify user’s membership status in a specific space.
Upgrade a role from space member to space manager.

These features are available now through our Developer Preview Program — see here for more information on how to enroll in the Developer Preview program.

Getting started

Admins and developers:

If you are part of the Google Workspace Developer Preview, you will get these features by default. Otherwise, you must apply for access using this form.
Use our Developer Documentation to learn how to authenticate and authorize using administrator privilege.

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

Rollout pace

This feature is available now through the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program

Availability

New features for the Google Chat API scoped to admin users are available to participants of Google Workspace Developer Preview Program.

Resources

Grading periods API for Google Classroom is now available in Developer Preview

2024 m. birželio 25 d., antradienis

What’s changingLast year, we introduced grading periods, an option that allows administrators and teachers to define and apply grading periods segmented from the entire school year to their Google Classroom assignments.
Today, we’re excited to announce grading period endpoints and capabilities in the Classroom API, available through the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program. Specifically, developers can now:

Create, modify, and delete grading periods on courses
Read grading periods on courses
Reference and set/read grading periods on CourseWork resources
Apply grading period settings to existing coursework items

Who’s impacted Developers

Why you’d use it The new grading periods endpoints allows developers to create, modify, and read grading periods in Classroom on behalf of administrators and teachers.

Getting started

Admins: The Classroom API provides a RESTful interface for you to manage courses and rosters in Google Classroom. Learn more about the Classroom API overview.
Developers:

To use the grading periods API, developers can apply for access through our Google Workspace Developer Preview Program.
Application developers can use the Classroom API to integrate their apps with Classroom. These apps need to use OAuth 2.0 to request permission to view classes and rosters from teachers. Admins can restrict whether teachers and students in their domain can authorize apps to access their Google Classroom data.
All API and Classroom share button integrations should follow the Classroom brand guidelines.

Rollout pace

This is available now through the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program

Availability Available for Google Workspace:

Education Plus

Resources

Introducing Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ for Google Workspace

2024 m. birželio 25 d., antradienis

What’s changingCurrently, Google Workspace admins can turn Colab on for their users, allowing them to access the free version of Colab. Beginning today, we’re pleased to announce the Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ standalone subscriptions for Google Workspace customers:

Colab Pro offers 100 compute units that grant access to additional powerful GPUs, memory, features, and productivity enhancements enabled with AI assistance.

Colab Pro+ gives you all the benefits of Colab Pro like productivity enhancements enabled with AI assistance, plus an additional 400 compute units for a total of 500 per month that grant access to additional powerful GPUs, along with background execution for our longest-running sessions.

Who’s impacted

Admins and end users

Why it’s important

Colab provides access to Google's powerful computational resources, which can be used to train machine learning models and perform other data-intensive tasks — all from your web browser. It can be used for a variety of data science and machine learning tasks, including:

Exploratory data analysis
Developing with the Gemini API
Machine learning model development
Natural language processing such as text classification and sentiment analysis
Image processing such as object detection and image classification.

We know that many Colab users are also Google Workspace users, especially those within educational institutions. Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ can help enhance their work and research with more compute units, faster GPUs, more memory and more.

Further, these offerings can help admins efficiently subscribe an entire team or organization to Colab, thereby minimizing the friction associated with setting up individual accounts for each user. By managing subscriptions at the group level, organizations can more effectively support collaborative workflows and ensure that all team members have access to the resources they need.

Getting started

Admins:

End users:

Colab is OFF by default and can be enabled by your Admin.
Note that if you have purchased Colab's “Pay As You Go” offering for yourself, you can continue using it in addition with Colab Pro and Pro+.

Rollout pace

Gradually rolling out over the coming months to all customers

Availability

Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ are standalone subscriptions available to all Google Workspace customers with a verified domain.

Resources

Google Workspace Admin Help: Google Workspace add-ons
Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn Google Colab on or off for users
Google Workspace Admin Help: Assign Colab licenses to users
Google Workspace Admin Help: Notice template for schools when gathering parent or guardian consent
Google Workspace Admin Help: Choose your Google Workspace edition
Google Workspace Admin Help: Verify your domain for Google Workspace

Bringing our Learning Interoperability Tools under one umbrella: Google Workspace LTI™

2024 m. birželio 24 d., pirmadienis

What’s changing Going forward, all Learning Interoperability Tools, including Assignments LTI™, and Google Drive LTI™, will be consolidated into a single category: Google Workspace LTI™. There are no functionality changes with this update, but you will notice the following:

Assignments will be renamed to Google Workspace LTI™ in the Admin console and Google Workspace LTI™ in the Google Cloud console
All LTI tools managed in the Admin console with the Google Workspace LTI™ service
The Google Assignments Help Center will be rebranded to Google Workspace LTI™. The community forum will remain the same.

Getting started

Admins: You’ll notice these updates automatically. Visit the Help Center to learn more about Google Workspace LTI™.
End users: There is no end user impact or action required.

Rollout pace

This is now available.

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus, and the Teaching & Learning Upgrade

Resources

Google Workspace Help: Google Workspace LTI™ overview

Gemini in the side panel of Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, and Google Drive is rolling out now

2024 m. birželio 24 d., pirmadienis

What’s changingWe’re pleased to announce the general availability of Gemini in the side panel of Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. Through the side panel, Gemini can assist you with summarizing, analyzing, and generating content by utilizing insights gathered from your emails, documents, and more—all without switching applications or tabs. The updated interface automatically summarizes the content you're working on and provides contextually relevant prompts to help you get started.

Who’s impacted End users

Why you’d use it The side panel will use Google’s most capable models including the Gemini 1.5 Pro model with a longer context window and more advanced reasoning, allowing you to harness the power of Gemini directly from your most used Google Workspace apps. Here are a few examples of when you’d use it:

Docs: Gemini in Docs side panel can help you write and refine your content, summarize information, help you brainstorm, create content based off of other files, and more.

Gemini in Docs side panel

Slides: Gemini in Slides side panel can help you generate new slides, generate custom images, summarize presentations and more.

Using Gemini in Slides side panel

Sheets: Gemini in Sheets side panel can help you track and organize data. In the side panel, you can quickly create tables, generate formulas and ask how to accomplish certain tasks in Sheets.

Using Gemini in Sheets side panel

Drive: Gemini in Drive side panel can summarize one or multiple documents, get quick facts about a project, or deep dive on a topic without needing to find and click through numerous documents.

Using Gemini in Drive side panel

Additional details

We’re also introducing Gemini in the Gmail side panel, which you can leverage to summarize email threads, draft an email, suggest responses to an email thread, and more. For more information, see our announcement on the Workspace Updates blog.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Available for Google Workspace customers with:

Gemini Business and Enterprise add-on
Gemini Education and Education Premium add-on
Google One AI Premium

Resources

Gemini in the side panel of Gmail is rolling out now

2024 m. birželio 24 d., pirmadienis

What’s changingIn addition to the recent announcement of Gemini in the side panel of Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, and Drive, we’re excited to introduce the general availability of Gemini in the Gmail side panel. Built to leverage Google’s most capable models, including the Gemini 1.5 Pro model with a longer context window and more advanced reasoning, you can now use Gemini in Gmail on web to:

Summarize an email thread
Suggest responses to an email thread
Get help drafting an email
Ask questions and find specific information from emails within your inbox or from your Google Drive files

While Gemini in Gmail will provide proactive prompts to help you get started, you can also ask freeform questions. For example, you can ask Gemini to search your inbox for things like "What was the PO number for my agency?", "How much did the company spend on the last marketing event?", or "When is the next team meeting?". And just like that, you’ll have the information you need to quickly reply without having to ever leave Gmail.

Starting today, you can also use Gemini in the Gmail mobile app on Android and iOS to analyze email threads and see a summarized view with the key highlights, just as you can with the side panel on the web. This is useful when you’re on the go, especially because reading through long email threads can be time consuming and even a bit of a challenge on a smaller screen. Additional mobile features like Contextual Smart Reply and Gmail Q&A are coming soon.

Who’s impacted End users

Why you’d use it While Gemini in Gmail helps you view, understand and respond to email content, it also connects to other Workspace apps like Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive. For example, let’s say you’re planning a company offsite and get an email from a team member asking for the hotel information so they can book a room. Now you can ask Gemini to look it up from a Google Doc that contains all the offsite details, using a simple “what is the hotel name and sales manager email listed in @Company Offsite 2024.” Then you can easily insert this into your reply to get your team member the help they need.

Getting started

On web, you can access Gemini in the Gmail side panel by clicking on “Ask Gemini” (star button) in the top right corner of Gmail. Visit the Help Center to learn more about collaborating with Gemini in Gmail.
On mobile, you can access Gemini by tapping on the “summarize this email” chip in an email thread.

Rollout pace Web:

Mobile:

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on June 24, 2024

Availability Available for Google Workspace customers with:

Gemini Business and Enterprise add-on
Gemini Education and Education Premium add-on
Google One AI Premium

Resources

Manage access to eSignature in Google Workspace

2024 m. birželio 24 d., pirmadienis

What’s changingStarting today, the admin control for Google Workspace’s eSignature feature is live for select Google Workspace editions. Admins can control users’ ability to request signatures before eSignature rolls out to end users in the coming weeks.

To configure this setting, go to Apps > Google Workspace > Drive and Docs > eSignature in the Admin console. Admins can manage eSignature access at the Organizational Unit (OU) level or the Group level, as shown below:

The eSignature control in the Admin console

Why you’d use it

Admins can manage access to eSignature in advance of the feature rollout to end users so only the appropriate groups will have the ability to request eSignatures. Note: the admin control does not restrict users from providing eSignatures via the feature.

Additional details

eSignature for Google Docs is rolling out to end users soon

In the coming weeks, we will roll out eSignature for Google Docs to end users on select Google Workspace editions. eSignature offers a variety of features to help you streamline requesting and capturing signatures, helping you stay organized and keep your work moving along. Specifically, you can:

Request eSignatures, including signatures from more than one user and from non-Gmail users.
View the status of pending signatures and find completed contracts.
Keep contract templates to initiate multiple eSignature requests.
View an audit trail of completed contracts,
Use custom text fields to request additional information from signers, such as job titles, email addresses and more.
Sign contracts from both mobile devices and PCs.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Admin setting

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) June 24, 2024

End user availability

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

Availability

Available to Google Workspace

Business Standard and Plus
Enterprise Starter, Standard and Plus
Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus
Education Plus customers

eSignature is already available for Google Workspace individual subscribers.

Resources

Google Classroom add-ons now generally available to Google Workspace developers

2024 m. birželio 24 d., pirmadienis

What’s changingIn 2022, we made it easy to seamlessly access popular Education Technology tools directly in Google Classroom. We partnered with 20+ EdTech companies, including Kahoot!, Pear Deck, IXL, ReadWorks, and Nearpod, to build Google Classroom add-ons. These new integrations let educators and students easily find, use, and grade great content in their favorite EdTech tools without having to navigate to external websites and apps.

Today, we’re excited to make Classroom add-ons generally available to all developers. Now, developers can build an add-on to allow teachers to do the following within Classroom:

Discover and attach content to coursework

Preview content from student perspective

Review student responses to activities

Save time with automatic grading of student responses

Google Classroom add-ons now generally available to Google Workspace developers

Who’s impacted

Admins, end users, and developers

Why it’s important Add-ons complement other Classroom API features and let educators and students experience content without having to leave Google Classroom. In addition, Classroom add-ons show up directly in Google Classroom as well on the Google Workspace Marketplace, which is the hub for administrators to manage tools across all of their Google products.

Getting started

Admins:

Developers: All developers can now build a Classroom add-on. Learn how to get started using the Developer Documentation here.
Educators:

Browse the Google Workspace Marketplace or Google for Education App Hub to find and install add-ons that you can install for yourself.
Once you or an administrator has installed an add-on, you will see an “add-ons” module when creating Announcements, Assignments, or Materials. Select one of the listed providers to launch their add-on. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using add-ons in Classroom.

Rollout pace

This feature is now available

Availability Available for Google Workspace:

Education Plus and the Teaching & Learning Upgrade

Resources

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap - June 21, 2024

2024 m. birželio 21 d., penktadienis

3 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.
Now generally available: Build AppSheet automations using Google Forms AppSheet helps users automate manual workflows by integrating with data sources like Google Drive, Chat and Sheets, and earlier this year we announced its integration with Google Forms in beta. This week, we’re excited to announce this is now generally available. | Roll out to Rapid Release domains and Scheduled Release domains is complete. | Available to Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Essentials Plus, Education Standard, Education Plus and the Teaching & Learning Upgrade, Frontline Starter, Frontline Standard, AppSheet Starter, AppSheet Core, AppSheet Enterprise Standard, and AppSheet Enterprise Plus customers only. | Learn more about AppSheet's integration with Google Forms and building your first app and automation using Google Forms.

The ability to add and remove Google Groups as space members using the Google Chat API is now generally available Last year, we announced the ability to create spaces, memberships, group chats, and more using the Google Chat API. This week, we’re excited to introduce the option for developers to add and remove Google Groups as space members using the Google Chat API. | Rolling out now to Rapid Release domains and Scheduled Release domains. | Available to all Google Workspace customers. | Learn more about accessing Chat APIs through the Google Chat API.

Comments and action items in client-side encrypted Google Docs is now generally available 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 functionality was previously available in open beta — see our original announcement for complete details. | Rolling out to Rapid Release domains now; launch to Scheduled Release domains planned for July 2, 2024. | Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Standard and Education Plus customers only. | Learn more about working with encrypted files in Drive, Docs, Sheets & Slides.

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.

Insert images into practice sets in Google Classroom

Teachers can now import images, like graphs, charts or photos, into practice sets using files from Google Drive or directly from their computer. | Learn more about inserting images into practice sets.

Help your students learn to read with Read Along in Classroom

We’re introducing Read Along in Google Classroom, a new feature that helps students build their independent reading skills by enabling teachers to assign differentiated reading activities, based on Lexile® measure, grade level, or phonics skills. | Learn more about Read Along in Google Classroom.

External users can now securely collaborate on client-side encrypted files

We’re expanding visitor sharing, a feature that provides secure, pincode-based collaboration over sensitive data with people, to include client-side encrypted files. This allows users to securely collaborate with external partners on sensitive Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides files, while maintaining the confidentiality of the information with the granular control of encryption keys, identity verification and user permissions. | Learn more about visitor sharing.

Create interactive YouTube assignments in Google Classroom more quickly and efficiently, with the help of AI

We’re introducing AI-suggested questions that educators can easily attach to a video based on its content when creating interactive YouTube assignments in Google Classroom. | Learn more about YouTube assignments in Classroom.

Google Meet adds 52 new languages to translated captions and 11 more languages for closed captions

For all Google Workspace customers and users with personal accounts, we’ve expanded support for closed captioning. In addition, for Gemini for Google Workspace customers, we are adding 52 languages to translated captions with full language support. | Learn more about translated captions and closed captions.

Improved syncing experience between Google Calendar and third-party calendars

We’re pleased to introduce an improved email notification experience for those who are using third-party calendar services—like Outlook—to collaborate with Google Calendar users. | Learn more about the improved syncing experience on Calendar.

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:

Expanding voice typing and automatic captions to additional browsers

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).

Improved syncing experience between Google Calendar and third-party calendars

2024 m. birželio 21 d., penktadienis

What’s changingWe’re pleased to introduce an improved email notification experience for those who are using third-party calendar services—like Outlook—to collaborate with Google Calendar users. Specifically, this update improves the accuracy of Google Calendar event syncing across calendar services, while helping cut down on the amount of email noise caused by calendar sync notifications.

Email notifications that are purely intended to sync information will now be marked as such in the body of the email and sent from a distinct, identifiable email address. The body of the email includes instructions for end users on how to implement inbox filters to avoid this type of email cluttering their inbox.
At scale, Outlook system administrators can use Microsoft’s Powershell to implement an email filter rule for these messages for all users.

Google Workspace customers can use this form to sign-up for the beta.

Improved syncing experience between Google Calendar and third-party calendars

Who’s impacted Admins and end users

Why it mattersWe’ve heard from our customers that the syncing experience from Google Calendar to third-party calendars was not consistently reliable. Additionally, users lacked an effective way to filter out Calendar emails which cluttered their inbox. This update will help improve the overall experience for users collaborating with Google Calendar users.

Getting started

Admins: Use this form to sign-up for the beta and visit the Help Center to learn more about how to filter Google Calendar email notifications.
End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing Google Calendar invites in other calendar services.

Rollout pace

Beta sign-ups are available now using this form until July 10, 2024. We will be accepting beta applications and allowlisting customers over the next several weeks.

Availability

Sign-up for this beta is available for all Google Workspace customers

Resources

Google Meet adds 52 new languages to translated captions and 11 more languages for closed captions

2024 m. birželio 20 d., ketvirtadienis

[Update - January 15, 2025]: We recently announced that Google AI features will be added directly to our Google Workspace Business and Enterprise plans. As part of this announcement, customers with Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, and Enterprise Plus editions can continue to use translated captions through their existing subscriptions.

What’s changingFor all Google Workspace customers and users with personal accounts, we’ve expanded support for closed captioning to include the following languages in beta*, bringing the total language count to 87:

Azerbaijani
Czech
Greek
Icelandic
Kazakh
Lao
Lithuanian
Malay
Serbian
Swahili
Ukrainian

*Newly supported languages are denoted with a “beta” tag as we continue to optimize performance.
translated captions

-Afrikaans

-Albanian

-Amharic

-Arabic

-Armenian

-Azerbaijani

-Basque

-Bengali

-Bulgarian

-Burmese

-Catalan

-Chinese (Simplified)*

-Chinese (Mandarin)*

-Czech

-Dutch**

-English*

-Estonian

-Filipino

-Finnish

-French*

-Galician

-Georgian

-German*

-Greek

-Gujarati

-Hebrew

-Hindi*

-Hungarian

-Icelandic

-Indonesian**

-Italian*

-Japanese**

-Javanese

-Kannada

-Kazakh

-Khmer

-Korean

-Lao

-Latvian

-Lithuanian

-Macedonian

-Malay

-Malayalam

-Marathi

-Mongolian

-Nepali

-Norwegian

-Persian (Farsi)

-Polish

-Portuguese*

-Romanian

-Russian*

-Serbian

-Sinhala

-Slovak

-Slovenian

-Spanish*

-Sundanese

-Swahili

-Swedish**

-Tamil

-Telugu

-Thai*

-Turkish**

-Ukrainian

-Urdu

-Uzbek

-Vietnamese**

- Zulu

* Full language support previously launched
** Previously only English into these languages was supported. For more information, see our previous announcement on the Workspace Updates blog.

Additional details

Update on the availability of translated captions for some Google Workspace customers

As we previously announced, translated captions in Google Meet will be exclusively available to Gemini for Google Workspace customers. This will go into effect starting January 22, 2025, when existing and new customers will no longer have access to translated captions through their Google Workspace subscription. At this time, translated captions will only be available in the following Gemini add-ons: Gemini Enterprise, AI Meetings and Messaging, and Gemini Education premium.

We will continue to invest in and improve translated captions with the additional languages and automatic language detection. In addition to translated captions, the Gemini for Workspace add-ons offer other generative AI features such as enhanced audio and image quality on meetings, take notes for me (in alpha), and more — use this link to learn more.

Getting started

End users: These features are available by default. Visit the Help Center to learn more about captions and translated captions in Google Meet.
Meeting participants: You can use live translated captions if the meeting is organized by a user with an eligible Google Workspace edition. Closed captions are available for all users.

Rollout pace

Live captions language expansion:

This feature is available now.

Translated captions expansion:

Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on June 21, 2024

Availability

Captions: Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google accounts
Translated Captions: Available for Google Workspace customers with the Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Education Premium, and AI Meetings & Messaging add-ons

Resources

Google Help: Use captions & translated captions in Google Meet

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