June 30, 2025
Google Vids is now available for all Google Workspace for Education customers
What’s changing
- Educators can support diverse learning styles and help students retain information with instructional videos and deep dives on complex concepts.
- Students can work on video projects and review recorded lessons.
- Education leaders can easily incorporate video in their school newsletters and create internal training videos for staff. Vids is also integrated with Google Workspace for Education tools like Google Classroom, empowering educators to easily assign video projects or post video explainers right to their students.
Who’s impacted
Why you’d use it
Getting started
- Admins:
- Google Vids is a Workspace Core Service for Workspace for Education customers.
- Vids will be ON by default and can be disabled at the organizational level. However, if Google Docs are turned OFF in your domain, Vids access will be unavailable.
- Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Vids on or off for users.
- End users:
- To start, open Google Vids and choose an option to create a new video. You can create a new video or make a copy of an existing video for editing.
- You can use Vids on your computer with the two most recent versions of these browsers:
- Chrome
- Firefox
- Windows only: Microsoft Edge
- Other browsers may work, but you might not be able to use all of the features.
- Dive into Google Vids with our free, self-paced online training course, designed specifically for educators and available now in the Google for Education Learning Center. You can also leverage this one pager to get a quick summary of what you can do with Vids.
- Visit the Help Center to learn more about getting started with Google Vids.
Rollout pace
- Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now.
Availability
- Education Fundamentals, Standard and Plus
- Customers with a Gemini Education or Education Premium add-on