New Features Coming to G Suite for Education

Google Meet Upgrades

Control for moderators

Arriving in September

• Prohibit participants from joining meetings after they’ve been ejected or after they’ve been denied entry twice (launching later this month)
• End meetings for all participants when class is finished
• Manage join requests with ease by accepting or rejecting them in bulk
• Disable in-meeting chat and set restrictions on who can present during a meeting
• A setting that requires the teacher to join first

Interactivity

Launching in September

• A larger tiled views with a 7x7 grid so you can see up to 49 students at once
• A collaborative whiteboard with Jamboard in Meet so you can encourage students to share ideas and try creative approaches to lessons

Launching in October

• Blur or replace backgrounds so everyone feels more comfortable during distance-learning classes. Note: Admins can disable custom backgrounds as needed.
• Attendance tracking to see and track which students attended virtual class (G Suite Enterprise for Education)
• Breakout rooms so educators can split classes into simultaneous small group discussions (G Suite Enterprise for Education)

Launching later this year

• Hand-raising to help you identify students who may need help or have a question
• Q&A features to provide a way for students to ask questions without disrupting the flow of the class discussion or lesson (G Suite Enterprise for Education)
• Polling to help you interact with your entire class (G Suite Enterprise for Education)

Google Classroom Improvements

• A new to-do widget on the Classes page will help students see what’s coming up, what’s missing, and what’s been graded.
• Teachers can now share a link to invite students to their class, which makes joining a class much easier.
• Student engagement metrics: Educators will be able to see stats that help track how students are interacting in Google Classroom each day.
• Better Originality Reports. For example, educators can soon run originality reports five times per course (up from three previously). And with G Suite Enterprise for Education, educators will be able to see matches for potential plagiarism not only against webpages, but between student submissions at their school.

New resources and tools to support families

Tech Toolkit for Families and Guardians helps parents better understand the technology that their kids use in the classroom.