Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals
A for teaching and learning
Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals is a suite of secure and easy-to-use tools, with AI-driven features to create more personalized and engaging learning experiences provided at no cost.
Foster collaboration across your education community
Make it easy for everyone in your education community to collaborate, communicate, and participate in real time.
Write, edit, and collaborate in real time, add new collaborators, and see changes as they happen in Docs, Sheets, and Slides.
Teach and learn from anywhere with up to 100 participants using reliable and secure video conferencing, and easily communicate with students via built-in chat.
Personalize settings for every student, provide live captions, and use Screen Reader, braille readers, and screen magnification.
Google Docs
Google Meet
Google Docs
Promote productivity with time-saving tools
Save time with easy-to-use tools that automate and simplify tasks.
Create and organize classwork, grade tests, and build permission slips, polls and more with Classroom, Assignments, and Forms.
Use built-in rubrics and comment alongside student work to provide feedback that students can easily find and action on.
Automatically save progress in documents, organize files, and alert guardians on activities, deadlines, or missing work.
Google Classroom
Google Assignments
Google Slides
Strengthen digital safety with privacy and security tools
Use one of the world’s most secure cloud-based communication and productivity suites.
Help keep your institution safe with data practices that support compliance with FERPA, COPPA, GDPR, and more. You retain full intellectual property rights over your data, and Core Services, like Gmail, Calendar, and Classroom, have no ads.
Send secure emails with Gmail, which uses AI-powered protections to block more than 99.9% of spam, phishing and malware from ever reaching you. Safeguard sensitive data in Gmail and Drive with automated data loss prevention (DLP).
Rely on 100 TB of pooled cloud storage, protected in Drive, and retain user data for compliance and discovery in Vault.
Google Drive
Gmail
Google Drive
Choose the right edition for your needs
Use flexible, secure features and AI-driven tools built for educators at no cost with Education Fundamentals, or add the enhanced capabilities you need with Education Plus.
Every edition includes
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Gmail
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Calendar
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Meet
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Classroom
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Docs
Sheets
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Slides
Forms
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Assignments
Admin
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Drive
Gemini
Groups
Sites
Tasks
Notebook LM
1 Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals is available for no charge for qualifying institutions. Learn more.
Get Google Workspace with Gemini
Unleash your potential with Gemini in the Workspace apps you know and love, like Docs and Gmail, plus expanded access to our most capable AI models with the Gemini app and NotebookLM.
ADD-ON TO ANY EDITION
Google AI Pro for Education
Your AI assistant for education:
Gemini in Gmail, Docs, Slides, Vids, Forms, Sheets, Meet, and more
Gemini app, providing expanded access to our most capable models widely available
NotebookLM, accelerating learning and knowledge-sharing with an AI expert on your sources
Enterprise-grade privacy and security
More proactive security with AI-enhanced data loss prevention
Full access to generative AI capabilities
Enhance your edition with powerful add-ons
Purchase add-ons to equip specific individuals at your institution with premium functionality.
Google AI Pro for Education
Google AI Pro for Education provides access to Google Workspace with Gemini, integrating Gemini across the Workspace apps you already know and love, like Docs and Gmail, plus expanded access to premium models and features in the Gemini app and NotebookLM.
Teaching and Learning
Build on the functionality of Education Fundamentals with this premium add-on.
Prepare your students for college, career, and life
Build a thriving educational community that provides students and faculty with the skills and technology they need today—and tomorrow.
75%
of university students prefer Google Workspace as their productivity suite of choice.
Source: Sada Systems, Inc. 23 August 2022
96%
of Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups use Google Workspace.
Resources to help you get started with Education Fundamentals
Learn more about getting started with Google Workspace for Education.
Educator training
This step-by-step training teaches practical strategies for how to use Google tools for in-person learning and classroom management.
Accessibility
Learn about accessibility features designed to help support students who have diverse needs and learning styles.
Sustainability
Learn how Google for Education is taking steps to help you meet your sustainability goals.
Privacy and security
Google for Education helps create a safer digital learning environment for every school, every classroom, and every student.
“Every time I walk into a classroom, students say, ‘we’re going to do something fun today.' The technology allows us so much freedom in our classrooms – it’s unlike anything I’ve seen before.”
Teresa Engler
Technology Coach“Compared to other video conferencing tools, Meet is easier to use, easier to manage, and more secure. It also has features that helped us get buy-in more easily.”
Charley Butcher
Director of Instructional Technology“We love the efficiency of having all of these functions – meetings and classes, recording, and streaming – performed by the one tool.”
Karl Bernard
IT Business Partner“We realized that the sandboxing feature took away that day-to-day anxiety about security. It’s always working for us in the background – a real set-it-and-forget-it tool.”
Philip Vinogradov
Chief Technology Officer
Start today with Google Workspace for Education
Connect and collaborate across your whole education community. Choose the edition that best suits you and your institution.
Find answers to commonly asked questions
Education Fundamentals is available without cost for qualified educational institutions. To determine if you qualify, please visit this page.
Please visit our comparison chart to review the full feature set included in Education Fundamentals.
Education Fundamentals is the new name for G Suite for Education. If your school is using G Suite for Education today, you don’t have to take any action to transition to Education Fundamentals. Your school's experience with our tools, as well as our qualifications for new customers to gain access to them, will remain the same.
Institutions with Education Fundamentals have a shared pool of 100TB of storage, which they can manage and allocate as they see fit. Please reach out to your admin to explore options for additional storage. Please visit our Help Center for more details.
Visit our Help Center for more details on Education Fundamentals.
Add-ons are sold separately and offer premium functionality for specific users within your Google Workspace for Education domain.