Use flexible, secure tools at no cost with Education Fundamentals, or add the enhanced capabilities you need with Education Standard or Education Plus.
Gmail
Calendar
Meet
Docs
Sheets
Slides
Forms
Gemini
Classroom
NotebookLM
Vids
Sites
Groups
Drive
Admin
Tasks
for qualifying institutions
A suite of tools that enables collaborative learning opportunities on a secure platform.
Includes teaching and learning essentials:
Gemini app and NotebookLM - AI assistants with enterprise-grade data protection
Collaboration with Classroom, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Gmail, Drive, Meet, Sites, Chat, and Calendar
Security and administrative tools in the Google Admin console
100 TB of pooled cloud storage shared by your organization
per student, per year
Get one staff license for every four student licenses.
Advanced security and analytics to help you proactively protect your community from digital threats.
Includes features from Education Fundamentals, plus:
A unified security dashboard to take a more proactive security posture
Centralized control and visibility to prevent, detect, and remediate security threats
No-code, custom apps with AppSheet Core
Deeper analytics and powerful data visualizations
Recommended
per student, per year
Get one staff license for every four student licenses
An all-in-one solution with advanced security and analytics, teaching and learning features, and more.
Includes features from all other editions, and more:
Advanced security and analytics to help you proactively protect your community from digital threats
Additional enhanced teaching and learning tools to help educators enhance instructional impact
Personalized Cloud Search for your domain to make information accessible and easy to find
Additional Drive storage for each staff and student license
1 Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals is available at no cost for qualifying institutions. Learn more.
See what’s included or available with each edition of Google Workspace for Education.
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Gemini Your AI assistant for education | |||
Enterprise-grade data protection | |||
Access the Gemini app on web and mobile | |||
Build custom AI experts for any topic with Gems | |||
Get in-depth reports in minutes with Deep Research | 10 per month | 10 per month | 10 per month |
Gemini in Gmail, Docs, Classroom, Vids and more | |||
Gemini Pro with expanded access to Google’s most capable AI models widely available | |||
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NotebookLM AI grounded in information you trust | |||
Chat with AI in a "walled garden" grounded only in your sources | |||
Turn your sources into podcast-like Audio Overviews | Up to 3 per day | Up to 3 per day | Up to 3 per day |
Get 5x more notebooks, chat queries, Audio Overviews and sources per notebook | |||
Shared notebooks with "chat-only" mode and usage analytics | |||
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Vids Create videos for teaching and learning | |||
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Classroom Where teaching & learning come together | |||
Education leader tools Make data-driven decisions with Classroom analytics | |||
Visit a class to support educators without being a co-teacher | |||
Integrations Sync Classroom rosters from your student information system (SIS) with Clever (US only) | |||
Import and export information from OneRoster-supported SIS partners | |||
Access third-party teaching tools with Classroom add-ons | |||
Personal & engaging learning tools Encourage reading practice with Read Along in Classroom | |||
Check understanding with interactive practice sets | |||
Create engaging lessons with interactive questions for YouTube videos | |||
Class management & grading Add students to a new course by sharing a link or code | |||
Check for plagiarism with originality reports | 5 reports per class | 5 reports per class | Unlimited with peer comparison |
Share links to class templates and classwork | |||
Student to-do and teacher to-review pages | |||
Schedule posts to multiple classes | |||
Manage multiple classes at once | |||
Rubrics displayed alongside student work | |||
Snap and submit work through improved image capture | |||
Assess progress from anywhere | |||
Customizable comment bank | |||
Define grading periods and scales | |||
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Meet Secure Video and voice conferencing | 100 participants | 100 participants | 1000 participants |
Moderation controls | |||
Meeting length (maximum) | 24 hours | 24 hours | 24 hours |
Breakout rooms | |||
Attendance tracking | |||
Call transcripts | |||
Recordings saved to Drive | |||
In-domain YouTube livestreaming | Up to 100,000 | ||
Q&A and polls during live streams | |||
Live translated captions | |||
Dial-in access to meetings | US/Canada | US/Canada | US and international |
Closed Captioning, viewer initiated | |||
Hand raising | |||
Digital whiteboarding | |||
Custom backgrounds | |||
Polls and Q&A | |||
Noise cancellation | |||
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Docs, Sheets, Slides & Forms Collaborative content creation | 100 participants | 100 participants | 1000 participants |
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Docs Co-create documents and edit in real time | |||
eSignature with Docs and PDFs | |||
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Sheets Collaborate on spreadsheets | |||
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Slides Work together on presentations | |||
See speaker notes while presenting in Meet | |||
Co-presenting in Meet | |||
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Forms Create surveys and quizzes | |||
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Gmail Private and secure email | |||
AI-powered protections that block more than 99.9% of attacks | |||
Ad-free email | |||
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Workspace LTI Bring the collaborative power of Workspace to your LMS | |||
Assignments LTI™ Save time grading in your LMS | |||
Check for plagiarism with originality reports | 5 reports per class | 5 reports per class | Unlimited with peer comparison |
Supports a number of languages | |||
Supports Google Docs, Slides, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint | |||
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Meet LTI Use Google Meet in your LMS | |||
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Gemini LTI Use Gemini in your LMS | |||
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Drive LTI Submit Drive files in your LMS | |||
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AppSheet Core Build apps without code | |||
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Calendar Shared calendars | |||
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Chat Secure messaging | |||
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Sites Easy to create, simple websites | |||
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Groups Share and discuss topics together | |||
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Tasks Stay on top of your tasks | |||
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Secure Cloud Storage Secure storage for Photos, Drive, and Gmail | 100 TB pooled cloud storage | 100 TB pooled cloud storage | 100 TB shared + 20 GB per license |
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Support Assistance by email and online | |||
Assistance by phone | |||
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Admin Security and administration controls | |||
2-step verification | |||
Prevent threats and automatic monitoring in the Security Center | |||
Remediate spam, phishing, malware and more with the investigation tool | |||
Control who can access apps with context-aware access policies | |||
Data loss prevention for Gmail, Drive and Chat | |||
AI-enhanced data loss prevention | |||
Limit data to the United States or Europe, or distribute globally, with data regions | |||
Scan email attachments in a virtual security sandbox | |||
Drive labels and classification | |||
Target audiences | |||
Endpoint and mobile-device management | |||
Security dashboard reports | |||
Security health page | |||
Google Workspace Migrate (beta) | |||
Hosted S/MIME for Gmail | |||
Secure LDAP | |||
Advanced Protection Program (beta) | |||
Advanced mobile-device management | |||
Cloud Identity Premium | |||
Gmail and Classroom log analysis in BigQuery | |||
Integrate Gmail with compliant third-party archiving tools | |||
Automated Groups memberships (beta) | |||
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eDiscovery for emails, chats, and files | |||
Retention and archiving for Gmail and Google Meet | |||
Audit reports to track user activity | |||
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Cloud search Find info and files faster with smart search | |||
Your AI assistant for education
Enterprise-grade data protection
Access the Gemini app on web and mobile
Get in-depth reports in minutes with Deep Research
10 per month
Unlock higher limits for an added cost
10 per month
Unlock higher limits for an added cost
10 per month
Unlock higher limits for an added cost
Gemini in Gmail, Docs, Classroom, Vids and more
Gemini Pro with expanded access to Google’s most capable AI models widely available
AI grounded in information you trust
Chat with AI in a "walled garden" grounded only in your sources
Turn your sources into podcast-like Audio Overviews
Up to 3 per day
Up to 3 per day
Up to 3 per day
Get 5x more notebooks, chat queries, Audio Overviews and sources per notebook
Shared notebooks with "chat-only" mode and usage analytics
Create videos for teaching and learning
Where teaching & learning come together
Education leader tools
Make data-driven decisions with Classroom analytics
Visit a class to support educators without being a co-teacher
Integrations
Sync Classroom rosters from your student information system (SIS) with Clever (US only)
Personal & engaging learning tools
Encourage reading practice with Read Along in Classroom
Create engaging lessons with interactive questions for YouTube videos
Class management & grading
Add students to a new course by sharing a link or code
Check for plagiarism with originality reports
5 reports per class
5 reports per class
Unlimited with peer comparison
Share links to class templates and classwork
Student to-do and teacher to-review pages
Schedule posts to multiple classes
Manage multiple classes at once
Rubrics displayed alongside student work
Snap and submit work through improved image capture
Assess progress from anywhere
Customizable comment bank
Define grading periods and scales
Secure Video and voice conferencing
100 participants
100 participants
1000 participants
Moderation controls
Meeting length (maximum)
24 hours
24 hours
24 hours
Breakout rooms
Attendance tracking
Call transcripts
Recordings saved to Drive
In-domain YouTube livestreaming
Up to 100,000
Q&A and polls during live streams
Dial-in access to meetings
US/Canada
US/Canada
US and international
Closed Captioning, viewer initiated
Hand raising
Digital whiteboarding
Custom backgrounds
Polls and Q&A
Noise cancellation
Collaborative content creation
100 participants
100 participants
1000 participants
Docs
Co-create documents and edit in real time
eSignature with Docs and PDFs
Sheets
Collaborate on spreadsheets
Slides
Work together on presentations
See speaker notes while presenting in Meet
Co-presenting in Meet
Forms
Create surveys and quizzes
Private and secure email
AI-powered protections that block more than 99.9% of attacks
Ad-free email
Bring the collaborative power of Workspace to your LMS
Assignments LTI™
Save time grading in your LMS
Check for plagiarism with originality reports
5 reports per class
5 reports per class
Unlimited with peer comparison
Supports Google Docs, Slides, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint
Meet LTI
Use Google Meet in your LMS
Gemini LTI
Use Gemini in your LMS
Drive LTI
Submit Drive files in your LMS
Build apps without code
Shared calendars
Secure messaging
Easy to create, simple websites
Share and discuss topics together
Stay on top of your tasks
Secure storage for Photos, Drive, and Gmail
100 TB pooled cloud storage
100 TB pooled cloud storage
100 TB shared + 20 GB per license
Assistance by email and online
Assistance by phone
Security and administration controls
2-step verification
Prevent threats and automatic monitoring in the Security Center
Remediate spam, phishing, malware and more with the investigation tool
Control who can access apps with context-aware access policies
Data loss prevention for Gmail, Drive and Chat
AI-enhanced data loss prevention
Limit data to the United States or Europe, or distribute globally, with data regions
Scan email attachments in a virtual security sandbox
Drive labels and classification
Target audiences
Endpoint and mobile-device management
Security dashboard reports
Security health page
Google Workspace Migrate (beta)
Hosted S/MIME for Gmail
Secure LDAP
Advanced Protection Program (beta)
Advanced mobile-device management
Cloud Identity Premium
Gmail and Classroom log analysis in BigQuery
Integrate Gmail with compliant third-party archiving tools
Automated Groups memberships (beta)
for emails, chats, and files
Retention and archiving for Gmail and Google Meet
Audit reports to track user activity
Find info and files faster with smart search
Purchase add-ons to equip individuals at your institution with premium functionality.
Gemini is an AI assistant across Google Workspace for Education that helps you save time, create captivating learning experiences, and inspire fresh ideas
Build on the functionality of Education Fundamentals and Education Standard with enhanced teaching and learning tools that increase instructional impact.
Google Workspace for Education offers Education Fundamentals to all qualifying institutions at no cost. For those that want more premium features, Google also offers paid editions including Education Standard and Education Plus.
Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals is available for no charge for all qualifying institutions. Education Standard and Education Plus are paid editions. Please contact Sales to learn more.
All editions provide schools with 100TB of storage shared across the institution. Additional storage is provided with the Teaching and Learning add-on and Education Plus editions based on the number of licenses purchased. Please review our comparison chart for more details or visit our Help Center.
It depends and varies based on the intended combination of editions.
You must have Education Fundamentals before you upgrade to any of the other editions (Education Standard or Education Plus).
You cannot have Education Plus in combination with Education Standard — only Education Fundamentals.
You can have a combination of Education Standard and the Teaching and Learning add-on at the same time. Although we believe the maximum value of those combined features can be realized in Education Plus, we wanted to be as flexible as possible to school community needs.
Yes, Google offers automatic discounts for customers that contractually commit to a multi-year purchase (two years or more) of Google Workspace for Education Plus. To learn more, please connect with your Google Workspace for Education partner reseller and/or Google for Education representative.
No, there is no need for a new Google Workspace for Education contract nor an addendum.
All paid Google Workspace for Education editions are annual subscriptions and pricing is locked for the duration of the subscription term.
Customers who purchase Education Standard can upgrade to Education Plus at any time.
Customers can reevaluate continuing with their subscription or downgrade at the end of their subscription term.
Yes. You can upgrade your Google for Workspace Education edition to one that includes more storage. For example, in addition to the 100TB of pooled storage shared by your organization in each edition, the Teaching and Learning add-on includes an additional 100 GB of shared pooled storage per staff license and Education Plus includes an additional 20 GB of shared pooled storage per license. Education Plus customers can also purchase Google Workspace Additional Storage in 10TB increments. To learn more, please connect with your Google Workspace for Education partner reseller and/or Google for Education representative.
All paid Google Workspace for Education editions are available as annual subscriptions and pricing is locked for the duration of the subscription term.
Yes, our authorized Google Workspace for Education partners can provision 60 day trials for Education Plus and Education Standard. 50 licenses are provided for the trial.
Visit our Help Center for more details on Google Workspace for Education.
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