Google Workspace

Wake Forest is a Google Workspace for Education Plus school, which means that our campus community has access to an integrated suite of secure, cloud-native collaboration and productivity apps powered by Google AI. These tools and features help the campus community realize the value of collaborating with each other and sharing useful information.

The Google Workspace application suite provides access to powerful tools to enhance academic and professional success, including:

Google Calendar: plan meetings with colleagues in this scheduler, the preferred choice for faculty and staff

Google Classroom: utilize as an additional tool for creating courses and assessments

Google Docs: create, edit, and share documents, collaborating in real time and saving to the cloud

Google Drive: store, organize, open, and edit your files securely all from one place

Gmail: access your Wake Forest email while staying connected with Chat and Rooms or with Contacts in your side panel

Google Groups: create a discussion group and manage members

Google Meet: schedule, host, and join video calls from Gmail or Calendar, without having to download a desktop app

Google Sites: create websites using an easy drag and drop functionality and a collaborative editing platform

Check out Google’s support site to explore more features.

In addition to these applications, our account supports:

• Cloud search: quickly find what you need by searching your files and across Wake Forest’s content in Google Workspace. 
• Unlimited originality reports: help students properly cite sources, and help professors find plagiarism, in Assignments, which can integrate with Canvas!

Google Workspace Updates

courtesy of googleblog.

• Ask Gemini in Meet: Your Personal Meeting Assistant
  September 17, 2025
  What’s changing Ask Gemini in Meet will soon be available in Google Meet for select Google Workspace customers, offering advanced features to improve your meeting experience. You can use Ask Gemini to: Summarize ongoing discussions, or get a recap of what someone said Improve meeting outcomes by identifying key takeaways, decisions, and action […]
• Quizzes in the Gemini app are now available to under-18 users
  September 17, 2025
  What’s changing Earlier this year, we announced the ability to generate quizzes for any subject using Canvas in the Gemini app by uploading relevant documents or simply entering a prompt like “Give me a practice quiz about the nervous system”. Now, this feature is also available to users under 18 years […]
• Changes to Manage Google Meet hardware and calendars privilege
  September 17, 2025
  What’s changing To improve security and clarity, the Manage Google Meet hardware and calendars privilege will no longer grant broad access to all calendars in your organization. Currently: This privilege allows admins to assign calendars to Meet hardware devices AND grants full read/write access to all calendars in your organization. Starting October 15, […]
• Now generally available: Convert your Client-side encrypted Google Sheets after a Vault or Takeout export
  September 16, 2025
  What’s changing Client-side encryption supports ediscovery and data portability for our customers. After an export using Vault or the data export tool (takeout), admins can decrypt the previously client-side encrypted content. This launch now adds full support with a conversion tool so that admins can convert decrypted Google Sheets into a […]
• Automatically install Chat apps to your conversations
  September 16, 2025
  What’s changing Chat apps will now automatically be added as needed to future conversations after being installed by a user. Previously, a user had to manually install a Chat app into every space, group chat, and direct message. For example, the first time a user tries to start a poll with the […]