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.

• Custom event colors in Google Calendar
  June 17, 2026
  Google Calendar is expanding its event coloring options, moving beyond the current limitation of 11 predefined colors for events. Going forward, users are offered an expanded color palette so they can personalize events and visually organize their calendar with ease, giving each user access to up to 200 custom colors […]
• Enhanced AI avatar features and capabilities in Google Vids
  June 17, 2026
  With the integration of Gemini 3.1 Flash Text-To-Speech (TTS) and the latest capabilities in Veo 3.1, AI avatars in Google Vids have become more realistic and expressive than ever. We’re excited to announce expanded language support, a new collection of avatar defaults, and the ability to direct your custom avatars […]
• Create longer Veo videos and generate multiple at once in Google Vids
  June 17, 2026
  Starting today, we’re introducing powerful new ways to create and iterate on video content in Google Vids using Veo. These updates provide all Vids users with the ability to create longer videos with consistent characters and generate multiple videos in parallel, enabling you to bring your vision to life faster […]
• Control whether your users can have temporary chats and delete conversations in the Gemini app
  June 16, 2026
  We’re introducing two new administrator controls for the Gemini app (gemini.google.com) that allow end users to manage their own chat activity. Admins can now configure whether users can use temporary chats and delete their conversation history.Temporary chats allows users to have conversations that are not saved to their history.Conversation deletion […]
• Gemini in Chrome expands to more languages and regions, including Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East
  June 16, 2026
  Many of Chrome's latest AI features are rolling out to users in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and more. Gemini in Chrome empowers business and education users with AI tools that integrate seamlessly into their daily browsing workflows while maintaining strict data governance. It’s also available to users with personal […]