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.

• Our best avatars in Google Vids yet, now powered by Veo 3.1
  December 18, 2025
  Earlier this year we launched AI avatars in Google Vids to streamline video creation, and today we’re excited to announce that our avatars are now powered by Veo 3.1, Google’s state-of-the-art video generation model. This upgrade is so powerful that in evaluations, people prefer Vids avatars five times more often than […]
• Block messages from unknown senders in Google Chat
  December 17, 2025
  What’s changingWe’re introducing a new setting in Google Chat that gives users more control over who can invite them to 1:1 conversations and spaces. While the default setting allows invitations from anyone, users can now choose to restrict incoming requests to known senders only. This restriction can be done for […]
• Keep your team informed: Introducing the Feeds app for Google Chat
  December 17, 2025
  We’re excited to introduce the new Feeds app for  Google Chat. This app makes it simple for teams to bring important, real-time external updates—such as news, blog posts, and industry research from any Atom or RSS feed—directly into their group conversations and spaces.The goal is to eliminate the need for […]
• Share your device’s audio when presenting in Google Meet
  December 17, 2025
  What’s happeningSharing your screen is an essential part of collaborating and presenting in Google Meet. Often, you may also want to share audio as part of your presentation. We’re excited to announce that you can now share your device audio when presenting a specific window or your entire screen. Previously, […]
• Share stereo sound with audio content in Google Meet
  December 16, 2025
  What’s changingPresenters will now be able to share stereo sound when presenting content with stereo audio in Google Meet. During virtual meetings, presenters often share content with audio, such as music before a meeting starts, videos for review or discussion during the meeting, and more. Now, if the audio is […]