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.

• Better screen scaling for Google Calendar on large monitors
  March 10, 2026
  Google Calendar on the web now offers improved scaling on large, high-resolution monitors. This update provides a clearer overview of your day by reducing unnecessary whitespace and better utilizing your available screen space.Previously, users with large or high-resolution monitors may have felt that it was difficult to get an overview […]
• Assign Google Calendars to Google Meet hardware in bulk
  March 9, 2026
  We’re making it easier to manage calendar assignments for your Meet hardware devices. You can now assign or unassign Google Calendars to your Meet hardware devices in bulk by uploading a CSV file. For organizations with a large number of devices, this eliminates the need to assign calendars one by […]
• New Device ID for Google Meet hardware
  March 9, 2026
  We’re replacing the current Device ID (“Legacy ID”) for Google Meet hardware devices with a new Device ID. This new Device ID will be displayed everywhere you currently see the Legacy ID throughout the Google Admin console:The device list, details, history, and videocalling pages (Admin console > Devices > Google […]
• Updates to meetings made by a delegate user are now sent in the name of the principal
  March 9, 2026
  In many organizations, executives and senior leaders rely on admins or delegates to oversee their busy schedules. In Google Calendar this can be set up by sharing an executive’s calendar with “Make changes to events” or “Make changes and manage sharing” permissions with a delegate user.We’re updating how meeting notifications […]
• Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap – March 6, 2026
  March 6, 2026
  Improved join permission logging for Google Meet Audit eventsGoogle Meet Audit event logging for endpoints will now also include the permission type used to grant access to join a meeting. | Learn more about improved join permission logging for Google Meet Audit events.Workspace admins can allow Gemini app conversation sharing […]