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.

• Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap – December 5, 2025
  December 5, 2025
  A summary of announcements from the last week:The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog over the last week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.Control whether users can request to join a space in Google ChatNew Google Chat Access Control Space owners and managers can now […]
• BYOD on Google Meet on Chrome OS touch controller rooms
  December 5, 2025
  What’s changingWe're launching an integration with Lightware peripheral switchers, so that you and your team can bring your own devices (BYOD) to Google Meet on Chrome OS touch controller rooms. Now, you can plug your laptop into a Meet room with a single USB-C cable and easily use the room's […]
• A more modern interface for viewing PDFs, videos, images, and audio files in Google Drive on the web
  December 5, 2025
  What’s changingGoogle Drive is making significant improvements to the viewing experience of third party file formats, such as PDFs, videos, images, and audio files. With this launch, we are modernizing the interface to include:A new left rail for PDFs which will include a table of contents (where applicable) and thumbnails […]
• Now available: Create AI agents to automate work with Google Workspace Studio
  December 3, 2025
  What’s happeningToday we’re introducing Google Workspace Studio: the place to create, manage, and share AI agents to automate work in Workspace—no coding required. What you can do with Workspace StudioWorkspace agents built in Studio offer flexibility and intelligence beyond traditional automation.Automate with agents: Move beyond simple, rule-based automation. Agents can reason […]
• Get quick insights on your Google Drive folders with Gemini
  December 2, 2025
  What’s happeningEarlier this year, we introduced Gemini “nudges” at the top of folders in Google Drive, and we’re now making it even easier to get the context of your folders at a glance. Gemini will now proactively provide insights about the files within a folder, right at the top of […]