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 – March 20, 2026
  March 20, 2026
  Easily find and set time zones in Google Calendar by searching for city or countryWe’re introducing an improved time zone picker for Google Calendar on the web. Instead of manually scrolling through the list of options, you can now simply search for and select a specific city or country, making […]
• New ways to customize and interact with your content in NotebookLM
  March 20, 2026
  We’re introducing several updates to NotebookLM that give users more flexibility when uploading sources, new ways to create and edit visuals from NotebookLM and improvements to the interactive study tools.More functions and new visual communication toolsSlide revisions: Users can now revise presentation content, ask for changes or fix any issues […]
• Introducing the new Meetings section in Google Chat
  March 20, 2026
  We’re introducing a dedicated Meetings section in Google Chat—a new way to organize your conversation list and keep your meeting conversations in one place.Previously, meeting conversations lived in your direct messages, often making it difficult to find specific project discussions or meeting notes.You can now group all past and future meeting […]
• Workspace audit logs: New functionality and expanded event fields
  March 19, 2026
  We’re releasing a number of enhancements to Workspace audit logs, including:Log filtering enhancements for Resource fields in the security investigation tool for Gmail and Google DriveUpdated Application and Network fields available in the Workspace audit log integration with Google Security Operations (SecOps)Expanded filtering in the AdminSDK Activities.List methodNew OwnerDetails field […]
• Easily find and set time zones in Google Calendar by searching for city or country
  March 16, 2026
  We’re introducing an improved time zone picker for Google Calendar on the web. Instead of manually scrolling through the list of options, you can now simply search for and select a specific city or country, making it easier to coordinate and schedule with others in different time zones.This improvement is […]