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 – February 6, 2026
  February 6, 2026
  New built-in interoperability between Google Meet and Microsoft TeamsWe’re introducing video conferencing device interoperability for Google Meet with Microsoft Teams, which will allow you to: (1) Join Microsoft Teams meetings from Chrome OS- based Google Meet hardware devices, and (2) Join Google Meet meetings from Windows-based Microsoft Teams Rooms devices. | Learn […]
• Get higher access to advanced AI in Google Workspace
  February 5, 2026
  Over the past year, we've launched groundbreaking AI capabilities into our Workspace plans, such as comprehensive Deep Research reports and stunning image generation with Nano Banana Pro. These AI features come with usage limits that are sufficient for many users, but your most innovative teams may want even more.To meet […]
• Expanding access to select Google Vids features for all users
  February 4, 2026
  Google Vids is designed to help users share information and tell stories through video. To help more users create professional-quality content, we are making three features in Vids available to all users, regardless of what Workspace edition they use. These features include: Read-along teleprompter: Allows you to read from a script […]
• Proofread your email with Gemini in Gmail
  February 4, 2026
  When you draft an email, Proofread can suggest improvements beyond spelling and grammar corrections like conciseness, active voice, sentence structure, and word choice so everything is polished before you send. We recently launched this feature to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, and we’re now bringing it to additional Workspace […]
• Google Classroom API: Student groups endpoints are now available
  February 4, 2026
  Last year, we announced the launch of the Google Classroom API Student Groups endpoints through the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program (DPP). Now, Student Groups endpoints are generally available, so developers no longer need to be in the Developer Preview Program (DPP) to access them. Student Groups endpoints enable developers to […]