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 – May 1, 2026
  May 1, 2026
  Move from conversation to creation with file generation in GeminiGemini can now transform your ideas, using conversational prompts, directly into thoughtfully formatted files, such as Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, PDFs and more, directly in your chats with Gemini. | Learn more about how to move from conversation to creation […]
• Google Takeout Transfer now supports Google Photos for Education users
  May 1, 2026
  When users graduate or leave an organization, they can preserve their academic work by using Google Takeout Transfer to take their Google Drive and Gmail content with them. We’re now expanding Google Takeout Transfer to include Google Photos, allowing users to migrate their memories from their school or university-issued Google […]
• New: Agent tools and security updates for Google Workspace developers
  May 1, 2026
  At Cloud Next ‘26, we announced a new suite of agent tools for Google Workspace, including a Workspace MCP server, command line interface (CLI), and remote MCP integrations. Today, we are opening the Workspace MCP server to public developer preview. As AI agents become a central part of how we work, […]
• New ways to customize AI-generated meeting notes
  April 30, 2026
  We are giving users more control over "Take notes for me" in Google Meet with new customization options and an improved Decisions section.“Take notes for me” recently introduced customizations for meeting artifacts, such as the option to set your preferred level of detail for your notes. Now, users can tailor […]
• Workspace audit logs: New functionality and expanded event fields in the Admin console
  April 29, 2026
  Today we’re announcing the release of several enhancements to deepen the security investigation capabilities of the Workspace audit log, including expanded fields across many data sources.These new enhancements include:Introduction of owner details for resource attributeExpansion of resource and actor attributes to additional data sourcesIntroduction of new device info attribute for […]