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.

• Daily Exports for Google Drive inventory reporting is now available in open beta
  August 28, 2025
  What’s changing Google Drive Inventory reporting now supports scheduling a daily export of your Drive data assets to BigQuery, in addition to the existing weekly cadence. Compared to APIs, exporting inventory reports to BigQuery empowers administrators to understand their data more deeply, providing insights into how their data is classified, accessed, […]
• Convert images to video with Veo 3 in Google Vids
  August 27, 2025
  What’s changing With this launch, you can upload an image into Google Vids and input a prompt to convert the image into a high quality eight-second video with sound. This experience uses Veo 3 to create dynamic and engaging content effortlessly by transforming product photography, logos, and more from static shots […]
• Deliver your message with AI avatars in Google Vids
  August 27, 2025
  What’s changing Starting today, you can deliver a polished and consistent message by writing a script and choosing an AI avatar to deliver your content in Google Vids. Simply go to vids.new, click “AI Avatars”, type a script in the AI avatar right side panel, choose a persona, and Vids will generate […]
• Edit videos more easily using the transcript in Google Vids
  August 27, 2025
  What’s changing Following our recent announcement of balance sound in Google Vids, we’re excited to introduce an additional editing feature that effortlessly refines your videos and audio. We know it's common for people to record themselves and later discover distracting pauses, and “uhms” and “uhs.” Or, after recording, you could decide you […]
• Gemini in Google Sheets helps you create dynamic and easily referenced tables
  August 27, 2025
  What’s changing Building on the introduction of intelligent suggestions for table conversion, we’re now using Gemini to make tables in Sheets even more useful. Now, when you accept a “Convert to table” suggestion, Gemini will automatically format your data as a table and create a meaningful table name (e.g., Project_Status).Tables help […]