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 6, 2026
  March 6, 2026
  Improved join permission logging for Google Meet Audit eventsGoogle Meet Audit event logging for endpoints will now also include the permission type used to grant access to join a meeting. | Learn more about improved join permission logging for Google Meet Audit events.Workspace admins can allow Gemini app conversation sharing […]
• New dynamic data source support for dropdowns in Google Chat apps
  March 6, 2026
  Developers can now build more robust and efficient Google Chat apps using dynamic data sources for dropdown menus. With this update, developers can connect dropdowns to external data sources that query and filter results in real-time as a user types, addressing previous scalability issues caused by dropdown menus being limited […]
• Improving the connection between Google Calendar events and Google Meet calls
  March 4, 2026
  For each video call, Meet attempts to connect the right Calendar event to determine:Who receives meeting records (ex. Gemini notes, recordings)Who is included in the continuous meeting chat in Google ChatWho can join the meeting without having to be manually admitted by the hostReusing the same meeting code across multiple […]
• Workspace admins can allow Gemini app conversation sharing for their organizations
  March 4, 2026
  Google Workspace admins can now enable users in their organization to share their Gemini chat conversations by creating public links to share and publish. Previously, this capability was only available to users with personal Google accounts; this update expands access on web to Gemini users with a work or school […]
• Improved join permission logging for Google Meet Audit events
  March 2, 2026
  Google Meet Audit event logging for endpoints will now also include the permission type used to grant access to join a meeting.For some endpoint types, additional information will be logged in addition to the join permission type:For users who asked to join a meeting, the audit event will show which […]