Google Workspace for Education
Communication and collaboration tools to empower teaching and learning.
Make collaboration easier, streamline instruction, and keep your learning environment secure with Google Workspace for Education.
Use our tools for free, or add enhanced capabilities to suit the needs of your institution.
Why work with a Google Cloud Partner?
Enhance class instruction
Utilize easy-to-use learning tools for better collaboration and connection.
Boost productivity
Save time by creating, organizing, sharing, and grading all in one place.
Elevate student work
Help students turn in their best work with simple tools to support learning.
Protect your school data
Keep everyone’s work, identity, and privacy safe with proactive security features and controls.
COLLABORATE
Foster collaboration for more impactful instruction
Collaborate in real time with Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites, and Jamboard
Communicate with learners, educators, guardians, and administrators from anywhere with Google Meet, Chat, and Gmail
Engage students directly within Classroom to provide clear guidance for doing their best work
Enable an inclusive learning environment with individual accessibility settings that fit each student’s unique learning style
PRODUCTIVE
Empower educators and amplify productivity
Help educators save time with Classroom and Assignments by easily creating courses, organizing classwork, distributing assessments, and sharing rich feedback
Ensure consistent, transparent grading and feedback with rubrics and a comment bank
Help educators streamline workloads by posting and scheduling coursework and building to-do lists in Classroom
Guide original thinking and academic integrity with quick scans to flag citation issues in originality reports
ORIGINALITY REPORTS
Help teachers quickly assess authenticity
Compare student work against hundreds of billions of web pages and over 40 million books with a single click
Highlight potential plagiarism and link to external sources within your grading interface
Get answers quickly and avoid manually searching for web matches
COMPLIANCE
Meet rigorous compliance and accessibility standards
Retain, hold, search, and export user data for compliance and eDiscovery in Vault
Use in compliance with numerous requirements and industry standards including FERPA, COPPA, and GDPR
Reach all types of learners with built-in accessibility tools like closed-caption, Screen Reader, braille readers, screen magnification, and more
Elevate education with simple, flexible, and secure tools with Google Workspace for Education
Make collaboration easier, streamline instruction, and keep your learning environment secure with Google Workspace for Education. Use our tools for free, or add enhanced capabilities to suit the needs of your institution.
Choose the Google Workspace for Education edition that’s right for your institution
Use flexible, secure tools for free with Education Fundamentals, or add the enhanced capabilities you need with Education Standard, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, or Education Plus.
Every edition includes
Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals
Google Workspace for Education Standard
Google Workspace for Education Plus
Education Fundamentals is a free suite of tools for qualifying institutions that enables collaborative learning opportunities through a secure platform.
Includes essential education tools and features like:
- Collaborate in real time with Docs, Sheets, Slides, Sites, and Jamboard
- Help educators save time managing their classes with Classroom and Assignments
- Communicate virtually from anywhere with Google Meet, Chat, and Gmail
- Data loss prevention for Gmail and Drive
- Works in compliance with FERPA, COPPA and GDPR
- 100 TB of pooled cloud storage shared by your organization
Level up with advanced security, analytics and controls to safeguard against evolving digital threats.
Includes everything in Education Fundamentals, as well as:
- Security Center to proactively prevent, detect, and remediate threats
- Manage devices and apps centrally to perform audits and enforce rules
- Gmail log and Classroom log export for insights and analysis in BigQuery
- Audit logs for Drive, devices, LDAP, and more to track usage across your domain
- Same storage as Education Fundamentals
Transform your school with a comprehensive solution incorporating advanced security and analytics, enhanced teaching and learning tools, and more.
Includes everything in Education Standard, as well as:
- Live stream with up to 100,000 in-domain viewers with Google Meet
- Sync rosters directly to Classroom from any Student Information System
- Personalized Cloud Search for your domain to make information accessible and easy to find
- Faster response times from a support team of product specialists
- Same storage as Education Fundamentals
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Google Workspace for Education offers Education Fundamentals to all qualifying institutions at no cost (free). For those that want more premium features, Google also offers paid editions including Education Standard, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Education Plus.
Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals is free for all qualified institutions. Education Standard, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Education Plus are paid editions.
For pricing information and specific features included in each of the Google Workspace for Education editions, please visit our comparison chart.
All editions provide schools with 100TB of storage shared across the institution. Additional storage is provided with the Teaching and Learning Upgrade and Education Plus editions based on the number of licenses purchased. Please review our comparison chart for more details or visit our Help Center.
It depends and varies based on the intended combination of editions.
You must have an Education Fundamentals edition to upgrade to any of the other editions (Education Standard, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, or Education Plus).
You cannot have Education Plus in combination with Education Standard or the Teaching and Learning Update — only Education Fundamentals.
You can have a combination of Education Standard and the Teaching and Learning Upgrade at the same time. Although we believe the maximum value of those combined editions can be realized in Education Plus, we wanted to be as flexible as possible to school community needs.
All paid Google Workspace for Education editions are annual subscriptions, and pricing is locked for the duration of the subscription term.
Customers can add Education Standard at any time (and vice versa) and to Education Plus.
Customers can reevaluate continuing with their subscription or downgrade at the end of their subscription term.
Yes, all customers who have purchased G Suite Enterprise for Education will receive new features and functionality that are released to the new Google Workspace for Education editions.
Yes, contact us to start with trial.