Products that power education
Google for Education is a suite of cloud-based tools and services that are designed to help educators and students learn and collaborate more effectively. It includes a variety of products, such as Google Workspace for Education (formerly G Suite for Education), Google Classroom, and Google Chromebooks. Google for Education tools work together to transform teaching and learning so every student and educator can pursue their personal potential.
Why Google for Education
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.
170+ million
Google Workspace for Education users
150+ million
Google Classroom users
#1 device globally
Chromebooks have been the top device in
K-12 education since 2021, with 50 million students and educators using Chromebooks worldwide.
Google Workspace for Education Plans
Empower your school community with easy-to-use tools that elevate teaching, learning, collaboration, and productivity – all on the world’s most secure cloud-based communication and productivity suite.
Education Fundamentals
A flexible and secure foundation for teaching and learning with a suite of easy-to-use tools available at no cost.
Education Standard
Advanced security and analytics tools to help reduce risks and mitigate threats with increased visibility and control across your learning environment.
Teaching and Learning Upgrade
Enhance instructional impact with tools that make learning more personalized, create classroom efficiency, and enable teaching and learning from anywhere.
Education Plus
An all-in-one EdTech solution, including all of the security, insights, and teaching and learning capabilities from all other Google Workspace for Education editions and
Google for Education Tools
Google Workspace for Education Editions:
Service availability
Education Fundamentals Education Standard Teaching and Learning Upgrade Education Plus Gmail and Calendar ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Groups for Business ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Chat and chat rooms ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Digital whiteboarding with Jamboard ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Storage and collaboration: Drive, Docs editors ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Sites ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Tasks ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Notetaking with Keep ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Video conferencing with Meet ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Directory management ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Additional Google services ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Google Vault for eDiscovery and information governance ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise (add-on) ✔ ✔ ✔ AppSheet Core ✔ ✔ Google Cloud Search for internal search and assist (across Google and third-party services) ✔*
Integrate third-party repositories in Cloud Search ✔* Index third-party data using Cloud Search ✔*
* For third-party services your organization must have at least 500 user licenses and a Google Cloud Search certified partner.
Usage and support
★ Marks where the Teaching and Learning Upgrade adds value to Education Fundamentals or Standard edition
Education Fundamentals Education Standard Teaching and Learning Upgrade Education Plus Cost Free* Fee per user Allowed number of users Any number Any number 99.9% uptime guarantee ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Standard Support ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔‡ Email, document, photo storage 100 TB pooled storage Additional pooled cloud storage 100 GB per user ★ 20 GB per user ‡
* For qualified educational institutions
‡ Education Plus customers can also purchase Workspace Additional Storage, which adds 10 TB to pooled storage per subscription.
User access options
Education Fundamentals Education Standard Teaching and Learning Upgrade Education Plus Supported browsers ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Access across devices (computers, phones, tablets) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Offline access ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Microsoft Outlook ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ IMAP and POP mail clients ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Security and data protection
Data regions
Education Fundamentals Education Standard Teaching and Learning Upgrade Education Plus Fundamental data regions Set a data region policy for everyone in your organization ✔ ✔ Enterprise data regions Set policies for organizational units or groups ✔ ✔ View data regions move progress ✔ ✔
Migration products
Education Fundamentals Education Standard Teaching and Learning Upgrade Education Plus Migrate email (< 100 users) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Migrate email, calendars, contacts, files (many tools) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Migrate from Gmail or other webmail ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Migrate from Outlook ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Have users migrate their data ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Migrate data with Google Workspace Migrate ✔ ✔
Reports and audit logs
★ Marks where the Teaching and Learning Upgrade adds value to Education Fundamentals or Standard edition
Education Fundamentals Education Standard Teaching and Learning Upgrade Education Plus Usage trends of apps and users ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Audit logs of user and admin activity ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Advanced Drive auditing and reports ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Export reports to BigQuery ✔ ✔ Google Meet attendance reports ✔ ★ ✔ Access Transparency logs of admin activity ✔ ✔
Endpoint management
Device security settings
Education Fundamentals** Education Standard Teaching and Learning Upgrade Education Plus Fundamental endpoint management Basic passcode enforcement (mobile) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Google Credential Provider for Windows (standalone) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Network management
(ChromeOS, meeting room hardware) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Advanced endpoint management* Strong passcode enforcement ✔ ✔ Network management (mobile) ✔ ✔ Mobile device security policies ✔ ✔ Android work profiles ✔ ✔ Enterprise endpoint management* iOS data protection ✔ ✔ Mobile device certificates ✔ ✔ Context-Aware Access ✔ ✔
* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
** Add Endpoint Education Upgrade to Education Fundamentals to get all endpoint management fea
Device management
Education Fundamentals** Education Standard Teaching and Learning Upgrade Education Plus Fundamental endpoint management Basic mobile device management ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Fundamental management for computers ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Endpoint verification ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Company-owned device inventory (endpoints) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Remote account sign-out ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Remote account wipe (mobile) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Block devices ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Drive for desktop ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Advanced endpoint management* Advanced mobile management ✔ ✔ Zero-touch enrollment for Android devices ✔ ✔ Admin approval of devices ✔ ✔ Remote device wipe‡ ✔ ✔ Windows device management ✔ ✔ Enterprise endpoint management* Company-owned device inventory (Android) ✔ ✔ Company-owned device inventory (iOS) ✔ ✔ Mobile device management rules ✔ ✔ BeyondCorp Alliance partner integrations ✔ ✔
* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
** Add Endpoint Education Upgrade to Education Fundamentals to get all endpoint management features
‡ Remote device wipe of Windows 10 devices also requires Windows device management
Mobile app management
Education Fundamentals** Education Standard Teaching and Learning Upgrade Education Plus Fundamental endpoint management Public and private app management (Android) ✔ ✔ Advanced endpoint management* Public app management (iOS) ✔ ✔ Android app runtime permissions ✔ ✔ Selectively distribute mobile apps to users ✔ ✔ Publish private Android web apps ✔ ✔ Managed Android app settings configurations ✔ ✔ Enterprise endpoint management* Private iOS app management ✔ ✔
* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
** Add Endpoint Education Upgrade to Education Fundamentals to get all endpoint management features
Device details
Education Fundamentals** Education Standard Teaching and Learning Upgrade Education Plus Fundamental endpoint management Basic device details (mobile) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Basic endpoint details
(computer & smart home devices) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Basic device reports (Chrome & mobile) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Advanced endpoint management* Advanced device reports (mobile) ✔ ✔ Enterprise endpoint management* Devices audit log ✔ ✔
* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
** Add Endpoint Education Upgrade to Education Fundamentals to get all endpoint management features
3rd-party app integration
Education Fundamentals Education Standard Teaching and Learning Upgrade Education Plus Single sign-on (SSO) using Google as IdP ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Single sign-on (SSO) using a 3rd-party IdP ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ App catalog of 200+ preconfigured SAML apps ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Autoprovisioning of SAML apps (maximum number) Unlimited Secure LDAP: Connect LDAP-based apps and services ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Gmail
Email addresses and mailing lists
Education Fundamentals Education Standard Teaching and Learning Upgrade Education Plus Your email address (you@yourcompany.com) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Additional addresses per user (sales@yourcompany.com) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Addresses at multiple domains (you@company2.com) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Admin-controlled mailing lists ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ User-controlled mailing lists ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Mail merge ✔ ✔
Email usage and limits
Education Fundamentals Education Standard Teaching and Learning Upgrade Education Plus Email storage (shared with documents and photos) 100 TB pooled cloud storage Attachment size limit (sending) 25 MB Attachment size limit (receiving) 50 MB Recipients per message (To, Cc, Bcc fields combined) 2,000 (500 external) Unique recipients per day
(Each unique address counts once.) 3,000 (2,000 external, 500 external for trial accounts)
Email security and compliance
Education Fundamentals Education Standard Teaching and Learning Upgrade Education Plus Junk email filtering and virus blocking ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Gmail ads turned off ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Custom filtering and content policies ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Email and chat retention policies ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Allowed IP addresses ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ User-managed denylists ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Enforced-compliance footers ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Option to disable IMAP & POP access ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Vault for email/IM eDiscovery and archiving ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Gmail data loss prevention (DLP) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ S/MIME encryption for email ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Advanced phishing and malware protection ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Gmail log search in BigQuery ✔ ✔ Malware detection in email attachments (Security sandbox) ✔ ✔ Client-side encryption for email ✔ ✔ Use optical character recognition to read images ✔ ✔
Advanced email delivery options
Education Fundamentals Education Standard Teaching and Learning Upgrade Education Plus Catch-all address ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Email routing options for split and dual delivery ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Inbound gateway ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Outbound gateway (for entire organization) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Outbound relay server (for alternative From: addresses) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Receiving from multiple POP addresses ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Drive and Docs editors
Education Fundamentals Education Standard Teaching and Learning Upgrade Education Plus Drive for desktop ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Turn Docs creation on or off ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Connected Sheets ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Advanced Drive auditing and reports (Drive audit log) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Shared drives ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Drive data loss prevention (DLP) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Smart chip data extraction ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Organizational branding (custom templates) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Help me write with generative AI (Google Docs)* ✔ ✔ ✔ Proofread documents * ✔ ✔ ✔ Create image with generative AI (Slides) * ✔ ✔ ✔ Help me organize with generative AI (Sheets) * ✔ ✔ ✔ Delegate access to Connected Sheets ✔ ✔ Target audience groups (preset sharing options) ✔ ✔ Manage Drive metadata (custom labels and fields) ✔ ✔ Trust rules for Drive sharing permissions ✔ ✔ Client-side encryption for Drive files ✔ ✔ Manage document approvals ✔ Organizational branding (default templates and themes) ** ✔
* Requires verifying your domain and the Duet AI add-on
** Only Google Slides, Forms, and Sites
Groups/Groups for Business
Education Fundamentals Education Standard Teaching and Learning Upgrade Education Plus Email list groups ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Groups for content sharing, calendar invitations ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Collaborative Inboxes and message moderation ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ User managed groups ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Configuration groups for use by admins ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Target audience groups (preset sharing options) ✔ ✔ Inspect group membership ✔ ✔ Restrict group membership ✔ ✔ Dynamic groups (manage membership automatically) ✔ ✔ View members of nested groups (indirect members) ✔ ✔
Google Meet
Education Fundamentals Education Standard Teaching and Learning Upgrade Education Plus Maximum meeting length 24 hours 24 hours 24 hours 24 hours Maximum number of participants per meeting 100 250 1,000 External participants ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Secure meetings ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Presentations and screen sharing ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ App for Android and iOS ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Hand raising ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Raise a room's hand using Meet hardware ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Moderation controls ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Digital whiteboard ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Add Meet video to Microsoft Outlook ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Custom backgrounds ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Closed Captions, viewer initiated ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Add co-hosts to meetings ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Reactions ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Dial in (U.S. & international numbers)* U.S. only ✔ Control Slides presentations ✔ ✔ ✔ Record meetings & save them to Drive ✔ ★ ✔ In-domain live streaming (maximum number viewers) 10k ★
100k
Noise cancellation ✔ ★ ✔ Breakout rooms ✔ ★ ✔ Polls ✔ ★ ✔ Q&A ✔ ★ ✔ Track attendance (requires 2 or more attendees) ✔ ★ ✔ Set recording quality for screen shares ✔ ✔ Live translated captions ✔ ✔ Client-side encryption for audio and video ✔ ✔
★ Marks where the Teaching and Learning Upgrade adds value to Education Fundamentals or Standard edition
Service availability
| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gmail and Calendar | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Groups for Business | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Chat and chat rooms | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Digital whiteboarding with Jamboard | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Storage and collaboration: Drive, Docs editors | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Sites | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Tasks | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Notetaking with Keep | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Video conferencing with Meet | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Directory management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Additional Google services | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Google Vault for eDiscovery and information governance | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise (add-on) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| AppSheet Core | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Google Cloud Search for internal search and assist (across Google and third-party services) | ✔* | |||
| Integrate third-party repositories in Cloud Search | ✔* | |||
| Index third-party data using Cloud Search | ✔* |
* For third-party services your organization must have at least 500 user licenses and a Google Cloud Search certified partner.
Usage and support
★ Marks where the Teaching and Learning Upgrade adds value to Education Fundamentals or Standard edition
| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free* | Fee per user | ||
| Allowed number of users | Any number | Any number | ||
| 99.9% uptime guarantee | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Standard Support | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔‡ |
| Email, document, photo storage | 100 TB pooled storage | |||
| Additional pooled cloud storage | 100 GB per user ★ | 20 GB per user ‡ | ||
* For qualified educational institutions
‡ Education Plus customers can also purchase Workspace Additional Storage, which adds 10 TB to pooled storage per subscription.
User access options
| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supported browsers | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Access across devices (computers, phones, tablets) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Offline access | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Microsoft Outlook | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| IMAP and POP mail clients | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Security and data protection
Data regions
| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fundamental data regions | ||||
| Set a data region policy for everyone in your organization | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Enterprise data regions | ||||
| Set policies for organizational units or groups | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| View data regions move progress | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Migration products
| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Migrate email (< 100 users) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Migrate email, calendars, contacts, files (many tools) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Migrate from Gmail or other webmail | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Migrate from Outlook | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Have users migrate their data | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Migrate data with Google Workspace Migrate | ✔ | ✔ |
Reports and audit logs
★ Marks where the Teaching and Learning Upgrade adds value to Education Fundamentals or Standard edition
| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Usage trends of apps and users | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Audit logs of user and admin activity | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced Drive auditing and reports | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Export reports to BigQuery | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Google Meet attendance reports | ✔ ★ | ✔ | ||
| Access Transparency logs of admin activity | ✔ | ✔ |
Device security settings
| Education Fundamentals** | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fundamental endpoint management | ||||
| Basic passcode enforcement (mobile) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Google Credential Provider for Windows (standalone) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Network management (ChromeOS, meeting room hardware) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced endpoint management* | ||||
| Strong passcode enforcement | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Network management (mobile) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Mobile device security policies | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Android work profiles | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Enterprise endpoint management* | ||||
| iOS data protection | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Mobile device certificates | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Context-Aware Access | ✔ | ✔ | ||
* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
** Add Endpoint Education Upgrade to Education Fundamentals to get all endpoint management fea
Device management
| Education Fundamentals** | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fundamental endpoint management | ||||
| Basic mobile device management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Fundamental management for computers | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Endpoint verification | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Company-owned device inventory (endpoints) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Remote account sign-out | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Remote account wipe (mobile) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Block devices | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Drive for desktop | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced endpoint management* | ||||
| Advanced mobile management | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Zero-touch enrollment for Android devices | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Admin approval of devices | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Remote device wipe‡ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Windows device management | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Enterprise endpoint management* | ||||
| Company-owned device inventory (Android) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Company-owned device inventory (iOS) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Mobile device management rules | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| BeyondCorp Alliance partner integrations | ✔ | ✔ | ||
* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
** Add Endpoint Education Upgrade to Education Fundamentals to get all endpoint management features
‡ Remote device wipe of Windows 10 devices also requires Windows device management
Mobile app management
| Education Fundamentals** | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fundamental endpoint management | ||||
| Public and private app management (Android) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Advanced endpoint management* | ||||
| Public app management (iOS) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Android app runtime permissions | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Selectively distribute mobile apps to users | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Publish private Android web apps | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Managed Android app settings configurations | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Enterprise endpoint management* | ||||
| Private iOS app management | ✔ | ✔ | ||
* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
** Add Endpoint Education Upgrade to Education Fundamentals to get all endpoint management features
Device details
| Education Fundamentals** | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fundamental endpoint management | ||||
| Basic device details (mobile) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Basic endpoint details (computer & smart home devices) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Basic device reports (Chrome & mobile) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced endpoint management* | ||||
| Advanced device reports (mobile) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Enterprise endpoint management* | ||||
| Devices audit log | ✔ | ✔ | ||
* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
** Add Endpoint Education Upgrade to Education Fundamentals to get all endpoint management features
3rd-party app integration
| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single sign-on (SSO) using Google as IdP | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Single sign-on (SSO) using a 3rd-party IdP | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| App catalog of 200+ preconfigured SAML apps | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Autoprovisioning of SAML apps (maximum number) | Unlimited | |||
| Secure LDAP: Connect LDAP-based apps and services | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Email addresses and mailing lists
| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your email address (you@yourcompany.com) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Additional addresses per user (sales@yourcompany.com) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Addresses at multiple domains (you@company2.com) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Admin-controlled mailing lists | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| User-controlled mailing lists | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Mail merge | ✔ | ✔ |
Email usage and limits
| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Email storage (shared with documents and photos) | 100 TB pooled cloud storage | |||
| Attachment size limit (sending) | 25 MB | |||
| Attachment size limit (receiving) | 50 MB | |||
| Recipients per message (To, Cc, Bcc fields combined) | 2,000 (500 external) | |||
| Unique recipients per day (Each unique address counts once.) | 3,000 (2,000 external, 500 external for trial accounts) | |||
Email security and compliance
| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Junk email filtering and virus blocking | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Gmail ads turned off | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Custom filtering and content policies | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Email and chat retention policies | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Allowed IP addresses | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| User-managed denylists | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Enforced-compliance footers | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Option to disable IMAP & POP access | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Vault for email/IM eDiscovery and archiving | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Gmail data loss prevention (DLP) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| S/MIME encryption for email | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced phishing and malware protection | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Gmail log search in BigQuery | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Malware detection in email attachments (Security sandbox) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Client-side encryption for email | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Use optical character recognition to read images | ✔ | ✔ |
Advanced email delivery options
| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catch-all address | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Email routing options for split and dual delivery | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Inbound gateway | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Outbound gateway (for entire organization) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Outbound relay server (for alternative From: addresses) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Receiving from multiple POP addresses | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Drive and Docs editors
| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drive for desktop | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Turn Docs creation on or off | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Connected Sheets | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced Drive auditing and reports (Drive audit log) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Shared drives | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Drive data loss prevention (DLP) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Smart chip data extraction | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Organizational branding (custom templates) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Help me write with generative AI (Google Docs)* | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Proofread documents * | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Create image with generative AI (Slides) * | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Help me organize with generative AI (Sheets) * | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Delegate access to Connected Sheets | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Target audience groups (preset sharing options) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Manage Drive metadata (custom labels and fields) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Trust rules for Drive sharing permissions | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Client-side encryption for Drive files | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Manage document approvals | ✔ | |||
| Organizational branding (default templates and themes) ** | ✔ |
* Requires verifying your domain and the Duet AI add-on
** Only Google Slides, Forms, and Sites
Groups/Groups for Business
| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Email list groups | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Groups for content sharing, calendar invitations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Collaborative Inboxes and message moderation | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| User managed groups | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Configuration groups for use by admins | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Target audience groups (preset sharing options) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Inspect group membership | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Restrict group membership | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Dynamic groups (manage membership automatically) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| View members of nested groups (indirect members) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maximum meeting length | 24 hours | 24 hours | 24 hours | 24 hours |
| Maximum number of participants per meeting | 100 | 250 | 1,000 | |
| External participants | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Secure meetings | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Presentations and screen sharing | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| App for Android and iOS | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Hand raising | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Raise a room's hand using Meet hardware | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Moderation controls | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Digital whiteboard | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Add Meet video to Microsoft Outlook | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Custom backgrounds | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Closed Captions, viewer initiated | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Add co-hosts to meetings | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Reactions | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Dial in (U.S. & international numbers)* | U.S. only | ✔ | ||
| Control Slides presentations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Record meetings & save them to Drive | ✔ ★ | ✔ | ||
| In-domain live streaming (maximum number viewers) | 10k ★ | 100k | ||
| Noise cancellation | ✔ ★ | ✔ | ||
| Breakout rooms | ✔ ★ | ✔ | ||
| Polls | ✔ ★ | ✔ | ||
| Q&A | ✔ ★ | ✔ | ||
| Track attendance (requires 2 or more attendees) | ✔ ★ | ✔ | ||
| Set recording quality for screen shares | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Live translated captions | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Client-side encryption for audio and video | ✔ | ✔ | ||
★ Marks where the Teaching and Learning Upgrade adds value to Education Fundamentals or Standard edition
| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turn chat history on or off | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Set space history option for users | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automatically accept chat invitations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| External chat for 1:1 and group direct messages | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Allow or restrict external chat | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Allow or restrict Chat apps | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Turn external spaces on or off | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Integrate Chat with a third-party archiving solution | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Use discoverable spaces | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Chat data loss prevention (DLP) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automatically delete Chat messages for your organization | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Control file sharing in Chat | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Moderate Chat content | ✔ | ✔ |
| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team calendars | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Resource booking (rooms, buildings, equipment) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Add video conferencing to events | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automatically add events to calendars | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Sync calendars with Microsoft Exchange | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Set a default duration for events | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Set up appointment schedules | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automatically free unused meeting rooms | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Allow users to share working location | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Let users view analytics about their time allocation | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Client-side encryption for event descriptions | ✔ | ✔ |
Classroom and Assignments
★ Marks where the Teaching and Learning Upgrade adds value to Education Fundamentals or Standard edition
| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Originality reports for student assignments | 5 assignments per course | Unlimited ★ | ||
| Peer comparison on originality reports | ✔ ★ | ✔ | ||
| Practice sets | ✔ ★ | ✔ | ||
| Designate users with analytics data access | ✔ | |||
| Designate users with temporary class access | ✔ | |||
| SIS roster import | U.S. only | |||