There are lots of exciting features coming to Google Workspace for Education, below you can find all of the premium Education Plus features.
In a major milestone recently announced in early 2026, Google has made core generative AI capabilities available to Education Plus customers at no additional cost for users aged 18 and older.
(Note: Institutions needing even higher AI limits, custom AI agents via Workspace Studio, or advanced features like Deep Research and Gems can purchase the Google AI Pro for Education add-on).
Education Plus significantly upgrades the digital classroom experience for educators and academic leaders.
Education Plus offers the highest limits and most interactive features for virtual learning and remote administration.
This tier provides a proactive, enterprise-grade approach to identifying and neutralizing digital threats.
You can lock the file and ask the recipient to approve the already drafted content.
Request and capture eSignatures in Google Docs and Drive.
Search across Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, and more.
Let everyone in your organization build applications without coding.
Easily send professional-looking emails to large audiences.
Create rich video content with Google Vids - a powerful online video editor infused with Google Gemini technology - from Google Workspace.
So they can collaborate with other users to analyze data and run queries.
Share items with a more specific or limited audience rather than your entire organization.
Let users view analytics about their time allocation.
Add a timer or stopwatch to a Google Doc using the smart chip feature.
Use building blocks to insert templates that help you track projects, files, and more in Docs.
AI assistant with enterprise-grade data protection.
Direct AI assistance natively embedded into Google Docs, Slides, Forms, and Gmail (e.g., generating lesson plan drafts, creating custom images for presentations, or drafting parent communications).
The advanced "Proofread" feature in Gmail goes beyond basic spelling to suggest improvements for tone, conciseness, and clarity.
Full access to Google Vids, an AI-powered video editor infused with Gemini. Features include AI avatars, image background removal, read-along teleprompters, stylized captions, and transcript trimming.
Transform teaching content into interactive assignments with built-in hints, can import from Google Forms.
Compare student work against the web and your school-owned repository.
Let teachers check student files against other student submissions.
Designate users with temporary class access.
Gain visibility into student performance and engagement.
Access your favorite third-party tools right within Classroom.
Easily distribute standardized curricula or classroom content to others in your organization.
Set up grading periods to better plan, organize, and analyze assignments and grades.
Create customizable grading scales (numerical, letter grade, proficiency, four-point grading scales, or set up your own).
Export grades from Classroom to your SIS.
Set up a Google Classroom class using information directly imported from an SIS, including co-teachers, student rosters and class lists, grading categories and grading periods.
Host up to 1,000 active participants in a single Google Meet.
100k maximum number of viewers
Engage students with breakout rooms, Q&A, polling, and attendance tracking.
Enterprise-grade noise cancellation, translated captions in 65+ languages, and automatic meeting transcriptions and recordings saved directly to Google Drive.
(New in 2026) Built-in interoperability allows users to seamlessly join Teams meetings from Google Meet hardware, and vice versa.
Control Google Slides presentations within Google Meet. You can also make other people in the video meeting co-presenters.
Includes real-time screen monitoring, direct resource sharing, and live accessibility tools to keep students focused.
Reinforce concepts with self-paced video lessons in Google Classroom.
Mail merge lets you personalize messages with merge tags, such as @firstname and @lastname.
Assign reading assignments effortlessly and get insights into the overall class performance and individual students reading performance.
Find the information you need at work—from anywhere, using your laptop, mobile phone, or tablet.
Expand the content your organization searches in Google Cloud Search.
Ability to search for your third-party indexed data on Google Cloud Search.
Manage AppSheet in your organization.
Use filters in the Data Export tool to export data from specific organizational units, groups, or users.
View instant reports on file exposure, authentication, and settings.
Identify, triage, and take action on security and privacy threats.
Monitor the configuration of your security-related Admin console settings—all from one location.
Create policies for who can access apps based on user identity, location, device security status, and IP address.
Get real-time security alerts and insights on phishing, malware, and other threats.
Automatically scan email attachments to identify potential malware.
Choose a geographic location for your data
Data region policy for specific organizational units will apply only to users within organizational units.
See how things are progressing as data moves from one region to another.
Control if and when messages sent through Google Chat are deleted automatically.
Control how your users share files and images in Google Chat.
Users in your organization can report messages that violate your organization’s guidelines.
Export Google Workspace logs and usage reports to Google BigQuery
Track attendance and view Live stream report.
View a record of actions that provide information about the actions of Google staff when they access your data.
Encourage users to share items with a more specific or limited audience rather than your entire organization.
Use the Groups list in your Google Admin console as your main hub for managing your organization’s groups.
Create groups that manage membership automatically.
Each user’s license adds to your organization’s pool.
Create custom labels to apply to files stored in Drive.
Create granular policies to control who can get access to Google Drive files.