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GOOGLE WORKSPACE FOR EDUCATION
Empower educators with tools to t r a n s f o r m e d u c a t i o n
Secure your learning environment, enhance instructional impact, and prepare students for the future with Google Workspace for Education.
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Easy to use
Empower your educators with easy-to-use tools so they can focus on teaching and reduce the need for professional development.
Private and secure
Protect your education community with tools that are secure by default and private by design.
Prepares students
Equip your students with the skills they need to thrive in higher education and the workforce.
Enables consolidation
Invest in a comprehensive solution and reduce the need for other EdTech.
Teach and learn with the confidence that your digital learning environment will work as it should.
Provide an equitable learning environment for your entire education community.
Sustainable
Built on the world’s first carbon-neutral cloud, Google Workspace for Education is designed to be easy on the planet.
Real-time collaboration and time-saving tools help everyone stay focused on teaching and learning.
Which edition is right for your institution?
Google Workspace for Education solutions offer choice and flexibility. Find the right fit for your education community.
Assignments
Education fundamentals.
for qualifying institutions
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A suite of tools that enables collaborative learning opportunities on a secure platform. 1
Includes teaching and learning essentials, like:
Collaboration with Classroom, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Gmail, Drive, Meet, Sites, Chat, and Calendar
Security and administrative tools in the Google Admin console
100 TB of pooled cloud storage shared by your organization
Gemini app - AI assistant with added data protection
Education Standard
per student, per year
Get one staff license at no charge for every four student licenses.
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Advanced security and analytics to help you proactively protect your community from digital threats.
Includes features from Education Fundamentals, plus:
A unified security dashboard to take a more proactive security posture
Centralized control and visibility to prevent, detect, and remediate security threats
No-code, custom apps with AppSheet Core
Deeper analytics and powerful data visualizations
Gemini app - AI assistant with enterprise-grade data protection
Teaching and Learning Upgrade
per staff license, per month
or $48 USD per license when billed annually
Choose how many of your staff need licenses.
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Enhanced teaching and learning tools to help educators enhance instructional impact.
Classroom features to deliver more enriched and personalized learning
Tools to save educators time by simplifying class and school management
Premium engagement features in Meet including interactive Q&As, polls, breakout rooms, and more
Additional Drive storage for each staff license
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Education Plus
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An all-in-one solution with advanced security and analytics, teaching and learning features, and more.
Includes features from all other editions, and more:
Advanced security and analytics to help you proactively protect your community from digital threats
Additional enhanced teaching and learning tools to help educators enhance instructional impact
Personalized Cloud Search for your domain to make information accessible and easy to find
Additional Drive storage for each staff and student license
1 Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals is available at no cost for qualifying institutions. Learn more .
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Google provides industry-leading privacy and security
phishing attempts are blocked by Gmail, every day
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unsafe websites are identified by Google, every week
You own your data
You retain full intellectual property rights over your data and control who can download it and when.
Strict privacy protocols
Privacy is core to how we build our products, with rigorous privacy standards guiding every stage of product development.
No advertising
Core services, like Gmail, Calendar, and Classroom, have no ads.
Supports compliance with FERPA, COPPA, GDPR, and more
Our solution supports compliance with rigorous global privacy and security requirements.
A suite of secure, easy-to-use tools designed for teaching and learning
Empower educators to create courses, manage classes, and get insights on student activity with Classroom.
Engage with up to 1,000 participants in Google Meet with features like breakout rooms, Q&A and polling, live translated captions, and more.
Easily distribute, analyze, and grade student work with Assignments for your LMS.
Manage your entire organization with comprehensive and easy-to-use tools in the Admin console.
Docs, Sheets, and Slides
Seamlessly collaborate in real time using Docs, Sheets, and Slides.
Google Meet
Google assignments, google admin, google docs, prepare your students for college, career, and life.
Build a thriving educational community that provides students and faculty with the skills and technology they need today—and tomorrow.
of university students prefer Google Workspace as their productivity suite of choice. Source: Sada Systems, Inc. 23 August 2022
of Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups use Google Workspace.
Education Plus Impact Calculator
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Product demos
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See how institutions are using Google Workspace for Education
Giving teachers more freedom in the classroom
McGuffey School District, Pennsylvania
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Providing academic, social, and secure lifelines
Charley Butcher University of Lynchburg, Virgina
Easy-to-use, flexible, and secure tools for your organization
Karl Bernard Academies Enterprise Trust, United Kingdom
Stronger email security that you can depend on
Upper Dublin School District, Pennsylvania
Teach and learn with sustainability
Reduce your school’s emissions and reach sustainability goals with initiatives and solutions from Google for Education.
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The total economic impact report.
Check out this study to see the benefits, cost savings, and ROI enabled by Education Plus.
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Accessibility
Learn about accessibility features to support students with diverse needs and learning styles.
Educator training
This step-by-step training teaches practical strategies for how to use Google tools for in-person learning and classroom management.
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Paid Workspace resources
Check out our collection of resources to help you set up and get started using your paid edition.
Sustainability
Learn how Google for Education is taking steps to help you meet your sustainability goals.
Privacy and security
Google for Education helps create a safer digital learning environment for every school, every classroom, and every student.
Start today with Google Workspace for Education
Connect and collaborate across your whole school community. Choose the edition that best suits you and your institution.
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Gemini for Google Workspace
Gemini is an AI assistant across Google Workspace for Education that helps you save time, create captivating learning experiences, and inspire fresh ideas — all in a private and secure environment. Gemini for Google Workspace can be added to any Google Workspace for Education edition.
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Find answers to commonly asked questions
What editions does google workspace for education offer.
Google Workspace for Education offers Education Fundamentals to all qualifying institutions at no cost. For those that want more premium features, Google also offers paid editions including Education Standard, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Education Plus.
How much does each edition within Google Workspace for Education cost?
For pricing information and specific features included in each of the Google Workspace for Education editions, please visit our comparison chart .
Are there differences in storage across editions?
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 Visit our Help Center .
Can I have more than one edition at the same time?
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 Upgrade — 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.
Are discounts available and/or are there incentives for longer term commitments?
Yes, Google offers automatic discounts for customers that contractually commit to a multi-year purchase (two years or more) of Google Workspace for Education Plus. To learn more, please connect with your Google Workspace for Education partner reseller and/or Google for Education representative.
When upgrading to a paid edition of Google Workspace for Education (Plus, Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and/or Standard), will I need to sign a new Workspace for Education Terms of Service agreement?
No, there is no need for a new Workspace for Education contract nor an addendum.
Can I upgrade/downgrade between the editions?
Customers who purchase the Teaching and Learning Upgrade can add Education Standard at any time (and vice versa) as well as upgrade to Education Plus.
Customers can reevaluate continuing with their subscription or downgrade at the end of their subscription term.
What is the duration of a paid Google Workspace for Education subscription?
All paid Google Workspace for Education editions are available as annual subscriptions, and pricing is locked for the duration of the subscription term. However, institutions can also purchase the Teaching and Learning Upgrade on a monthly subscription, as an alternative to purchasing it as an annual subscription.
How is Education Fundamentals different from G Suite for Education?
Education Fundamentals is the new name for G Suite for Education. If your school is using G Suite for Education today, you don’t have to take any action to transition to Education Fundamentals. 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. Your school's experience with our tools, as well as our qualifications for new customers to gain access to them, will remain the same.
Is it possible to trial the paid Google Workspace for Education editions?
Yes, our authorized Google Workspace for Education partners can provision 60 day trials for Education Plus, Education Standard, and the Teaching and Learning Upgrade. 50 licenses are provided for the trial. If you don’t have a partner, you can find a partner in our Partner Directory .
Where can I learn more?
Visit our Help Center for more details on Education Fundamentals.
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Google Workspace for Education overview
Google Workspace for Education is a suite of Google tools that empower schools and universities to secure their learning environments, enhance instructional impact, and prepare students for the future. Google Workspace for Education offers multiple options to meet your organization’s needs.
Google Workspace for Education editions —Editions are licensed for your entire domain and comprise a suite of secure, easy-to-use tools designed for teaching and learning, like Gmail, Docs, Classroom, Slides, Drive and more.
Google Workspace for Education add-ons —Add-ons build on editions to provide specific users in your domain with additional functionality. You need an existing Workspace edition to purchase an add-on.
Google Workspace for Education licenses —Workspace provides different types of licenses - each with different functionality - to help you better manage your users.
You can find more information about the different types of editions, add-ons, and licenses below.
Google Workspace for Education editions
- Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals —A foundational suite of secure and easy-to-use tools — provided at no cost — that help improve collaboration, productivity, and class management. Provides access to apps like Google Docs, Classroom, Meet, Gmail, Forms, Chat and more.
- Google Workspace for Education Standard —A paid edition that builds on the functionality of Education Fundamentals and helps you proactively protect your education institution from digital threats with advanced security and analytics tools.
- Google Workspace for Education Plus —A paid edition that is our most comprehensive solution, including everything in Education Fundamentals and Standard and more, providing advanced security and insights and easy-to-use tools that enrich and personalize learning.
Education Fundamentals is free of charge to all qualifying institutions. Education Standard, and Education Plus are paid subscriptions.
Google Workspace for Education add-ons
- Gemini Education —Gemini is an AI-powered assistant that can help you save time, create captivating learning experiences, and inspire fresh ideas — all in a private and secure environment. Gemini Education embeds Gemini across Workspace apps - like Gmail, Docs and Slides - and provides access to Chat with Gemini Advanced using our most capable AI models widely available today. Gemini Education is a lower price offering to help education institutions get started with generative AI in Workspace, with a monthly usage limit.
- Gemini Education Premium —Includes everything in Gemini Education, plus additional advanced features like AI-powered note-taking and summaries in Meet, AI-enhanced data loss prevention and more coming soon. This add-on provides full access and usage of generative AI tools in Workspace.
- Teaching and Learning Upgrade —Builds on the functionality of Education Fundamentals or Education Standard and helps educators enhance instructional impact with tools that enrich and personalize learning, create classroom efficiency, and enable teaching and learning from anywhere. Adds premium capabilities in Google Classroom, enhanced video-communication capabilities in Meet, and more.
- Endpoint Education Upgrade —Adds advanced device management features to your Education Fundamentals edition.
- Google Workspace Additional Storage —Increases your pooled storage in Google Drive 10TB increments.
All Google Workspace for Education add-ons are paid subscriptions.
Google Workspace for Education license types
Each Google Workspace for Education edition and add-on has an associated license. For example, Education Fundamentals licenses provide access to all of the products and features included in the Education Fundamentals edition. Additionally, there are 2 more types of licenses coming in 2025:
- [Coming Soon] Gmail Only User —This license allows users who don’t need access to all of the tools in Google Workspace for Education to keep access to Gmail. For example, this might be helpful for Education institutions who want to provide Gmail access to their growing alumni base while limiting the impact they have on the domain's storage quota.
- [Coming Soon] Archived User —This license ensures that a user’s data is retained and protected by the same security as users with an Education Fundamentals license, but prevents them from accessing Google Workspace for Education services. This is helpful when a user leaves your institution; when an admin assigns an Archived User license to an Education Fundamentals or Gmail Only User, it frees up their Education Fundamentals or Gmail Only User license for another user in their domain.
Gmail Only User and Archived User licenses will be free of charge when they launch later in 2025.
Related topics
- Qualifications for Workspace for Education
- Compare Education editions
- Education editions FAQ
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