Tag Archives: Rapid Release

Updates for configuring your preferred language for “Take notes for me”, recorded captions, and meeting transcripts

What’s changing

We recently announced additional language support for “Take notes for me”, recorded captions, and meeting transcripts. You can now set your preferred language for these features:

From the Calendar invite. Your preferred language will apply to every meeting in a series.
During the meeting when using Google Meet on Android and iOS devices.

Choosing your preferred language from the Calendar invite

Choosing your preferred language during the meeting on a mobile device

Additional details

Available on iOS for:

Gmail: 6.0.250305.1795546
Meet: 298.0.72766

Available on Android for:

Gmail: 2025.04.06.744527406
Meet: 301.0.744527189

Getting started

Admins: Visit the Help Center to learn more about allowing Google Meet AI to take notes for your users. There are no admin controls for recorded captions or meeting captions.
End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about using "Take notes for me" in Google Meet, recorded captions and transcripts in Google Meet.

Rollout pace

Mobile availability:

Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on April 17, 2025

Calendar availability:

Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on April 23, 2025

Availability

“Take notes for me” is available for Google Workspace:

Business Standard and Plus
Enterprise Standard and Plus
Also available with the Gemini Education Premium add-on
Anyone who previously purchased the Gemini Enterprise* and AI Meetings & Messaging* add-ons will also receive this feature.

*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details.

Transcripts are available for Google Workspace:

Business Standard and Plus
Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
Education Plus and the Teaching & Learning Add-on
Workspace Individual Subscribers

Captions included in a meeting recording are available for Google Workspace:

Business Plus and Standard
Education Plus for users with a "Staff" or "Student" license, and the Teaching & Learning add-on
Enterprise Essentials
Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
Workspace Individual Subscribers
Google One subscribers with 2 TB or more storage space

Resources

Source: Google Workspace Updates

Introducing the ability to grade and assign grading labels in bulk in Google Classroom

What’s changing

To further improve grading options for teachers using grading systems in Google Classroom, we recently introduced the ability to perform bulk grading via ‘grade all’. With this new feature, teachers can quickly and efficiently grade all students' work on the Gradebook page by selecting ‘grade all’. They can also choose to override existing grades and automatically return them to students after grading.

Today, we’re excited to announce that teachers can now take bulk grading action on the Student work page in addition to the Gradebook. This update enables teachers to grade and assign grading labels in bulk, ultimately making grading more efficient and saving teachers time.

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
End users:

Once a teacher has set up grading, they can follow these steps to grade all:

Go to Google Classroom > Student Work Page > select multiple students > click the bulk actions menu and select the desired option

Visit the Help Center to learn more about grading & returning an assignment.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on April 16, 2025

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts

Resources

Source: Google Workspace Updates

Control Workspace Business and Enterprise users’ access to new Google Workspace with Gemini features before general availability

What’s changing

In the coming weeks, Google Workspace Business and Enterprise admins will be able to turn on access to Workspace with Gemini alpha features for their users. Turning this on gives your users a head start on leveraging our latest AI features and the opportunity to provide Google with helpful feedback as we develop new features. More information can be found below which can help you decide whether early access is right for your users. We first introduced this option last year for Google Workspace customers who previously purchased a Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Business and AI Meetings & Messaging add-on.

Access to Gemini alpha features can be turned on for all users or a subset of users in specific Organizational Units (OUs) or Groups.

Admin console > Generative AI > Gemini for Workspace > Alpha features

Additional details

Alpha features get the same robust data protection standards that come with all Google Workspace services.
Alpha features are experimental and may not always get things right. We’re looking forward to customers’ feedback to help us improve these features before they’re rolled out to general availability. However, please keep in mind that Alpha features may be changed, suspended or discontinued at any time without prior notice.

Getting started

Admins:

This feature will be OFF by default and can be enabled at the domain, OU, or group level. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning access to Gemini in Workspace apps Alpha on or off.
Please consider the following before configuring Gemini alpha access for your users:

With this launch, Gemini add-on licenses will no longer be required for your users to access Gemini in Workspace apps alpha features. Please ensure the alpha setting is turned ON only for your desired groups or OUs.
Once the Gemini in Workspace apps alpha setting is enabled, users may be granted access to new alpha features at any time — it is not possible to enable a subset of features or opt-out of specific features. We strongly recommend that admins and end users sign up for the Google Workspace alpha community page. Here, you can find the latest Gemini in Workspace apps alpha features, ask questions and provide feedback about the features on this page.
Features may be added to, modified, and removed from alpha at any time — there is no advanced notice of these features appearing for users.
Some alpha features may not roll out to all your selected alpha users.
As these features are not yet generally available, we will not offer full support for these features.
You can also help us improve Gemini in Workspace apps by allowing users at your organization to provide feedback via research studies and surveys.

End users: When enabled by your admin, you’ll be able to test Gemini in Workspace apps features in alpha. Visit our Help Center to see what Gemini features are currently available in alpha and how to sign-up for the Google Cloud Community.

Rollout pace

Admin setting

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for visibility) starting on April 22, 2025

Availability

This update impacts Google Workspace:

Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus

Resources

Source: Google Workspace Updates

Google Classroom is expanding to 7 additional languages

What’s changing

Last month, we announced the ability to use the Google Classroom mobile app in additional languages, and today we’re excited to announce the same languages are also now available with the web experience:

Afrikaans
Assamese
Estonian
French Canadian
Icelandic
Kazakh
Swahili

Additional details

Certain Google Classroom features might not be accessible in all languages, including Read Along in Classroom, Practice sets, Originality reports and Gemini in Classroom

Getting started

Admins and end users:

The language in Classroom is based on a user's language settings for their Google account.
Visit the Help Center to learn more about getting started with Google Workspace for Education and supported languages for Google Classroom.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on April 15, 2025

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus, and the Teaching and Learning add-on, Endpoint Education add-on
Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on

Resources

Source: Google Workspace Updates

Google Docs code blocks now available in additional programming languages

What’s changing

In 2022, we introduced a smart canvas feature that enables you to format and display code in Google Docs with code blocks.

We’re adding support for additional code languages to give even more users the ability to easily visualize code, making more code readable and collaboration much easier. Starting today, users can now format code blocks in the following additional programming languages:

C#
Go
Kotlin
PHP
Rust
TypeScript
HTML
CSS
XML
JSON
Protobuf
Textproto
SQL
Bash/Shell

additional Docs code blocks programming languages

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
End users: To format and display code in a Doc, select Insert > Building blocks > Code blocks > choose your programming language or search @ > Code blocks > choose your programming language. Visit the Help Center to learn more about inserting smart chips & building blocks in your Google Doc.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility starting on April 14, 2025
Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on April 23, 2025

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

Business Standard and Plus
Enterprise Starter, Standard and Plus
Enterprise Essentials Plus
Education Standard and Plus

Resources

Source: Google Workspace Updates

Use Gemini in Google Classroom to generate questions or a quiz based on specific text

What’s changing

Earlier this year, we introduced the ability to generate vocabulary lists with the help of Gemini in Google Classroom. Today, we’re adding a text-dependent question generation tool to further our efforts for AI to help educators save time, create captivating learning experiences, and inspire creativity.

Educators can select a Google Drive file or manually input text, select which skills they want students to demonstrate, then generate questions to assess grade-specific comprehension and critical reasoning skills of students. Once generated, educators can then export the questions to a Google Form or Google Doc to assign to students. This new option can be particularly useful in a variety of scenarios, such as creating an exit ticket or a quiz to check students’ understanding.

Getting started

Admins: Learn more about available pricing and discounts for the Gemini Education add-ons or contact your existing Google Workspace for Education reseller or a Google for Education sales specialist.
End users:

If your admin has assigned you a Gemini Education license, navigate to the “Gemini Education” tab in the navigation bar in Google Classroom to use the text-dependent question generation tool.
Visit the Help Center to learn more about features of Gemini in Classroom and feel free to take this course to learn more about generative AI for Educators.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now.

Availability

Available for Google Workspace for Education customers with these add-ons:

Gemini Education and Gemini Education Premium

Resources

Source: Google Workspace Updates

Save time making changes or updates to AI voiceovers in Google Vids

What’s changing

We recently announced an update that adds AI voiceovers automatically when using Help me create in Google Vids. In continuing our efforts to enhance AI voiceover features, you can now make updates to your scripts and apply changes to your AI voiceovers with one click for every scene in your Vid, whether doing this manually or using Help me create.

Existing AI voiceovers will be automatically replaced and scenes will automatically extend to match the voiceover length. In addition, users are now able to see previews of their end to end scripts in the script panel, making it easier to make edits and apply changes using the 'Generate all voiceovers' button.

Who’s impacted

End users

Why you’d use it

This feature grants you easy access to generate voiceovers for multiple scenes at once to provide you with professional narration across a video. In addition, it saves time replacing existing voiceover generations and extends scenes in your video to match voiceover lengths.

Additional details

Scenes are only extended to match voiceovers, they are not automatically shortened to avoid unintentional removal/cropping of scene content. Only AI Voiceovers generated in Vids will be automatically replaced when generating new voiceovers, existing non-generated audio objects will not be deleted.

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. Vids will be ON by default and can be disabled at the organizational level. Visit the Help Center to learn more about Vids.
End users:

Visit the Help Center to learn more about creating scripts & voiceovers in Google Vids.
Currently, Vids is available in the user’s local language, but the AI features (e.g. Help me create, read-along teleprompter) are only available in English at this time.
Note: View and collaborate access is available to anyone with a Google Workspace account, while create and copy access is available for select editions of Google Workspace customers.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on April 10, 2025

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

Business Standard and Plus
Enterprise Standard and Plus
Essentials, Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus
Customers with a Gemini Business*, Gemini Enterprise*, Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on

*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details.

Resources

Source: Google Workspace Updates

Preview summaries in the Google Chat home view now available in three additional languages

What’s changing

Last year, we announced that Gemini in Google Chat can now help you catch up on unread conversations in the Chat home view with summaries. Recently, we extended this ability to direct messages and read conversations.

Upon navigating to a conversation in home, click the “Summarize” button to see a quick, bulleted synopsis of the message content. This enables you to quickly review recent activity across all active conversations to determine where best to focus your time and attention.

Today, we’re excited to announce that summaries in the home view are now available in three additional languages:

Spanish
Portuguese
German

Who’s impacted

End users

Why it matters

Since introducing a more streamlined user experience in Chat to help you find what you need much faster, we’re adding more ways to help you prioritize the most important conversations. This new summaries in home feature does just that by helping you catch up more quickly.

Getting started

Admins: To access summaries in home, users need to have smart features and personalization turned on. Admins can turn on default personalization setting for their users in the Admin console.
End users: You can turn this feature ON/OFF by turning Smart features & controls in Google products ON/OFF.

To see summaries on web, hover over a 1:1 direct message, group conversation, space, or thread from home in Chat and click “Summarize.”
To see summaries on mobile, long press on 1:1 direct message, group conversation, space, or thread from home in Chat.
Visit the Help Center to learn more about summaries in home.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on April 9, 2025

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

Business Standard and Plus
Enterprise Standard and Plus
Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on

Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature:

Gemini Business*
Gemini Enterprise*
AI Meetings and Messages*

*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details.

Resources

Source: Google Workspace Updates

Reference your Google Calendar using Gemini in the side panel of Gmail in additional languages

What’s changing

Last year, we added Google Calendar to the list of apps that Gemini in Gmail connects with. As a result, users can ask Gemini in Gmail to perform select calendar related actions or answer questions about their calendars such as:

When is my [first event] next week?
Create a [30 min] calendar event for my weekly [yoga class] every [Monday and Wednesday] at [9 AM].
Create a [1h] event for [lunch] [tomorrow] at [noon].

Today, we’re excited to announce this feature is available in more than 20 additional languages:

Arabic
Catalan
Chinese
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Malay
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Vietnamese

Check out our original announcements for using Gemini in the side panel of Gmail to reference your Google Calendar for even more information.

Why you’d use it

Gemini in Gmail can help you:

Create calendar events.
Learn additional details about the existing events in your Calendar.

Additional details

At this time, Gemini in Gmail cannot:

Add or remove guests from events.
Pull up attachments or RSVPs related to a meeting.
Find the best time to meet with other people or find time slots when you’re available to meet.
Create tasks, an out of office, focus times or set working locations.
Add or manage meeting rooms.

Getting started

Admins: To access Gemini in the side panel of Workspace apps, users need to have smart features and personalization turned on. Admins can turn on default personalization setting for their users in the Admin console.
End users:

On web, you can access Gemini in the Gmail side panel by clicking on “Ask Gemini” icon in the top right corner of Gmail.
While not required, just like gemini.google.com, you can invoke Calendar by adding "@Calendar" at the beginning of your prompt in the side panel of Gmail to explicitly call on Calendar.
Visit the Help Center to learn more about collaborating with Gemini in Gmail.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now.

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:
Business Starter, Standard and Plus
Enterprise Starter, Standard and Plus
Google One AI Premium
Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on
Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive this feature:
Gemini Business*
Gemini Enterprise*
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details.

Resources

Source: Google Workspace Updates

Educators can now upload content to Read Along in Google Classroom

What’s changing

In addition to the recent Read Along in Google Classroom feature that provides educators with more visibility into student performance, we’re excited to give them the ability to upload their own content into Read Along as part of the assignment creation process.

Whether there’s a desire to include location-specific content that’s rich in local history and culture or provide materials aligned with geo-specific curriculum, this highly-requested feature expands Read Along’s current library by empowering educators to add content that addresses learners’ needs.

Getting started

Admins:

Existing Workspace Customers (those who signed up for Workspace for Education before July 7, 2024): Read Along in Classroom will be available to all Google Workspace for Education customers as a service that will be covered under the Workspace for Education Terms of Service. You can enable Read Along in the Admin Console for users in your domain to access this service. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Read Along on or off for users.
For new Workspace Customers (those who sign up for Workspace for Education on or after July 7, 2024): Read Along will be automatically enabled in the console, and all eligible users will have direct access to it. Visit the Help Center to learn how to turn Google Read Along on or off for users.

End users: This capability will be available in English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Visit the Help Center to learn more about adding content to Read Along in Classroom.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on April 9, 2025

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

Education Plus and the Teaching and Learning add-on