What’s changing 

We’ve added several new features to Google Meet in Classroom, making it easier and more secure: 

• The Class Meet link is now accessible on the side of the class stream, so students can easily join and teachers can manage the link from the stream. 
• Students will be directed to a waiting room until a teacher has officially joined the class Meet link. 
• Guests not on the class roster will have to “ask to join” and be admitted by the teacher before they can participate, so no unintended participants join the meetings. 
• All designated co-teachers for a class will automatically be co-hosts in the meeting. This moderation tool will enable co-hosts to start the meeting with the same Meet link without the class teacher needing to be present. 

Who’s impacted 

Teachers and student end users 

Why it matters These features make it easier for teachers to manage meetings, help prevent unintended meeting participants from joining meetings, and generally help meetings run more smoothly. Overall, teachers and students will have a smoother and more secure experience while using Google Classroom and Google Meet. 

Additional details 

Please note that after a Meet link is generated, if a co-teacher is added or removed, you must regenerate the Meet link to update the host status. We are working on changing this functionality so the host status auto-updates, and hope to implement the change by the end of the year. 

You can follow this Forum post to stay updated on the progress of the rollout, get additional tips, FAQs and other useful updates on this launch. 

Getting started 

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature, but Google Meet must be turned on for these features to be available in Google Classroom. Learn more about how to set up and manage Meet and use Meet for distance learning.
• End users: These features will be ON by default for new meetings created in Google Classroom. Users with existing class Meet links should reset the link to get this updated functionality. Visit the Help Center to learn more about starting a video meeting for education. 

Rollout pace 

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on October 4, 2021. 

Availability 

• Available as a core service to Google Workspace Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Education Plus. 
• Available as an additional service to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Frontline, and Nonprofits, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers 

Resources 

• Google Help: Start a video meeting for education
• Google Forum: Rollout progress, additional tips, FAQs

Roadmap 

• This feature was listed as an upcoming release.

With Google Secure Data Connector, employees you specify can interact with authorized data from your on-premise applications within Google Sites, Google Docs and custom App Engine applications, even when employees aren't on your corporate network.

Editions included:
Premier and Education Editions

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
To download and begin using the Google Secure Data Connector, administrators should sign into the administrative control panel, go to 'Advanced tools' and follow the links under the 'Secure Data Connector' section.

Learn how to upgrade to Google Apps Premier Edition to use this feature.

For more information:
http://code.google.com/securedataconnector/

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Administrators can now view charts on active users and disk space utilization from the control panel.

Editions included:
Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to the administrative control panel, go to the 'Advanced Tools' tab, click 'View Usage and Reports' in 'Reporting'.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/03/charts-charts-charts.html

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10GB of Google Video storage is now included on an ongoing basis for each school with Education Edition. Before, video storage was included at no charge for schools on a trial basis.

Businesses with Premier Edition still get 10GB plus an additional 500MB for each user account.

Editions included:
Premier and Education Editions

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Video to upload and share videos at http://video.google.com/a/example.com, but remember to replace "example.com" in this address with your actual domain name.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/03/10-gigs-of-virtual-class-or-virtual.html

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The Provisioning API for user and group management has been updated to allow Premier, Education and Partner Edition admins to take advantage of the new functionality of Google Apps groups, including per group sending permissions and groups that contain other groups.

Editions included:
Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
Learn more about the Provisioning API on the Google Code site (link below).

For more information:
http://code.google.com/apis/apps/gdata_provisioning_api_v2.0_developers_protocol.html

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Administrators can now set minimum and maximum password length requirements for their users, and view visual indicators of the strength of their users' passwords.

Editions included:
Premier and Education Editions

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
Administrators can access these features from the administrative control panel under 'Advanced Tools' > 'Advanced Password Settings'.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-layer-of-data-access-security-for.html

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Google Apps administrators can now link their Google Analytics accounts to Google Apps, providing administrators with usage data for Google Docs and Google Sites.

Editions impacted:
Premier and Education Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to the administrative control panel, go to the 'Advanced Tools' tab, click 'Setup Google Analytics' and enter the profile ID number from your Google Analytics account to begin collecting usage data. Sign in to Google Analytics to view and analyze the data.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2008/11/google-analytics-for-google-apps.html

Premier and Education Edition administrators can now use OAuth authentication to access GData feeds for users on their domains. Using OAuth, administrators can act on behalf of end-users without any end-user involvement.

Editions impacted:
Premier and Education Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Premier and Education Edition admins can enable OAuth in the 'Authentication' section of the 'Advanced tools' tab of the Google Apps administrative control panel.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=61017

Schools using Education Edition can now share videos privately and securely among faculty and staff with Google Video. Videos can be uploaded, shared with specific permissions, and watched by authorized viewers with no special hardware or software. Each school gets 3GB of video storage per user account, but admins must first whitelist specific users to give them permission to upload videos. Google Video is available for free trial in Education Edition until March 9, 2009, at which point it will cost $10 per user, per year.

Editions impacted:
Education Edition

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Education Edition administrators can enable Google Video by signing in to the control panel, clicking 'Add more services' and then 'Add it now'. Administrators using a non-English version of the control panel must temporarily switch to the 'Next Generation' English version of the control panel to enable Google Video. Google Video will remain enabled after switching back to the non-English version of the control panel.

Once enabled, Google Video is available for whitelisted Education Edition users at http://video.google.com/a/example.com, but remember to replace "example.com" with your actual domain name.

For more information:
http://google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=106620

Google Apps Education Edition is now available at no cost to registered 501(c)(3) organizations in the US.

Editions impacted:
Education Edition

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Visit the Google Apps landing page for non-profits and sign up. (see link below)

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/npo/index.html