Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals

A flexible and secure foundation for teaching and learning

Education Fundamentals is a suite of secure and easy-to-use tools — provided at no cost — that help improve collaboration, productivity, and class management.

Foster collaboration

Promote productivity

Strengthen digital safety

Foster collaboration across your education community

Make it easy for everyone in your education community to collaborate, communicate, and participate in real time.

Write, edit, and collaborate in real time, add new collaborators, and see changes as they happen in Docs, Sheets, and Slides.

Teach and learn from anywhere using reliable and secure video conferencing with up to 100 participants and easily communicate with students via built-in chat.

Personalize settings for every student, provide live captions, and use Screen Reader, braille readers, and screen magnification.

Promote productivity with time-saving tools

Save time with easy-to-use tools that automate and simplify tasks.

Create and organize classwork, grade tests, and build permission slips, polls and more with Classroom, Assignments, and Forms.

Use built-in rubrics and comment alongside student work to provide feedback that students can easily find and action on.

Automatically save progress in documents, organize files, and alert guardians on activities, deadlines, or missing work.

Strengthen digital safety with privacy and security tools

Use one of the world’s most secure cloud-based communication and productivity suites.

Help keep your institution safe with data practices that support compliance with FERPA, COPPA, GDPR, and more. You retain full intellectual property rights over your data, and Core Services, like Gmail, Calendar, and Classroom, have no ads.

Send secure emails with Gmail, which uses AI-powered protections to block more than 99.9% of spam, phishing and malware from ever reaching you. Safeguard sensitive data in Gmail and Drive with automated data loss prevention (DLP).

Rely on 100 TB of pooled cloud storage, protected in Drive, and retain user data for compliance and discovery in Vault.

Which edition is right for your institution?

Google Workspace for Education solutions offer choice and flexibility. Find the right fit for your education community.

Gmail

Calendar

Meet

Classroom

Docs

Sheets

Slides

Forms

Assignments

Admin

Drive

Gemini app

Groups

Sites

Tasks

Education Fundamentals

Explore
Education Fundamentals

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

Explore
Education Standard

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

Explore the Teaching and Learning Upgrade

Enhanced teaching and learning tools to help educators enhance instructional impact.

Includes features from Education Fundamentals, plus:

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

RECONMENDED

Education Plus

Explore
Education Plus

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

Gemini app - AI assistant with enterprise-grade data protection

¹ Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals is available at no cost for qualifying institutions. Learn more.

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.

75%

of university students prefer Google Workspace as their productivity suite of choice.

Source: Sada Systems, Inc. 23 August 2022

96%

of Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups use Google Workspace..

Resources to help you get started with Education Fundamentals

Learn more about getting started with Google Workspace for Education.

Educator training

This step-by-step training teaches practical strategies for how to use Google tools for in-person learning and classroom management.

View training

Accessibility

Learn about accessibility features designed to help support students who have diverse needs and learning styles.

Learn more

Product guides

Access detailed product guides to gain expertise on how to use Google Workspace for Education.

View guides

The Total Economic Impact report

Check out this study to see the benefits, cost savings, and ROI enabled by Education Plus.

View report

Sustainability

Learn how Google for Education is taking steps to help you meet your sustainability goals.

Learn more

Privacy and security

Google for Education helps create a safer digital learning environment for every school, every classroom, and every student.

Learn more

“Every time I walk into a classroom, students say, ‘we’re going to do something fun today.' The technology allows us so much freedom in our classrooms – it’s unlike anything I’ve seen before.”

“Compared to other video conferencing tools, Meet is easier to use, easier to manage, and more secure. It also has features that helped us get buy-in more easily.”

“We love the efficiency of having all of these functions – meetings and classes, recording, and streaming – performed by the one tool.”

“We realized that the sandboxing feature took away that day-to-day anxiety about security. It’s always working for us in the background – a real set-it-and-forget-it tool.”

Start today with Google Workspace for Education

Connect and collaborate across your whole education community. Choose the edition that best suits you and your institution.

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.

Get Gemini for Google Workspace

Find answers to commonly asked questions

What is the price of this edition?

Education Fundamentals is available without cost for qualified educational institutions. To determine if you qualify, please visit this page.

What’s included in Education Fundamentals?

Please visit our comparison chart to review the full feature set included in Education Fundamentals.

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. Your school’s experience with our tools, as well as our qualifications for new customers to gain access to them, will remain the same.

How much storage does Education Fundamentals offer?

Institutions with Education Fundamentals have a shared pool of 100TB of storage, which they can manage and allocate as they see fit. Please reach out to your admin to explore options for additional storage. Please visit our Help Center for more details.

Where can I learn more?

Visit our Help Center for more details on Education Fundamentals.