por | Mai 22, 2024 | Noticias
What’s changing
In this hybrid work era, we hear from customers that finding a video conferencing room to join a meeting is often difficult. With “adaptive audio,” you and your team can join Google Meet using multiple laptops in close proximity without awkward echos and audio feedback. This is a great benefit for organizations with not enough video conferencing rooms or without resources for dedicated conference room equipment.
Adaptive audio in Meet will automatically detect the presence of multiple laptops in the room and synchronize the microphones and speakers for a seamless audio experience. This allows teams to create ad-hoc meeting spaces anywhere with just their laptops where everyone can be heard clearly, without the inconvenience of crowding around a single laptop.
Most importantly, adaptive audio gives users the flexibility to join meetings when meeting rooms are not available, meeting room hardware is not working, or for smaller organizations, when there isn’t dedicated video conferencing equipment in every room. This also gives organizations the ability to use non-typical meeting spaces such as lounges, cafes, and other impromptu locations.
The microphone and speakers of each participant are used to ensure everyone can hear and be heard well.
When multiple participants are joining a meeting from the same room, “adaptive audio” is automatically activated. Google Meet notes audio is merged and participants are grouped together in the people panel.
Getting started
Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.End users: This feature will be ON by default and can be turned off by the user by going to Settings > Audio > Adaptive audio. Visit the Help Center to learn more about
using adaptive audio in Google Meet.
Rollout pace
Availability
Available for Google Workspace customers with the Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Business, Gemini Education, Gemini Education Premium, and the AI Meetings and Messaging add-on.
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por | Mai 23, 2024 | Noticias
This announcement was part of Google Cloud Next ‘24. Visit the Workspace Blog to learn more about the next wave of innovations in Workspace, including enhancements to Gemini for Google Workspace.
What’s changing
We’re introducing a new way to manage your communication, including emails, in Google Chat.
After a space manager generates an email address for a space, members (or anyone in your domain with the email address) can send or forward any email to that space. This provides a great way for teams to easily triage or discuss email content with stakeholders within the space. The email will appear as a clickable card showing a snippet of the email in the designated space.
Generate email in space settings
Email card in the space
Who’s impacted
End users
Why you’d use it
Email integration into spaces allows you to choose the communication style that works best for your team. Once the email content is present, members can discuss content or take various actions like triaging and assigning them to different members of the space.
Getting started
Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. End users: As a space manager, you can create the space’s email address by clicking the name of the space in the top left corner > Space settings > Email section > select Generate email Once the email address is created by a space manager, all space members can send/forward emails to the space To send an email to the space, include the space email address in the “to” field of your email composer (in Gmail, Outlook, etc.) Click on ‘View message’ to view the entire email message in Google Groups You can change the email address for your space by going to advanced settings. Visit the Help Center to learn more about
sending emails to spaces in Chat.
Rollout pace
Available to all Google Workspace customers
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por | Mai 23, 2024 | Noticias
What’s changing
Beginning May 23, 2024, Google for Education customers will be able to leverage new and powerful ways of working, teaching and learning with Gemini for Google Workspace with two new paid add-ons:
Gemini Education is a lower price offering best suited to help education institutions get started with generative AI in Workspace, with a monthly usage limit.
Gemini Education will be available as an add-on for Google Workspace for Education: Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Education Plus.
Gemini Education Premium: includes everything in Gemini Education, plus more 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.
Gemini Education Premium will be available as an add-on for Google Workspace for Education: Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Education Plus.
Note that Gemini for Google Workspace features are only available in English, Spanish and Portuguese* for education users over the age of 18.
Who’s impacted
Admins
Why it’s important
Gemini for Google Workspace provides access to our most capable generative AI models widely available across Workspace apps, like Docs, Gmail, Slides, and more. Inside and outside the classroom, you can use Gemini to help transform your work by:
Turning a blank page into a lesson plan template or a grant proposal in DocsCreating an agenda for an upcoming professional development session in SheetsBringing presentations to life or illustrate a topic by creating original images in Slides, and more.
With both add-ons, you’ll also be able to chat with Gemini (
gemini.google.com) safely and securely with enterprise-grade data protection.
Gemini.google.com can help you speed up time-consuming tasks, like conducting research about IT security best practices to creating an alumni outreach plan. It can also help you generate fresh ideas and make learning more personal for your students, like re-leveling content or creating class exercises or assignments based on their interests.
Additional details
Coming soon to Gemini for Google Workspace for Education:
Further data protections
To further our
robust privacy commitments, in the future educators and students 18 years and older will have added data protection when accessing Gemini at
gemini.google.com with their school accounts, free of charge. This added protection ensures that your data is not reviewed by anyone to improve our models, is not used to train artificial intelligence models, or shared with other users or institutions. These protections will be applicable to our free Gemini experience for Workspace for Education customers and will be available in 40+ languages.
OpenStax and Data Commons extensions
Soon, you’ll be able to use Gemini in combination with
OpenStax and
Data Commons, along with guided practice quizzes to help people learn more confidently and with trusted sources. For example you can ask OpenStax to discuss the scientific significance of solar eclipses” to pull in accurate, trustworthy responses based on Rice University’s OpenStax educational resources. Or you can leverage Data Commons to visualize data about complex topics like climate change, jobs, economics, and more. You’ll also be able to work through guided practice quizzes and receive conversational feedback on each of your responses. We’ll provide more information on The Keyword and the Workspace Updates blog when this functionality becomes available.
Piloting Gemini in Classroom
We’re also piloting Gemini in Classroom with new lesson planning features that are informed by
LearnLM, our new family of models fine-tuned for learning, based on Gemini and grounded in educational research. See here for more information on
joining the Google for Education Pilot Program.
por | Mai 23, 2024 | Noticias
What’s changing
We are pleased to announce the launch for additional features of Chat API via the Developer Preview Program, enabling space management at scale on behalf of admin users. These new features, which you can read more about down below, are available to all users currently enrolled in the Developer Preview Program. See here for more information on how to enroll in the Developer Preview program.
Who’s impacted
Admins and developers
Why you’d use it
In 2023, we launched the Space Management tool, which allowed admins to view all the spaces within their organization, understand the activity within those spaces, and perform essential actions like deleting a space or assigning space managers. While finding the tool helpful, admins expressed a desire for more robust tools to perform these tasks faster and at scale, for example, with the help of APIs. Admins can now use the Chat API to find information and manage their spaces in bulk— specifically they’ll be able to:
Audit spaces: Admins can pull a list of all spaces in their organization, which includes detailed information about space settings and metadata like member counts, history setting status, the ability to invite external guests, and more. The list will be exported to a CSV file for further analysis and audit.
Delete inactive spaces in bulk: It’s common to create spaces for projects and initiatives that are only relevant for a specific period of time. As these projects move toward completion, activity in these spaces become inactive or abandoned altogether without deletion. This can result in a huge amount of clutter, making it for end users to navigate and search for relevant spaces, and for admins, making it difficult to audit and take action when managing your spaces. You can now easily detect and delete all inactive or unused spaces, or create an automated cleanup task with the help of Chat API.
However, there are some cases where less active spaces should not be deleted, such as spaces dedicated to quarterly or annual events. In these situations, admins can use the new API functionality to identify space managers so they can reach out and confirm whether a space should be deleted.
User onboarding and offboarding: When a new user joins an organization, it’s important that they’re connected to all relevant spaces, including organization wide spaces or spaces based on specific departments or job roles. Admins can use this functionality to automatically add users to relevant spaces based on specific attributes like their department, role, location, and more.
Conversely, it’s also important to ensure users are removed from spaces when they leave an organization or change roles. Admins can quickly identify all spaces where an outgoing user is a member of and remove them from spaces that are no longer relevant to them.
Audit external members: To monitor and control access to organizations’ data, admins can conduct an audit of membership for a specific user or group of users. Admins can use the Google Chat API to generate a list of all space members — this information, combined with a query to the People API, can assist in identifying a space’s external members. As a result, admins may choose to remove specific users from organization’s conversations. This can be done on a space-by-space basis using the API directly or with the help of your own scripts, adjusted to the unique process in your organization.
We plan to introduce more functionality for managing spaces in the future — stay tuned to the Workspace Updates blog for more information.
Getting started
End users: There is no end user impact or action required.
Rollout pace
por | Mai 16, 2024 | Noticias
This announcement was part of Google I/O ‘24. Visit the Workspace Blog for more about new ways to engage with Gemini for Workspace and the Keyword Blog for more ways to stay productive with Gemini for Google Workspace.
Last year, we introduced AI-powered writing features that help you quickly refine existing work or get you started with something new in Google Docs and Gmail using Gemini for Google Workspace.
Since then, Help me write has assisted numerous users in drafting content for things like emails, blog posts, business proposals, ad copy and so much more. In fact, 70% of Enterprise users who use Help me write in Docs or Gmail end up using Gemini’s suggestions. Today, we’re excited to announce this feature is now available in Spanish and Portuguese.
Help me write in Google Docs using Portuguese
Who’s impacted
Admins and end users
Why it’s important
Users who write in Spanish and Portuguese can now benefit from AI-powered creation in their own language.
Help me write in Gmail using Spanish
Getting started
Rollout pace
Availability
Available for Google Workspace:
Gemini Business, Enterprise, Education, Education Premium Google One AI Premium
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