Available in alpha: use Gemini in the side panel of Workspace apps in seven additional languages

What’s changing

You can now use Gemini in the side panel of Google Docs, Google Sheets, Gmail, and Google Drive in seven additional languages:

GermanItalianJapaneseKoreanPortugueseSpanishFrench 

The additional languages are available in alpha for Workspace customers with a Gemini Business, Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Education, and Gemini Education Premium add-on. Admins can use our Help Center to learn more about turning access to Gemini for Google Workspace Alpha features on for your users.

With Gemini in the side panel of your Workspace apps, you can get help summarizing, analyzing, and generating content by utilizing insights gathered from your emails, documents, and more—all without switching applications or tabs. For more information, please refer to our original announcements for Gemini in the side panel of Docs, Sheets, and Drive, as well as Gmail respectively.

Getting started

Admins: Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning access to Gemini for Google Workspace Alpha on or off. End users: If your admin has enabled access to alpha features, you can now use the Gemini side panel in more languages. Access the side panel by clicking on “Ask Gemini” (spark button) in the top right corner of Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Drive on the web. Visit the Help Center to learn more about collaborating with Gemini in Google Drive, Gmail, Docs, and Sheets. Note that for accessing other Gemini for Google Workspace features that are supported in English only, you will need to set your Google Account language to English.

Now generally available: Migrate users’ emails from Google Workspace, Gmail and other IMAP enabled mail servers

What’s changing 

In March 2024, we launched an open beta for the ability to migrate your users’ email data from Google Workspace, Gmail, or IMAP enabled mail servers to another Google Workspace account. This includes the ability to run delta migrations, to smartly bring over newly generated or modified emails from the source without duplicating previously migrated content. 
Beginning today, this data migration experience is now generally available, helping admins migrate email data in a more secure, reliable, and efficient manner.
Admin console > Data > Data Import & Export > Data Migration

Additional details

You can find more information in our Help Center about migrating other forms of data from different types of source accounts.

Getting started

Super Admins: Visit The Help Center to learn more about the new data migration service, and more specifically:How to migrate email from a Google Workspace account, and directly in the Admin console at admin.google.com/ac/migrate/googleworkspaceHow to migrate email from a Gmail account, and directly in the Admin console at admin.google.com/ac/migrate/gmailHow to migrate email from an IMAP account and directly in the Admin console at admin.google.com/ac/migrate/imap

Note that the existing Data Migration Service app continues to be available in Admin Console at the same link as before: admin.google.com/ac/dms

End users: There is no end user action required.

Rollout pace

Available now.

Availability

Available to Google Workspace:Business Starter, Standard, and PlusEnterprise Standard and PlusEducation Fundamentals, Standard, Plus, and the Teaching and Learning UpgradeEssentials Starter, Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials PlusNonprofits

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Google Drive inventory reporting is now generally available

What’s changing 

Earlier this year, we launched Google Drive inventory reporting in beta — beginning today, this feature is generally available. Compared to APIs, exporting inventory reports to BigQuery empowers admins to understand their data more deeply, providing insights into how their data is classified, accessed, and used. Understanding these metrics can help admins to identify security risks, ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, and more. For more information, please reference our original announcement
Alongside general availability, we’re pleased to announce new functionality: 
When generated, inventory reports will follow the data regions settings established by admins. Within reports, you can now view the email address of the file creator, what organizational unit the file owner belongs to, and inherited permissions for shared drive items. For greater admin visibility into inventory reporting related actions, audit events are now captured for configuration updates, configuration deletion & creation, as well as completed and failed reports.

Getting started

Admins: Visit the Help Center to learn more about Drive inventory reporting.End users: There is no end user impact or action required.

Rollout pace

Availability

Available* for Google Workspace:
Enterprise Standard and PlusEducation Standard and PlusEnterprise Essentials PlusCloud Identity Premium
*Note that this availability refers to the ability to generate a report. All end users will be included in the report and are not limited to any specific Google Workspace edition.

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Google Classroom now supports exporting missing and excused grades to select Student Information Systems (SIS)

What’s changing

Last year, we introduced the ability for teachers to mark an assignment for a particular student as “excused” instead of giving it a 0-100 score. We also added the ability to manually mark an assignment as “missing” or “complete” and automatically add a default draft score. 
These updates give teachers even more flexibility when it comes to grading for assignments and classwork, and today we’re excited to announce that teachers can include missing and excused grades when exporting grades to their Student Information Systems (SIS). 

Getting started 

Rollout pace 

Availability 

Available for Google Workspace:
  • Education Plus and the Teaching & Learning Upgrade 

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New density setting in Google Chat

What’s changing 

To give users more control over how they see information in Google Chat, we’re introducing a new setting that allows you to control the visual density of screen elements. Choose between “Comfortable” or “Compact” on chat.google.com
  • Comfortable mode, the default setting, reflects Chat’s modernized design, in line with Google Material Design 3, and clearly differentiates message bubbles.
  • Compact mode is for users who prefer to see more information at a time with less scrolling. With this option, you’ll notice: 
    • Message bubbles that are aligned in the same direction for both sender and recipient 
    • Wider message bubbles 
    • Padding in the left bar, conversation list, and home. 
density settings in Chat

Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users
    • To modify density settings, go to chat.google.com > Settings > Density > Compact. Users can revert this to the default at any time by going to chat.google.com > Settings > Density > Comfortable. 
    • Those who use Compact density setting in Gmail will also see Chat in Gmail in compact mode. Users can adjust their Gmail and Chat-in-Gmail density settings by going to Gmail > Settings > Density. 
    • Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Compact mode in Google Chat.

Rollout pace 

  • Rapid Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on October 30, 2024 
  • Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on December 2, 2024 

Availability 

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

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