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What’s changing
Earlier this year, we announced Google Vids, the newest productivity app in our suite of Google Workspace products. Vids is an AI-powered video creation app for work designed to help teams in customer service, learning and development, project ops and marketing tell more engaging stories at work through video.
Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Google Vids for select Workspace editions. Here’s how you can use it:
- Customer service teams are using Vids to provide better customer support, supplementing help center articles with videos.
- Leaders are creating vids to share company-wide updates and announcements.
- Learning and development teams are using Vids to deliver employee training and education at scale.
- Marketers are using vids inside their organizations to share recaps on their campaigns and events.
- Project management teams are building vids to share meeting recaps, business updates and report share outs.
With Vids, you can easily build videos by tapping into the power of Gemini to help you get to a first draft faster using a set of generative AI capabilities. ‘Help me create’ can generate a fully editable initial storyboard using a prompt and a doc from your Google Drive. After choosing a style, Gemini pieces together your video draft with suggested scenes, including recommended stock media, text, scripts per scene, and even a background music track.
With ‘Help me create’, Gemini suggests scripts to get you started or you can write your own. You can easily add
a voiceover by either choosing from one of Gemini’s preset AI voices or by recording your own voice using a teleprompter with Gemini read-along and rolling features that help you record your message with confidence. You can also use the Vids’ in-product
recording studio to:
- Add a video recording of yourself.
- Add a screen recording with narration.
- Add a screen recording with video recording.
- Add audio-only recording.
Similar to other productivity tools like Docs, Sheets, and Slides, Vids includes a simple, easy-to-use interface and the ability to collaborate in real-time and share projects securely from your browser.
In summary, Vids enables you to produce engaging videos that help scale your message, build connections and break through the noise across your organization.
Who’s impacted
End users
Why you’d use it
We know that creating and editing video has felt challenging because in the past it has required special skills or licensing, but with Google Vids the power of storytelling is in your hands. Now teams can build and tell compelling stories at work, scaling and landing their message to engage coworkers in an effective way.
Additional details
Users will have full access to AI-powered features* in Google Vids like “Help me create” and AI voiceovers until at least December 31, 2025.
Usage limits for these AI-powered features may apply beginning in 2026. We’ll notify you before any change goes into effect.
To learn more about Vids features and capabilities for Google Workspace for Education customers, refer to this
Workspace Updates Blog.
Getting started
- Admins: Vids will be ON by default and can be disabled at the organizational level. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Vids on or off for users and new core services coming to Google Workspace.
- End users:
- To start, open Google Vids and choose an option to create a new video. You can create a new video or make a copy of an existing video for editing. Visit the Help Center to learn more about getting started with Google Vids.
- You can use Vids on your computer with the two most recent versions of these browsers:
- You can access our always-on resources in the Google Workspace Learning Center to learn what you can do with 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 and Gemini for Google Workspace customers.
Rollout pace
Availability
Available for Google Workspace:
- Business Standard and Plus
- Enterprise Standard and Plus
- Essentials, Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus
- Education Plus*
- Customers with a Gemini Business, Enterprise, Education* or Education Premium* add-on
*Please refer to the following Workspace Updates Blog to learn more about Vids availability for Google Workspace for Education customers.
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What’s changing
Earlier this year, we announced Google Vids would soon empower educators and students to easily create and collaborate with video. Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Google Vids for Education Plus and Gemini for Workspace customers.
Vids can help deepen learning opportunities, up-level instruction, and inspire the next generation of storytellers in a variety of scenarios, for example:
- Educators can support diverse learning styles and help students retain information with instructional videos and deep dives on complex concepts.
- Students can work on video projects and review recorded lessons.
- Education leaders can easily incorporate video in their school newsletters and create internal training videos for staff.
Similar to other productivity tools like Docs, Sheets, and Slides, Vids includes a simple, easy-to-use interface and the ability to collaborate in real-time and share projects securely from your browser. You can easily get started with a variety of templates organized by use cases to create a new video. From there, you can add motion with animations, transitions, and photo effects, and customize your video using the Vids royalty free education-friendly stock content library or your own media directly from Google Drive or Google Photos. Vids is also integrated with Workspace tools like Google Classroom, empowering educators to easily assign video projects or post video explainers right to their students. As detailed here, Google Vids is a core Workspace Service covered under the Google Workspace for Education terms of service.
Users 18 years and older with a Gemini Education or Education Premium add-on will also have access to Gemini in Vids, giving them the ability to produce polished videos even faster with the help of AI. ‘Help me create’ can generate a fully editable initial storyboard using a prompt and a doc from your Google Drive. After choosing a style, Gemini pieces together your video draft with suggested scenes, including recommended stock media, text, scripts per scene, and even a background music track.
Getting started
- Admins:
- End users:
- To start, open Google Vids and choose an option to create a new video. You can create a new video or make a copy of an existing video for editing.
- You can use Vids on your computer with the two most recent versions of these browsers:
- Dive into Google Vids with our free, self-paced online training course, designed specifically for educators and available now in the Google for Education Learning Center. You can also leverage this one pager to get a quick summary of what you can do with Vids.
- Currently, Vids is available in the user’s local language, but the AI features (e.g. Help me create a video, read-along teleprompter) and templates are only available in English at this time.
- Visit the Help Center to learn more about getting started with Google Vids.
- Note: Create and copy access is available for Education Plus and Gemini for Google Workspace customers, while view and collaborate access is available to anyone with a Google Workspace for Education license.
Rollout pace
Available for Google Workspace:
- Education Plus
- Customers with a Gemini Education or Education Premium add-on
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What’s changing
Beginning today, all users* can use Gemini in the side panel of Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Drive, and Gmail, in seven additional languages:
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Portuguese
- Spanish
Gemini in the side panel of Gmail in Spanish
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. Check out our original announcements for Gemini in the side panel of
Docs, Sheets, and Drive, and
Gmail for even more information.
*Available for Workspace customers with a Gemini Business, Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Education, and Gemini Education Premium add-on.
Additional details
- While Gemini in the side panel of Docs, Sheets, Drive, and Gmail, is generally available in these additional languages – as we keep rolling out more Gemini alpha features in the side panel, end users with Gemini alpha features turned on may continue to see the “Alpha” badge.
- Image generation is not supported yet in these additional languages.
- Gemini in the side panel of Slides is only available in English at this time.
Getting started
- Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
- End users: You can access the side panel by clicking on “Ask Gemini” (spark button) in the top right corner of Docs, Sheets, Drive, and Gmail on the web. Visit the Help Center to learn more about collaborating with Gemini in Docs, Sheets, Drive, and Gmail. 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.
Rollout pace
Availability
Available for Google Workspace customers with a:
- Gemini Business or Enterprise add-on
- Gemini Education or Education Premium add-on
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What’s changing
Starting today, when you’re viewing a Google Meet live stream, you will be able to see chat messages that are sent by participants who have joined via the meeting link. This update helps ensure that information shared through Meet chat messages — like links to relevant documents, time-keeping messages, and more — are also visible to live-stream attendees, making meetings more equitable. Previously, in-call chat messages were only visible to hosts, co-hosts, participants and viewers who were in the main meeting. Once you receive the update, you’ll see a notification the next time chat messages are sent during a live stream. When you click the notification, the chat panel will open.
Chat messages viewed from a live stream
Getting started
Rollout pace
Important note: this feature will roll out at a much slower pace than usual as we approach the end of the year. We will update this post to confirm when rollout has completed for Fast and Rapid release tracks respectively.
- Rapid Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 18, 2024. We anticipate that rollout will be completed sometime during the week of December 5, 2024.
- Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on January 6, 2024. We anticipate that rollout will be completed by end of Q1 2025.
Availability
- The following Google Workspace editions can initiate a live stream:
- Enterprise Starter, Standard, Plus and Enterprise Essentials Plus
- Education Plus, and the Teaching & Learning upgrade
- Anyone can view a live stream.
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4 New updates
Unless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both Rapid and Scheduled Release at the same time. If not, each stage of rollout should take no more than 15 business days to complete.
Apply black & white filter to Google Drive scans on Android devices
In August, we announced that you can now save files scanned in the Google Drive Android app as a .JPEG. This week, we’re excited to introduce an additional scanning option that gives you the ability to apply a black & white filter on your document scans. This new filter helps enhance texts and other important elements, ensuring they are sharply defined when compared to the background region. | Rolling out now to
Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains. | Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about
scanning files with your mobile device.
AI Classification now supports Field Selection for Model Training
When
AI Classification first launched, Labels eligible for model training needed to have a single field of either a badge or option-list field type, and Labels with multiple fields were ineligible. Now, customers that use AI Classification will be able to select which badge or option list field they would like to train a model for after identifying the target label. Once trained and enabled, the AI model will automatically apply the label and will only populate the selected field. | Roll out to
Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains is complete. | Available to customers with the AI Security add-on, Gemini Enterprise add-on, and Gemini Education Premium. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about
Label Google Drive files automatically using AI classification. Reducing noise from unfollowed threads in Google Chat
In order to make it easier to identify which unread threads are most relevant to you, we’re reducing the noise by removing visual cues from threads that you do not follow in Google Chat. Starting this week, new activity, such as unread messages from threads you
do not follow, will no longer bold and appear at the top of your conversation lists. | Rolling out now to
Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains on web and mobile at an extended rollout pace (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility). | Available to all Google Workspace customers.
Introducing a better filter by condition experience for tables in Google Sheets
Tables in Google Sheets will now provide users with a smarter
filter by condition experience. Sheets offers 21 options for users to filter by condition, such as “Date is” or “Text ends with”. However, we know there are scenarios in which certain filters might not be applicable based on the type of data in a spreadsheet. Based on the set column type, users will now only see relevant filter by condition options. For example, if your column type is set to number, the filter options will be number-based only. | Roll out to
Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains is complete. | Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about
sorting & filtering your data.
Previous announcements
The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog earlier this week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.
Refine emails faster with updates to the “Polish” shortcut in Gmail
We’re expanding the Help me write shortcut to web and introducing a Polish shortcut on web and mobile that helps you refine emails even faster. | Learn more about
email shortcuts in Gmail. Google Classroom now supports exporting missing and excused grades to select Student Information Systems (SIS)
New density setting in Google Chat
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. | Learn more about
density settings in Chat.Context Aware Access insights and recommendations are now generally available
We’re making it easier to apply context-aware access (CAA) policies with new insights and recommendations. We’ll proactively surface potential security gaps and suggest pre-built CAA levels which admins can deploy to remediate the security gaps. | Learn more
Context Aware Access insights.
FedRAMP High authorization for Gemini for Workspace
As recently announced, we submitted our package to obtain FedRAMP High authorization for Gemini for Workspace, including the Gemini app. A FedRAMP High certification assures federal agencies in the United States that a cloud service provides the highest level of protection for their most sensitive data, enabling them to confidently leverage cloud technologies for critical operations. | Learn more about
FedRAMP High authorization for Gemini.
Gemini in the side panel of Google Chat is now available
We’re expanding Gemini in Chat to help users collaborate more effectively in their spaces, group messages and direct messages. | Learn more about
Gemini in the side panel of Chat. Data classifications labels for Gmail are now available in open beta
In addition to Google Drive, we’re expanding data classification labels to now include Gmail. Classification labels are used to classify and audit content according to organizational guidelines (“Sensitive”, “Confidential”, etc.) and apply policies, such as data loss prevention (DLP) rules, to protect sensitive information in email messages. Classification labels will be available when using Gmail on the web – support for Gmail on mobile devices will be introduced in the coming months. | Learn more about the
beta for data classifications labels for Gmail.
Completed rollouts
Rapid Release Domains:
Scheduled Release Domains:
Rapid and Scheduled Release Domains:
For a recap of announcements in the past six months, check out What’s new in Google Workspace (recent releases).
