Starting today, you’ll notice a refreshed user interface in Google Calendar that is in line with Google Material Design 3 and includes: 

Controls (like buttons, dialogs, and sidebars) that are more modern and accessibleInterface typography that uses Google’s custom-designed and highly-legible typefaces Iconography that is legible and crisp, with a fresh feel We’re also introducing the ability to toggle between light mode, dark mode or device default theme options. This will provide you with a more comfortable, customizable viewing experience and can also reduce battery usage. 

These updates are applicable across the entire calendar web experience, including the task list view. When using the tasks.google.com URL, you will be redirected to the refreshed user interface and have the ability to choose between light or dark mode. 

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. End users: To turn on dark mode in Calendar, go to the settings icon in the top right corner > Appearance > select Light, Dark or Device default. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Dark theme in Calendar. Given this launch is a visual refresh to Google Calendar, it may impact the experience of installed Chrome extensions that are active when using Google Calendar. As a result, these extensions might not work as expected. We recommend contacting the developers of those extensions to report any potential issues. 

Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on October 23, 2024 Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on December 2, 2024 

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

Starting today, you’ll notice a new look and feel, and enhanced functionality for the video player within Google Drive that makes it easier and more enjoyable to watch your videos. More specifically, this update includes: 

A modernized look with cleaner lines, intuitive controls, and a less cluttered viewing experience, all in line with Google Material Design 3.Improved controls for fast forward and rewind buttons that give you more control over playback. In addition, it is now easier to adjust playback speed and manage captions. Consistency across Workspace through similar video experiences in Google Drive and Google Vids, the upcoming video editor. 

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about storing & playing video in Google Drive. 

Rollout pace

Rapid Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on October 22, 2024 Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on November 18, 2024 

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

Resources 

Since its introduction earlier this year, Gemini in the side panel of Gmail has helped many users generate, find and respond to information in their inbox. In addition, Gemini in Gmail has the ability to connect with other Workspace apps like Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive, helping users complete tasks without ever leaving Gmail. 

Today, we’re excited to add Google Calendar to the list of apps that Gemini in Gmail connects with. Users can now ask Gemini in Gmail to perform calendar related actions or answer questions about their calendars such as: 

• When is my [first event] next week? 
• Create a [30 min] calendar event for my weekly [yoga class] every [Monday and Wednesday] at [9 AM]. 
• Create a [1h] event for [lunch] [tomorrow] at [noon]. 

Who’s impacted 

End users 

Via Gmail, Gemini can now help you: 

• Create calendar events. 
• Learn additional details about the existing events in your Calendar. 

At this time, Gemini in Gmail cannot: 

• Add or remove guests from events or create events by extracting information from an email. 
• Pull up attachments or RSVPs related to a meeting. 
• Find the best time to meet with other people or find time slots when you’re available to meet. 
• Create tasks, an out of office, focus times or set working locations. 
• Add or manage meeting rooms. 

When these features do become available, we will provide an update via the Workspace Updates Blog. 

• Admins: To access Gemini in the side panel of Workspace apps, users need to have smart features and personalization turned on. Admins can turn on default personalization setting for their users in the Admin console. 
• End users:
• On web, you can access Gemini in the Gmail side panel by clicking on “Ask Gemini” icon in the top right corner of Gmail. 
• This feature is only available in English at this time. 
• While not required, just like gemini.google.com, you can invoke Calendar by adding “@Calendar” at the beginning of your prompt in the side panel of Gmail to explicitly call on Calendar. 
• Visit the Help Center to learn more about collaborating with Gemini in Gmail. 

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 13, 2024, with expected completion by December 6, 2024

Available for Google Workspace customers with these add-ons: 

• Gemini Business 
• Gemini Enterprise 
• Gemini Education 
• Gemini Education Premium 
• Google One AI Premium 

• Google Help: Collaborate with Gemini in Gmail

Earlier this year, we introduced a new comments experience in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides on web. Today, we’re announcing a similar update to Android tablets for viewing, navigating, and replying to comments, especially on-the-go. In addition to improved design and filtering functionality to match the web experience, you’ll now be able to easily: 

Keep a pulse on the latest updates: now you’ll see the first comment and the two most recent replies from a comment thread, with the option to show all comments within a discussion.Review comments with full context: enjoy familiar, in-context commenting, similar to the web experience, while taking advantage of larger screen real estate on tablets. Navigate and filter comments: navigation tabs and filters within the comments panel help you easily find relevant comments, without having to switch to a separate view.

Getting started 

Rollout pace 

Availability 

Resources 

We’re excited to announce Gemini in Google Chat can now help you catch up on unread conversations in the Chat home view with summaries. 

Upon navigating to an unread conversation in home, click the “Summarize” button to see a quick, bulleted synopsis of the message content. This enables you to quickly review recent activity across all active conversations to determine where best to focus your time and attention. 

End users 

Since introducing a more streamlined user experience in Chat to help you find what you need much faster, we’re adding more ways to help you prioritize the most important conversations. This new summaries in home feature does just that by helping you catch up more quickly. 

Summaries in the home view are available for any group conversation, space, or thread in home that contain unread messages. 

Admins: To access summaries in home, users need to have smart features and personalization turned on. Admins can turn on default personalization setting for their users in the Admin console. End users: You can turn this feature ON/OFF by turning Smart features & controls in Google products ON/OFF. To see summaries on web, hover over an unread group conversation, space, or thread from home in Chat and click “Summarize.” To see summaries on mobile, long press on an unread group conversation, space, or thread from home in Chat. Visit the Help Center to learn more about summaries in home.

Web,  Android & iOS:

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on October 21, 2024 

Available for Google Workspace customers with these add-ons:

Gemini Business, Enterprise, Education, Education Premium AI Meetings & Messaging 

Pronouns are now displayed in Google Meet

Previous announcements

We have paused the rollout for this feature while we evaluate performance and quality. We will provide an update with new rollout information as soon as possible.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

Resources

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.

Additional details

Getting started

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.

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). 

• Admins: Once an admin establishes a connection between their SIS and Google Classroom, teachers can include missing and excused grades when they export grades from Classroom to their SIS. Visit the Help Center to learn more about connecting your Classroom to your SIS. 
• End users: If your admin has connected to your SIS, you can export missing or excused grades by going to classroom.google.com > select the class > “Grades” > “SIS export.” Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Classroom with your SIS, exporting grades to your Student Information System (SIS) gradebook. 

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on October 29, 2024 

Available for Google Workspace:

• Education Plus and the Teaching & Learning Upgrade 

• Google Help: Connect Classroom to your Student Information System (SIS) 
• Google Help: Export grades to your Student Information System (SIS) gradebook 
• Google Help: FAQ for Student Information System (SIS) integration for teachers 
• Google Help: FAQ for Student Information System (SIS) integration for admins 
• Google Help: Get started with Student Information System (SIS) roster import