We’re excited to announce beta support for Drive for desktop on Windows 11 devices powered by Snapdragon processors. Compiled natively for ARM64, this release enables users to easily sync and store files online from Windows PCs powered by Snapdragon. 

To opt-in to the beta, download and install the beta version of Google Drive for desktop on Arm-compatible Windows 11 device powered by Snapdragon. If you wish to opt-out at any time, disconnect your account and then uninstall the application. 

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
• Endverbraucher:
• The beta version of Google Drive for desktop can only be installed on devices running Windows 11 and requires Microsoft WebView2, which is typically included with Windows 11. If it is missing or was previously removed, our installer will recommend you download and install it. 
• Note: This is a beta version and may contain bugs. It should be used with non-production data only. Alternatively, ensure that your data is backed up separately. 
• Should you encounter any issues, please submit feedback through the application. Kindly include logs to facilitate troubleshooting and assist us in improving the application. 

• Verfügbar für alle Google Workspace-Kunden, Workspace-Einzelabonnenten und Nutzer mit persönlichen Google-Konten 

• Google Help: Contact Google Drive support 
• Google Help: Use Google Drive for desktop

Building upon AI-powered features such as help me write, image generationund more using Gemini in Google Docs, we’re excited to introduce a new way for users to create highly structured, styled, and visually-appealing documents with Gemini. 

Today, we’re introducing help me create, a new feature that lets you build a full document using content in Drive from a single, custom prompt. Simply click to create at the top of a new document or go to File > New > Help me create to get started. After describing the document you want to create, which includes the option to pull in content from your files using “@ filename”, Gemini will transform your blank page into a long-form document with cover images, in-line images, stylized text, tables, content from your Drive files, and more. 

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Help me create is designed to help you get started with a first draft of your document. For example: 

• A marketing manager at a CPG company can create a launch plan for a new product using the following prompt: Create a marketing plan to support the launch of a new line of coffee flavors. Include timing, owners, deliverables, and create a cover image that shows different types of coffee. 
• A manager can create a vision document to keep their team on track by telling Gemini: Create an overview document of our team charter and goals based on [Team charter brainstorm notes], and include a cover image that shows team bonding in an office setting. 
• A small business owner specializing in eco-friendly products can create a proposal for a new client by typing: Create a proposal for my new client using the deliverables listed in [Customer meeting notes – November 30, 2024]. Outline the scope of work, pricing, and timing, and create a cover image that shows eco-friendly cleaning products and inline images. 

You can also choose from a variety of starter prompts to expedite the creation process for common document use cases. For example, you can select: 

• A roadmap for a product launch that includes strategy breakdowns and outlines key milestones, timelines, and initiatives (with the option to include images for each feature). 
• A party planning checklist with a timeline of tasks, milestones, deadlines, and dependencies. 
• A template for a 15-minute daily standup meeting with teammates that includes a table for each individual to leave their updates. 

• Admins: To access this feature, users need to have smart features and personalization turned on. Admins can die Standard-Personalisierungseinstellungen für ihre Benutzer in der Verwaltungskonsole aktivieren. 
• Endverbraucher: 
• Help me create is currently supported on pageless documents only, is only available in English at this time, and does not currently incorporate web search results. 
• Besuchen Sie das Hilfezentrum und erfahren Sie mehr über creating documents with Gemini in Google Docs, which includes tips on how to write prompts to create documents. 

• Rapid Release Domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on December 10, 2024 
• Geplante Freigabedomänen: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on December 16, 2024, with expected completion by January 9, 2025 

Verfügbar für Google Workspace-Kunden mit diesen Add-Ons: 

• Zwillinge Business, Enterprise, Education, Education Premium 
• Google One AI Premium 

Ressourcen 

• Google-Hilfe: Mit Gemini in Google Docs zusammenarbeiten 
• Google Help: Create documents with Gemini in Google Docs

Die Google Classroom API enables third-party developers to manage classes, rosters, invitations and more in Google Classroom. Since 2019, teachers have been able to create or reuse a rubric for an assignment, however this capability did not previously exist in the Classroom API. To improve upon this experience, we’re excited to announce that developers can now manage assignment rubrics via the Klassenzimmer-API. 

More specifically, developers can read and write rubrics using the API, and also see student submission scores broken down by the corresponding rubric criteria, rather than just accessing the total score, enabling deeper insights into student performance. 

Admins und Entwickler 

This update enables developers to create and manage rubrics on behalf of teachers at scale, and retrieve rubric-based grades to support more holistic student performance insights. 

• Admins: The Classroom API provides a RESTful interface for you to manage courses and rosters in Google Classroom. Learn more about the Überblick über die Klassenraum-API. 
• Die Entwickler:
• Visit the following developer resource to learn more about getting started with rubricsdie general structure of a rubric and how rubric grading is done in the Classroom UI. 
• As part of this change, the Eligibility API has been extended to enable developers to determine which users are able to take advantage of the new rubrics endpoints. 

• Jetzt verfügbar. 

Verfügbar für Google Workspace: 

• Education Plus 

• Google-Hilfe: Übersicht über die Classroom-API 
• Dokumentation für Entwickler: Die Klassenzimmer-API 
• Developer Documentation: Get started with rubrics

Erste Schritte

Tempo der Einführung

Verfügbarkeit

Ressourcen

Today, Google Drive developers rely on the drive.file scope and the Google Picker API to optimize user experience and safety when creating their applications. 

To make it faster and easier for users to provide applications access to specific Drive files, the Google Picker API will introduce a new method to the Class view called setFileIds(fileIds). This method lets application developers present users with a picker that is pre-navigated to the specified file IDs the application is seeking access to, allowing faster consent for your users and a more continuous experience for your application. 

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
• Die Entwickler: If you have a user interaction such as a chat interface where a user already provided the FileId that they want to open using your application, you can now provide that FileId via the View class and Google will prompt the user to grant you OAuth access directly to that file or files. 
• Endverbraucher: There is no end user setting for this feature. 

• Bereiche für schnelle Freigabe und planmäßige Freigabe: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on January 20, 2025 

• Verfügbar für alle Google Workspace-Kunden und Workspace-Einzelabonnenten 

• Google Workspace Admin-Hilfe: Verwenden Sie DLP für Drive, um Datenverluste zu verhindern

In continuing our effort to make Google Chat your home for team collaboration, we’re excited to introduce a fast and flexible way to connect: huddles. 

Powered by Google Meet, huddles let you start an audio-first meeting, making real-time collaboration easier than ever. Once the huddle has started, you can resize or drag the window, add video, or share your screen for a fuller meeting experience while multitasking in Chat. 

Huddles provide a seamless collaboration experience across Chat and Meet, and can be useful in a variety of scenarios, such as two colleagues syncing quickly to discuss a project they’ve been messaging about in their Chat stream. 

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Huddles help to reduce meeting fatigue for hybrid workers, and eliminates the need for lengthy discussions over email or in Chat. Instead of jumping out of the conversation and into a meeting, huddles integrates directly and smoothly into the Chat experience. The format of huddles also supports multi-tasking while in Chat as you can easily resize or share your screen. 

The Meet video button that’s currently in the compose bar of Chat is moving to the Chat header, giving you multiple options such as the ability to call, start a huddle, or share a Meet link through a single entry point. 

• Admins: If Meet is turned OFF for users in your domain, they will not be able to create Huddles, but they can join Huddles. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning on Meet meetings and calls for your organization. 
• Endverbraucher:
• Huddles are available in direct messages, group messages and spaces. 
• To start a huddle in Chat, click the Video icon in the top right corner of your chat message > select Start a huddle. 
• Huddles start audio only as default but you can turn video on at any moment. 
• When you’re requested to join a huddle, you will see a chat chip in your message thread that says [user] has started a huddle, click “Join” to enter the huddle. You will also see the huddles toggle in the Chat header for that conversation. 
• Besuchen Sie das Hilfezentrum und erfahren Sie mehr über huddles in Google Chat. 

• Rapid-Release-Bereiche: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 27, 2024, with expected completion by December 20, 2025 
• Geplante Freigabedomänen: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on January 6, 2025 

Verfügbar für Google Workspace: 

• Business Starter, Standard, and Plus 
• Unternehmen Starter, Standard, and Plus 
• Frontline Starter and Standard 
• Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus 
• Nonprofits 

Ressourcen 

• Google Workspace Admin-Hilfe: Aktivieren Sie Meetings und Anrufe für Ihr Unternehmen 
• Google Help: Learn about huddles in Google Chat

Im Jahr 2023, we introduced a streamlined file organization with the new Google Drive location picker on web. Now, we’re rolling out similar improvements to the Drive app on Android devices. This update will make it easier to find recently viewed Drive items and clearly see what other storage locations besides “My Drive” are available to you, such as items you have access to within shared drives. | Rollout to Rapid-Release-Bereiche ist abgeschlossen; Start zu Geplante Freigabedomänen planned for December 2, 2024. | Available to all Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about how to use Google Drive. 

Letztes Jahr, we introduced full screen tasks lists for Google Calendar on web, enabling users to see all their tasks and task lists in a single full screen view. This week, we’re excited to announce that this same functionality is now available on Android devices. This update makes it easier for users to stay on top of and organize their tasks, especially while on-the-go. | Rolling out to Bereiche für schnelle Freigabe und planmäßige Freigabe now. | Available to Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about Google Tasks.

In continuing our effort to ensure Google Chat is your home for collaboration in Workspace, especially for global teams, we’re excited to introduce translate for me in Google Chat. 

As one of the most requested Gemini enhancements in Chat this year, translate for me will automatically detect and translate over 120 languages to a user’s preferred language. Rather than requiring users to navigate outside of Chat to translate a message, this update reduces friction and improves collaboration with colleagues, partners and customers in other parts of the world. 

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
• Endverbraucher: 
• Automatic translation via translate for me will be OFF by default. Turn ON the automatic translation setting at chat.google.com (web) or on your Android or iOS device by going to Settings > Automatic Translation > select the box for ‘Translate messages to your preferred language.’ 
• This feature translates messages received into your preferred language (based on your Google account settings). Please allow up to 24 hours for this feature to update languages when languages are changed in your Google account settings. 
• These translated messages are viewable only to you. 
• Automatic translation only applies to message content inside the conversation stream and does not show up on message snippets in Home or notifications. 
• Besuchen Sie das Hilfezentrum, um mehr über die Verwendung von Automatic Translation in Chat.

• Rapid-Release-Bereiche: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on December 13, 2024, with expected completion by January 7, 2025 
• Geplante Freigabedomänen: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on January 15, 2025 

Verfügbar für Google Workspace-Kunden mit diesen Add-Ons: 

• Zwillinge Business and Enterprise 
• AI Meetings and Messaging 

• Google Help: Use Automatic Translation in Chat

We know there are scenarios in which you may want to reference a person with an @mention without adding them to a conversation in Google Chat. Starting today, when mentioning a user that is not already in the conversation, you will have the option to add them and send the message, or just send the message without adding them. 

We’re also adding visual improvements by rendering @mentions as smart chips, which brings them more in line with Drive chips in Chat and smart chips across Workspace. With simplified colors, your personal mentions still stand out the most and will be easily spotted in conversations, Home and Mentions.

On web, hovering on the chip will show more information about the person and clicking the chip will start a new 1:1 direct message with them. 

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This feature reduces friction for users by making it easier to provide context when composing messages. 

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
• Endverbraucher: 
• On web, go to chat.google.com or Chat in Gmail and type “@[a person’s name or email address]” to mention them. This functionality is supported across 1:1 direct messages, group direct messages, and spaces. 
• Note that you can only add members to a conversation in group direct messages and spaces. In 1:1 direct messages, when you mention someone they are treated as a reference and not added directly. 
• This functionality will rollout on Android and iOS devices in Q1 2025. 
• Besuchen Sie das Help Centre, um mehr zu erfahren mentioning someone or adding someone to a message.

• Rapid-Release-Bereiche: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on December 12, 2024 
• Geplante Freigabedomänen: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on January 14, 2025 

• Verfügbar für alle Google Workspace-Kunden, Workspace-Einzelabonnenten und Nutzer mit persönlichen Google-Konten 

• Google Help: Mention someone or add someone to a message