Starting today, we’re bringing GIFs and stickers directly into Google Slides. GIFs and stickers empower you to build visual, dynamic, and creative presentations that help you connect with your audience in Slides. 

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. End users: To add GIFs to your slides, create a new presentation or open an existing presentation > go to Insert > Image > GIFs and stickers > search for GIFs and/or stickers > click on one or several to insert into slides. Visit the Help Center to learn more about inserting or deleting images & videos. 

Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 6, 2023Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 28, 2023

Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google Accounts 

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We’re introducing analytics in Google Classroom, providing a centralized view of Classroom data and insights for educators and education leaders. 

Designated education leaders and support staff now have direct visibility into student performance and engagement in the classroom, including if assignments are being completed, how grades are trending, and how Classroom features are being adopted. Education leaders will see a bird’s eye view of insights, with the ability to easily drill down further to identify which students, classes, and schools may need support. 

Educators will also be able to see the same type of data for the classes they teach, providing them with a centralized snapshot of how each student in their class is trending. For example, if an educator sees that a student has low assignment completion this month, they can drill down to the list of missing assignments and follow up to see how to best support this student. 

Admins and end users 

This feature provides relevant insights that are immediately actionable, so education leaders and educators can make informed decisions around how to best support student success. 

Admins: Super Admins automatically have access to Classroom analytics and must enable Classroom analytics for designated education leaders to access data on the entire organization or limited to specific organizational units. Educators will automatically be able to see class-level analytics for their classes. End users: 
Education leaders and support staff:
If enabled by your admin, you can access Classroom analytics directly from the Classroom homepage. Visit the Help Center to learn more about analytics dashboards for education leaders and support staff. Teachers:
You can automatically access class analytics from the class page header or on a class card in the Classroom homepage. Visit the Help Center to learn more about class analytics for educators.

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 7, 2023 

A Google Workspace for Education Plus license is required to access this feature for both education leaders and educators. Learn more about assigning licenses in the Help Center. Resources 

Launching through our Google Workspace Developer Preview Program, developers can now use the Google Meet API. Using this API, developers can:

Programmatically create and configure Meet calls. Retrieve information about past meetings, such as the meeting times and attendees. Access meeting artifacts, such as transcripts and video recordings. Subscribe to real time updates on meetings, such as when a participant joins or leaves. 

The API will give partners and customers the ability to create and configure Meet video conferences, allow their end users to join a conference, and post real-time updates from within their own applications.

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We recently introduced numerous enhancements across Google Chat, and today we’re excited to announce the general availability of three features highlighting a new integrated experience. 

The redesigned navigation panel brings direct messages and spaces together and introduces shortcuts, a new framework to help you stay on top of your messages. 

To reduce friction while navigating between messages, home helps you quickly catch up on any new activity across all conversations in a single location. Additionally, you can narrow down your view by filtering for unread messages. 

Mentions give you visibility into the messages addressed specifically to you. Within this single destination for important, actionable messages, you can see and navigate to the messages that @-mention you. 

In addition to these improvements to the user experience, we’re updating the icon for Google Chat over the coming weeks. The new icon has a cohesive look with other popular Workspace products and reflects the central role of business messaging and collaboration in Workspace. 

End users 

These features are designed to help you stay on top of the busy flow of communication and make it easier to prioritize and find the conversations that are most important to you. 

The direct message and spaces sections will be listed separately, but are scrollable and collapsable in one unified list. 

The list of messages where you have been @-mentioned are sorted by recency. 

Each row represents the message within the thread that mentions you. If you are mentioned multiple times in a conversation, each mention will show up as one row. Unread messages are highlighted in light blue and include a blue dot. Clicking on a message in the Home or Mentions view will bring you directly to the conversation or thread where you can respond. 

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. End users: These features will be ON by default. Visit the Help Center to learn how to use Google Chat, how to get started with Google Chat and how to mention someone else in a message.

Rollout pace 

Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 9, 2023 Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on December 4, 2023 

Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google Accounts 

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We’re adding a new filter to Google Drive that lets you see which files or folders have been shared with specific people or groups. 

Whether you’re trying to share a file with more audiences or reduce oversharing, this feature will give you greater visibility into who has access to files within and outside of your organization. 

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. The groups that appear in the People filter are based on the target audiences set up at the domain level by admins.  End users: To find files shared with a person or group in drive.google.com: Navigate to My Drive, Shared drives, Shared with me, or RecentClick on “People” filterSearch for a person or group who the files are shared with in the filterSelect “Shared with”View the filtered list of filesTo find files shared outside of your organization: Navigate to My Drive, Shared drives, Shared with me, or RecentClick on “People” filterSelect “External users”View the filtered list of filesTo find files you own that are shared with a specific person or group: Navigate to My Drive, Shared drives, Shared with me, or RecentClick on “People” filterSearch for yourself and select “Owner”Click on “People” filterSearch for a person or group who the files are shared with in the filterView the filtered list of files

Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 9, 2023 Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on December 5, 2023 

Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google Accounts