Introducing Gemini Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI™)

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We’re pleased to introduce Gemini LTI™, an AI-powered assistant that can integrate into third party Learning Management Systems (LMS). Gemini LTI™ helps enhance the educational experience for both educators and students by providing AI-driven tools and features powered by Gemini within their LMS environment. To start, Gemini LTI™ integrates with Canvas by Instructure and Powerschool Schoology Learning. 

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Por qué utilizarlo

Google is committed to making AI helpful for everyone, in the classroom and beyond. Bringing Gemini into LMS tools helps educators boost their creativity and productivity to create more dynamic and engaging learning experiences for their students. Specifically, educators can use the AI tools to:
  • Outline a lesson plan, including learning objectives.
  • Generate a quiz and export it to Google Forms.
  • Create a hook to spark curiosity and engage your students.
Students can further solidify what they’re learning in the classroom or explore new topics alongside an AI:
  • In-the-moment assistance: get unstuck and keep learning going by get clarification in real time. 
  • Learning coach: get a step-by-step learning plan built around specific learning goals.
  • Brainstorming partner: generate fresh ideas for a research paper, additional authors to read, and more.
  • Feedback on writing: get suggestions on how to strengthen your arguments and hone your ideas
  • Mock interviews: prepare for an upcoming internship or extra curricular interview.

Más información

Gemini LTI™ is part of Google Workspace LTI, our suite of LTI™ tools, including Assignments LTI™, Google Drive LTI™, and Google Meet LTI™. Visit our Help Center to learn more about Workspace LTI™

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Now generally available: Monitor and manage AppSheet usage in your organization with the AppSheet Admin console

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Beginning today, we’re pleased to announce that all Google Workspace Admins with the Privilegio del servicio AppSheet can access the AppSheet Admin Console. The AppSheet Admin console is a consolidated location to monitor, manage and govern AppSheet across your organization. Previously, the AppSheet Admin Console was only available to those with an AppSheet Enterprise Plus license in public preview, but now any admin with sufficient privileges has access to monitor and manage their users (note: some features require an enterprise license for the admin and the user). 
The AppSheet Admin Console gives admins visibility into the users, apps and licenses associated with their AppSheet users. From here, admins can: 
  • Review the most popular apps and creators. 
  • Review how many apps are owned and used for every user account. 
  • View all of their organization’s app users. 
  • Verify the AppSheet licenses purchased, assigned and used. 
  • Export a list of accounts, users, apps and licenses. 
Since Public Preview, we’ve added more functionality: 
  • Historical app usage: Admins can see app usage history for all accounts in their organization up to three months starting today and soon extending to six months. 
  • Self-serve provisioning: Admins can choose how their enterprise licenses are provisioned – either through license assignment in the Workspace Admin Console or automatically upon login to AppSheet.  
  • Organizations as the new standard: New and existing Workspace customers can manage all of their secondary domain users under a consolidated AppSheet organization.
The AppSheet Admin Console

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Por qué es importante

We’ve heard from our customers that in order to effectively manage AppSheet activity in their organizations, they need visibility into its usage. This includes information regarding how many users are using an AppSheet license, who is accessing their teams apps, and more. Expanding access to the AppSheet Admin console provides admins with these critical metrics, enabling them to understand how the tool is being used and govern the use of the tool as needed.

Más información

The Licenses page will remain in public preview pending some supporting launches and additional enhancements expected early in 2025.

Para empezar

  • Admins: Visite el Centro de ayuda para obtener más información sobre using the AppSheet Admin Console.
  • Usuarios finales: There is no end user impact or action required.

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Available in open beta: Set up Single-Sign On with custom OpenID Connect profiles

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Beginning today, admins now have the option to set up a custom OpenID Connect (OIDC) profile for single sign-on (SSO) with Google as their Service Provider. OIDC is a popular method for verifying and authenticating the identities – this update gives admins more options for their end users to access cloud applications using a single set of credentials. Previously, only OIDC with pre-configured Microsoft Entra ID profile was supported in addition to SAML.
Custom OIDC profiles can be configured in the Admin console at >Security > Authentication > SSO with third party IdP

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Ritmo de implantación

Disponibilidad

  • Available for all Google Workspace customers except Google Workspace Essentials Starter customers and Workspace Individual Subscribers.
  • Also available for Cloud Identity and Cloud Identity Premium customers

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Available in open beta: migrate messages from Microsoft Teams to Google Chat

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Beginning today, we’re expanding our data migration experience to include the ability for Google Workspace admins to migrate conversations  from channels in Microsoft Teams to spaces in Google Chat, making it easier for organizations to onboard and deploy Chat. 

This can be done within the Admin console in a few steps:

  • First, connect to your Microsoft account.
  • Then, upload a CSV of the teams from where you want to migrate the messages. You can specify the source to destination identity mapping by uploading a CSV of the email ID’s from source to target.
  • Next, you’ll enter the starting date for messages to be migrated from Teams. Then you can begin your data migration. 
  • Finally, you’ll complete the migration by making migrated spaces, messages and related conversation data available to Google Workspace users (see our Centro de ayuda article for specific details on supported data types).
Starting a chat migration in the admin console
When a migration starts, the UI displays a visual report that breaks down tasks with individual progress bars for tasks that are successfully completed, skipped, failed or have warnings.
The final step to complete the migration is to roll out spaces, making migrated spaces and their content available to users.

Más información

  • The Chat migration tool doesn’t delete or modify existing Google Chat spaces or messages. 
  • You can also run a delta migration, which will migrate any messages added to Teams channels since the primary migration. Messages that are already successfully migrated are skipped.
  • Once a migration is complete, you can export a report that contains detailed information regarding content that skipped, failed or had warnings during the migration.
  • En nuestro Centro de ayuda encontrará más información sobre migración de otras formas de datos a partir de distintos tipos de cuentas de origen.

Para empezar

Ritmo de implantación

  • Esta función ya está disponible.

Disponibilidad

  • Disponible para todos los clientes de Google Workspace

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Available in open beta: prevent sensitive changes by locking Groups

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Admins can now label a Google Group as “Locked,” which will heavily restrict changes to group attributes (such as group name & email address) and memberships. This will help admins who sync their groups from an external source and want to prevent getting out of sync, or who want to restrict changes to sensitive groups. This feature will be available in open beta, which means no additional sign-up is required. 

The Group Details page in the Admin console shows a “Locked” label on the group, with the message “You can’t update this group – it might be managed by an external identity system.”

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Por qué es importante

If you use third-party tools, like Entra ID, to manage group synchronization, you may encounter inconsistencies when modifications are made to these groups, like adding or removing members, for example. To help address this, we’re introducing the option to “lock” a group, which will prevent modifications within Google Workspace and help maintain synchronization with the external source. 

When a group is locked, only certain admins* can modify:

  • The group name, description, email, and alias(es)
  • Group labels
  • Memberships (adding or removing members) and member restrictions
  • Membership roles
  • Delete the group
  • Set up a new membership expiry

When a group is locked, access and content moderation settings are not affected, this includes:

  • Who can post
  • Who can view members
  • Who can contact members
  • Membership removals due to an existing membership expiry
  • Access or content moderation settings

*Super Admins, Group Admins, and Group Editors with a condition that includes “Locked Groups”

Más información

By default, the changes listed above will be restricted from end users, including group owners and managers of a locked group. If you want to also restrict some admins from making these changes in the Admin Console or APIs, you can assign them the Group Editor role with a condition that excludes locked groups. 
The ability to lock or unlock a group using the “Locked” label is available to Super Admins, Group Admins, or a custom role with the “Manage Locked Label” privilege. Lock a group using the “Locked” group label in the Admin Console, or the API de grupos de identidad en la nube.

Para empezar

Ritmo de implantación

Disponibilidad

Disponible para Google Workspace:
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Essentials Plus
  • Educación Estándar y Plus
  • Also available to Cloud Identity Premium customers

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