Google made some big education announcements last week, including a bunch of education features across their apps.
Control Alt Achieve has a great overview of them. Click below to read more.
Control Alt Achieve: 40 Google for Education Updates for Summer 2021:
Summer is a nice time to take a break and relax, but Google has instead been busy working on new updates and features for schools.
On June 22nd Google hosted their "Anywhere School 2021" event (http://goo.gle/tas21) where they covered loads of announcements concerning 40 updates for Google Classroom, Google Meet, Chrome and Chromebooks, and Google Workspace tools in general.
In case you missed it, or are just trying to review through everything that was shared, see below for a list of all 40 updates that were shared at the event.
On the one hand, many of these features looks great (especially the education streaming feature with YouTube/Google Meet). On the other hand, it is easy to see that some of these features are born out of the needs of virtual/hybrid learning and may not be as useful as schools potentially return to in-person instruction this fall.
That said, it looks like there is plenty in store for Google Classroom users, no matter what teaching environment you may find yourself in this fall.