Google Workspace Changes

Educators can now add Guided Learning to Google Classroom assignments, providing students with step-by-step AI guidance and extra support while giving teachers visibility into student progress.

A new Google Classroom integration lets teachers add Guided Learning—a Gemini app mode designed to deepen understanding with step-by-step guidance rather than giving answers—to any assignment, rolling out globally in all Gemini-supported languages. Educators can embed structured, curriculum-informed AI-guided sessions into lesson plans by selecting specific Classroom sources as context, grounded in Google's LearnLM research. The feature provides actionable AI-generated insight summaries at both class and individual student levels, access to individual student chat transcripts, a focused student view that hides the Gemini side navigation and disables new chats, and seamless integration with Class Tools on Chromebooks for a secure, locked-down environment. It is available for Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus editions.