Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals
A for teaching and learning
Education Fundamentals is a suite of secure and easy-to-use tools — provided at no cost — that help improve collaboration, productivity, and class management.
Foster collaboration across your education community
Make it easy for everyone in your education community to collaborate, communicate, and participate in real time.
Write, edit, and collaborate in real time, add new collaborators, and see changes as they happen in Docs, Sheets, and Slides.
Teach and learn from anywhere using reliable and secure video conferencing with up to 100 participants and easily communicate with students via built-in chat.
Personalize settings for every student, provide live captions, and use Screen Reader, braille readers, and screen magnification.
Google Docs
Google Meet
Google Docs
Promote productivity with time-saving tools
Save time with easy-to-use tools that automate and simplify tasks.
Create and organize classwork, grade tests, and build permission slips, polls and more with Classroom, Assignments, and Forms.
Use built-in rubrics and comment alongside student work to provide feedback that students can easily find and action on.
Automatically save progress in documents, organize files, and alert guardians on activities, deadlines, or missing work.
Google Classroom
Google Assignments
Google Slides
Strengthen digital safety with privacy and security tools
Use one of the world’s most secure cloud-based communication and productivity suites.
Help keep your institution safe with data practices that support compliance with FERPA, COPPA, GDPR, and more. You retain full intellectual property rights over your data, and Core Services, like Gmail, Calendar, and Classroom, have no ads.
Send secure emails with Gmail, which uses AI-powered protections to block more than 99.9% of spam, phishing and malware from ever reaching you. Safeguard sensitive data in Gmail and Drive with automated data loss prevention (DLP).
Rely on 100 TB of pooled cloud storage, protected in Drive, and retain user data for compliance and discovery in Vault.
Google Drive
Gmail
Google Drive
Which edition is right for your institution?
Google Workspace for Education solutions offer choice and flexibility. Find the right fit for your education community.
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Gmail
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Calendar
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Meet
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Classroom
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Docs
Sheets
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Slides
Forms
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Assignments
Admin
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Drive
Groups
Sites
Tasks
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Education Fundamentals
No cost
for qualifying institutions
A suite of tools that enables collaborative learning opportunities on a secure platform.1
Includes teaching and learning essentials, like:
Collaboration with Classroom, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Gmail, Drive, Meet, Sites, Chat, and Calendar
Security and administrative tools in the Google Admin console
100 TB of pooled cloud storage shared by your organization
Education Standard
S$4.38
per student, per year
Get one staff license at no charge for every four student licenses.
Advanced security and analytics to help you proactively protect your community from digital threats.
Includes features from Education Fundamentals, plus:
A unified security dashboard to take a more proactive security posture
Centralized control and visibility to prevent, detect, and remediate security threats
No-code, custom apps with AppSheet Core
Deeper analytics and powerful data visualizations
Teaching and Learning Upgrade
S$6
per staff license, per month
or S$60 per license when billed annually
Choose how many of your staff need licenses.
Enhanced teaching and learning tools to help educators enhance instructional impact.
Includes features from Education Fundamentals, plus:
Classroom features to deliver more enriched and personalized learning
Tools to save educators time by simplifying class and school management
Premium engagement features in Meet including interactive Q&As, polls, breakout rooms, and more
Additional Drive storage for each staff license
Recommended
Education
PlusS$6.88
per student, per year
Get one staff license at no charge for every four student licenses.
An all-in-one solution with advanced security and analytics, teaching and learning features, and more.
Includes features from all other editions, and more:
Advanced security and analytics to help you proactively protect your community from digital threats
Additional enhanced teaching and learning tools to help educators enhance instructional impact
Personalized Cloud Search for your domain to make information accessible and easy to find
Additional Drive storage for each staff and student license
1 Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals is available at no cost for qualifying institutions. Learn more.
Gemini for Google Workspace
Gemini is an AI assistant across Google Workspace for Education that helps you save time, create captivating learning experiences, and inspire fresh ideas — all in a private and secure environment. Gemini Education can be purchased as an add-on to any Google Workspace for Education edition.
Prepare your students for college, career, and life
Build a thriving educational community that provides students and faculty with the skills and technology they need today—and tomorrow.
75%
of university students prefer Google Workspace as their productivity suite of choice.
Source: Sada Systems, Inc. 23 August 2022
96%
of Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups use Google Workspace.
Resources to help you get started with Education Fundamentals
Learn more about getting started with Google Workspace for Education.
Educator training
This step-by-step training teaches practical strategies for how to use Google tools for in-person learning and classroom management.
Accessibility
Learn about accessibility features designed to help support students who have diverse needs and learning styles.
Product guides
Access detailed product guides to gain expertise on how to use Google Workspace for Education.
The Total Economic Impact report
Check out this study to see the benefits, cost savings, and ROI enabled by Education Plus.
Sustainability
Learn how Google for Education is taking steps to help you meet your sustainability goals.
Privacy and security
Google for Education helps create a safer digital learning environment for every school, every classroom, and every student.
“Every time I walk into a classroom, students say, ‘we’re going to do something fun today.' The technology allows us so much freedom in our classrooms – it’s unlike anything I’ve seen before.”
Teresa Engler
Technology Coach“Compared to other video conferencing tools, Meet is easier to use, easier to manage, and more secure. It also has features that helped us get buy-in more easily.”
Charley Butcher
Director of Instructional Technology“We love the efficiency of having all of these functions – meetings and classes, recording, and streaming – performed by the one tool.”
Karl Bernard
IT Business Partner“We realized that the sandboxing feature took away that day-to-day anxiety about security. It’s always working for us in the background – a real set-it-and-forget-it tool.”
Philip Vinogradov
Chief Technology Officer
Start today with Google Workspace for Education
Connect and collaborate across your whole education community. Choose the edition that best suits you and your institution.
Find answers to commonly asked questions
What is the price of this edition?
Education Fundamentals is available without cost for qualified educational institutions. To determine if you qualify, please visit this page.
What’s included in Education Fundamentals?
Please visit our comparison chart to review the full feature set included in Education Fundamentals.
How is Education Fundamentals different from G Suite for Education?
Education Fundamentals is the new name for G Suite for Education. If your school is using G Suite for Education today, you don’t have to take any action to transition to Education Fundamentals. Your school's experience with our tools, as well as our qualifications for new customers to gain access to them, will remain the same.
How much storage does Education Fundamentals offer?
Institutions with Education Fundamentals have a shared pool of 100TB of storage, which they can manage and allocate as they see fit. Please reach out to your admin to explore options for additional storage. Please visit our Help Center for more details.
Where can I learn more?
Visit our Help Center for more details on Education Fundamentals.