If you are part of an educational institution, you should know that Google offers free licenses to establishments that have a .edu domain and meet these requirements.

So why sign up for the paid versions of Google Workspace for Education? 

The answer is simple. It increases security and control by the IT sector. It also incorporates more education-oriented functionalities.

In addition, due to the current context and the growing demand, Google launched a new family of versions, where each one emphasizes different institutional objectives. So they are adapted to each institution.

Main benefits

• A safer and more controlled learning environment
• Improved educational experiences and features for teaching classes
• Greater control of teachers
• Institution statistics

What are they and what features does each version include?

All versions have the features of Google Workspace Education Fundamentals (Free edition)

Google Workspace for Education Standard

This version is oriented to institutions that want to incorporate more security and advanced statistical tools to their educational and collaborative system.

• Central security dashboard: to prevent, detect and and solve threats as they arise. Security recommendations.
  
• Centralized management of devices and applications to run audits and enforce rules.
  
• Ability to export Gmail logs to BigQuery for analysis and statistics. and obtain statistics.
  
• Drive logs investigation tool: the logs within the tool can help find, track, change permissions and isolate or delete unwanted files within the domain. 

Teaching and Learning:

This version is oriented to improve the classes and teachers' work. Improved functions in Google Meet, Classroom and Tasks:

• Videoconferencing with up to 250 participants at a time or live streaming for up to 10,000 users.
• Increased interaction with students on Google Meet: enhanced features such as interactive Q&A sessions, polls, attendance tracking, and separate sessions for small groups. and separate sessions for small groups.
• Ability to record, archive and save recorded Google Meet meetings to Drive.
• Greater control by ending meetings for everyone when the organizer leaves.
• Possibility of integrating third-party tools directly into Classroom.
• Unlimited originality reports and a private repository of student papers for peer-to-peer matching.

Education Plus

This is the comprehensive version. It includes all the features of Education Standard and Teaching and Learning Upgrade and adds additional functionalities.:

• Live streaming for up to 100,000 domain users with Google Meet. of the domain with Google Meet.
• Proprietary Cloud Search to make information more accessible and discoverable.
• Create and manage large-scale classes by synchronizing Classroom synchronizing Classroom lists from your student information system. student information system (coming soon).
• Streamlining approvals directly into Drive, Gmail, Documents, and other Google Workspace editors through an integrated process for reviewers to integrated process for reviewers to approve, reject or leave comments. can approve, reject or leave comments.

At Etixen we offer licenses in pesos, without country tax and include our remote technical support for each institution.