Google announced several new features and updates for students and educators. For starters, it has added the ability to include Google Photos in Google Takeout Transfer when people graduate or leave an organization.
It was among the top-requested features for transferring photos, videos, and albums from school or university-led Google accounts to personal accounts. For admins, Google said it will bring new tools to manage Photos and bulk-delete in the admin console, allowing them to see which users have migrated their data and delete the content to free up pooled Drive storage.
Google has doubled the NotebookLM limits for students and educators with Education Plus or the Teaching and Learning add-on. They can have more notebooks, sources per notebook, infographics, and more.
With the academic year in full swing, Google said that students can now prepare for the NEET medical entrance exam by prompts like "I want to take a NEET mock exam." Gemini has already allowed users to prepare for the SAT and JEE Mains since earlier this year and will add support for more standardized tests in the future.
Google has become an official AI provider for the Moodle Learning Management System (LMS). Admins can power Moodle"s AI capabilities, such as image generation and text summarization, through Gemini.
Google will bring the Gemini app and NotebookLM directly to Moodle LMS by adding support for Gemini LTI. This will allow teachers to assign a Gem or a notebook directly to their students in Moodle for assignments or class projects. Speaking of the Gemini app, Google recently pushed updates to add Notebooks and the ability to generate interactive models and simulations.
Apart from these, Google announced that it will offer free AI training to six million K-12 and higher-ed educators in the U.S. Its Google AI Educator series is in partnership with ISTE+ASCD, and the content will be available starting May 13.
The search giant has also joined hands with Purdue University, the University of Alabama, and UC Riverside to offer researchers discounted AI-optimized hardware, early access to its frontier models, and direct collaboration with its experts.