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What’s changing
Continuous framing is a feature for Google Meet hardware devices that ensures participants are automatically framed no matter where they are in the room. We're making two updates to the feature:
  • Available on more devices: We're adding support for continuous framing on Meet-certified cameras that ship with our ASUS & Logitech room kits, specifically the Logitech PTZ Pro 2, Logitech MeetUp, and the Logitech Rally. This feature was previously only available on the Series One Room Kit Smart Camera and Smart Camera XL.
  • Available for eligible devices by default: The toggle in camera settings for continuous framing will now be available for eligible devices. Previously, it had to be enabled in the Admin console. Now, unless you've explicitly turned it off in the Admin console, it will be available as an option in the meeting room, but will be toggled off by default. See more details below.

Who’s impacted
Admins and end users

Why you’d use it
Continuous framing allows in-room participants to be better represented in a hybrid meeting as it captures the speakers in the frame regardless of where they're sitting in the room. Seeing all the participants in the room up close makes it easier to:
  • Read facial expressions and body language
  • Maintain eye contact with meeting participants
  • Smoothly take turns in the conversation

Additional details
Unless you’ve already explicitly turned off the feature in the Admin console, continuous framing will be ON by default on eligible Google Meet hardware in your organization.

If you would like to turn off this feature so it is not available on an individual device, the continuous framing setting is found on the device details page. This toggle can also be modified via a bulk action on the device list page.

Getting started
  • Admins: Unless you’ve already explicitly turned off the feature, continuous framing will be ON by default on eligible Google Meet hardware in your organization. Visit the Help Center to learn more about continuous framing.
  • End users: Unless disabled by your admin, this toggle will be available on the device for all eligible meeting room cameras but will be set to OFF at the beginning of each call by default. You can turn it on in the device settings.

Rollout pace

Availability
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers using eligible “Meet hardware” licensed devices.

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What’s changing 
You can now perform a “domain-takeover” to take control of all the existing Google Workspace Essentials instances on your domain. This new process can help admins consolidate multiple instances of Google Workspace Essentials. By consolidating accounts: 
  • Admins get additional management controls and centralized billing 
  • Admins get controls over end user access to additional services 
  • No need to loop in support or delete existing Google Workspace Essentials instances as part of Domain takeover. Now, users can access their Google Workspace apps and services without interruption during or after takeover. 

Who’s impacted 
Admins and end users 


Why you’d use it 
Google Workspace Essentials enables teams to use select Google Workspace apps alongside the apps and tools provided by their domain administrators. In some cases, an admin may want to assume management of these accounts previously managed on the team level. This new functionality enables a seamless management transition while maintaining uninterrupted access to tools for users. 


Getting started 
  • Admins: To take over accounts, you must first have verified your domain. Visit the Help Center to learn more about how to set up Essentials for your domain and verify your domain to unlock features. 
  • End users: Users will have uninterrupted access during the takeover process, but existing billing setup will be cancelled and consolidated at the domain level. Additionally, organizational policies configured at individual Google Workspace Essentials instance will be overridden by the parent organization’s policies 
admin console screen to take control of Workspace Essentials instances within your domain
The Admin console screen where you take control of Google Workspace Essentials instances in your domain


Rollout pace 
Availability 
  • Applicable to Google Workspace Essentials and Enterprise Essentials customers only 
  • Not applicable to Google Workspace Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Plus, Frontline, and Nonprofits, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers. 
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Quick launch summary 

Last year, we announced the ability to virtually raise your hand in Google Meet to enhance interaction without disrupting the flow of the conversation. We are now bringing this feature to all Google Meet hardware to help bring a more unified experience to hybrid working. 

To raise your hand on a touch controller, simply tap “Raise Hand” at the top. Once a hand is raised, the moderator and all other participants will see a list of participants in the order in which they raised their hands. 

The touch controller will also show you all other participants who raised their hand, as well as an easy way to switch back to the full participant list. 



Hand Raise on a Room Kit using a touch controller

Hand Raise on a Room Kit using a touch controller


Placed within the call controls, hand raise is easily accessible to room kits using a remote control. Simply open the participant list and click the hand raise button. If other participants raise a hand, participants and moderators in the room will see a notification as well as a badge on their video tile.



A host using Hand Raise on a Room Kit with remote control


A host using Hand Raise on a Room Kit with remote control

Getting started 

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: This feature will be ON by default. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using hand raising in meet 

Rollout pace 

Availability 

  • Available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Education Plus, Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Nonprofits, as well as G Suite Business customers. 
  • Not available to Legacy Free, Business Starter, and Frontline. 

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What’s changing 
We’re adding group level controls that will allow admins to restrict group memberships based on: 
  • Internal or external members,
  • Member type (service account, user, group) 
  • This feature is available as an open beta, which means you can use it without enrolling in a specific beta program. 

Who’s impacted 
Admins and end users who are group owners and managers 


Why it’s important 
This feature helps ensure Groups are properly configured and stay within the confines of specific restrictions. For example, if an Admin configures a group to exclude service accounts, that restriction will be preserved and enforced for all future group changes. 

Once a restriction is in place, we’ll indicate whether there are violating memberships and suggested actions to resolve the discrepancy. Further, this feature will prevent any new changes from violating the current setting, ensuring the group remains secure. 


Additional details 
Important note: Group owners and managers cannot remove restrictions once they’re applied, but may be able to add additional restrictions. For example, If a group is configured to contain individual users and groups, the group owner could further restrict it to only users. However, the group owner could not change a group which is set up to only contain individuals to allow both individuals and groups. Use our Help Center to learn more.


Getting started 
Rollout pace 
Availability 
  • Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Standard, Education Plus, and Cloud Identity Premium customers 
  • Not available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Education Fundamentals, Frontline, and Nonprofits, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers 
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What’s changing
You can now quickly start and share a meeting notes document for your Calendar events.

GIF of adding Meeting notes in the Calendar details view
Meeting notes in the Calendar details view



Creating a notes document from Calendar will automatically populate the document with the event information and attach the document to the event.

You can also add this same meeting notes template into any doc by typing “@” in the doc and using the drop-down menu.

Add a meeting notes into a Doc using the @ menu
Add a meeting notes template into a Doc




These features are currently only available in Calendar and Docs on the web.

Who’s impacted
End users

Why you’d use it
Meeting notes are one of the most common use cases in Docs, and an effective way to make meetings a good use of time. However, creating, sharing and finding them later involves several basic repetitive steps, and involves switching between Docs and Calendar. The meeting notes feature is a shortcut to create such documents with some quick clicks.

This feature streamlines the creation, sharing and attachment of meeting notes into Calendar events.
Additional details
In Calendar, this feature is only available to meeting organizers or guests with permissions to modify the event.

You can use this feature several ways:
  • While creating or editing an event, you’ll see a “Create meeting notes” button next to the attachment section. You can click this button to create a new document, which attaches it to the event upon saving the changes.
  • Clicking the “Take meeting notes” button in a scheduled event will create this document, and immediately open it in a new tab so users can get started capturing notes right away. In the background, this document will also be attached to the calendar event for future reference.

Once you make these meeting notes, we’ll automatically link back to the Calendar event from the doc, making it easy to navigate between places.

You’ll still be able to attach additional documents to the Calendar event.

Sharing the meeting notes 
  • If you click to “Create meeting notes” when creating a new event or editing an existing event, the notes doc will be shared with the attendees, including those outside your organization, once you hit “Save.”
  • If you click “Take meeting notes” on a scheduled Calendar event, attendees will not automatically have access and we’ll show you a prompt to share in Docs.
  • When capturing meeting notes for scheduled events from Google Docs:
    • If you’re the meeting organizer: A pop-up prompts you to share and attach the document to your event. To give access, click Share & attach.
    • If you’re not the meeting organizer: A pop-up prompts you to share the document. To give access, click Share. The document doesn't attach to the event.
Getting started
  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more about meeting notes in Calendar.
Rollout pace
Availability
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers
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Quick launch summary 

You can now find and view additional information about people within your organization, your Contacts, and more across additional Google Workspace products. This information includes: 

  • Contact information, such as phone number and email address,  
  • Team and manager, 
  • Office and desk location, 
  • Whether you’ve received email from them before, and more. 

This feature is already available for Gmail, and will now be available from the following products: Google Chat, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, and Slides.

Getting started 

  • Admins: To maximize this feature, it’s helpful to have user data fully populated across Google Workspace apps. Workspace admins can populate this data in a few locations: 
  • End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. Click “Open Detailed View” while hovering over a user’s information card, or select the Contacts icon in the side panel. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Google products side by side. 

Rollout pace 

Availability 

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers 

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What’s changing 
We’re adding an Admin console setting which will enable admins to control whether students can unenroll from classes. If turned on, it will prevent students from unenrolling themselves from classes. A teacher or admin would have to unenroll them from the class instead. 


Who’s impacted 
Admins and end users 


Why you’d use it 
Students erroneously unenrolling from classes can cause disruption for teachers and an increased support volume for admins. By using this setting, you can help ensure your class rosters are accurate and up to date. Additionally, if you’re using roster import, this makes it easy to maintain your SIS as the source of truth for the roster. 


Getting started 
  • Admins: This feature will be OFF by default, and can be enabled at the domain or OU level. Find the setting at Admin console > Apps > Google Workspace > Settings for Classroom > Student unenrollment. Visit the Help Center to learn more about controlling student unenrollment settings. 
  • End users: If turned on by their admin, students will no longer see the unenroll button on the course cards on the Classroom homepage.


Rollout pace 

Availability 
  • Available as a core service to Google Workspace Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Education Plus. 
  • Available as an additional service to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Frontline, and Nonprofits, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers. 
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What’s changing 
We’ve added several new features to Google Meet in Classroom, making it easier and more secure: 
  • The Class Meet link is now accessible on the side of the class stream, so students can easily join and teachers can manage the link from the stream. 
  • Students will be directed to a waiting room until a teacher has officially joined the class Meet link. 
  • Guests not on the class roster will have to “ask to join” and be admitted by the teacher before they can participate, so no unintended participants join the meetings. 
  • All designated co-teachers for a class will automatically be co-hosts in the meeting. This moderation tool will enable co-hosts to start the meeting with the same Meet link without the class teacher needing to be present. 

Who’s impacted 
Teachers and student end users 


Why it matters These features make it easier for teachers to manage meetings, help prevent unintended meeting participants from joining meetings, and generally help meetings run more smoothly. Overall, teachers and students will have a smoother and more secure experience while using Google Classroom and Google Meet. 


Additional details 
Please note that after a Meet link is generated, if a co-teacher is added or removed, you must regenerate the Meet link to update the host status. We are working on changing this functionality so the host status auto-updates, and hope to implement the change by the end of the year. 

You can follow this Forum post to stay updated on the progress of the rollout, get additional tips, FAQs and other useful updates on this launch. 

Getting started 
  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature, but Google Meet must be turned on for these features to be available in Google Classroom. Learn more about how to set up and manage Meet and use Meet for distance learning.
  • End users: These features will be ON by default for new meetings created in Google Classroom. Users with existing class Meet links should reset the link to get this updated functionality. Visit the Help Center to learn more about starting a video meeting for education. 
Rollout pace 
Availability 
  • Available as a core service to Google Workspace Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Education Plus. 
  • Available as an additional service to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Frontline, and Nonprofits, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers 
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New updates 
Unless otherwise indicated, the features below are fully launched or in the process of rolling out (rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete), launching to both Rapid and Scheduled Release at the same time (if not, each stage of rollout should take no more than 15 business days to complete), and available to all Google Workspace and G Suite customers. 



New look and feel for Workspace Updates email subscriptions 
We’ve improved the look and feel of the emails you receive when you subscribe to Workspace Updates. 
  • The emails themselves will be sent from noreply@workspaceupdates.withgoogle.com, so be sure to update any inbox filters or labels you may have and check your spam folders if you don't immediately see them. 
  • Emails for the Workspace Updates Blog in non-English markets will update to this new format in the coming weeks. 
  • If you have any feedback about these emails after September 29th, please feel back to let us know in the linked form. 
Available now | Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google Accounts. | Workspace Updates Blog Email Subscription Feedback 



Porting in Google Voice now available in Canada 
If your organization has existing phone numbers with another service provider, you can port (or move) those numbers to Google Voice in Canada. | Learn more.



Previous announcements 
The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog earlier this week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details. 



Live translated captions in Google Meet available in beta 
Launching in beta, live translated captions help video call participants communicate better by translating a spoken language to captions in another language. | Learn more here and here. | Available to meetings organized by Google Workspace Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and Teaching & Learning Upgrade customers. | Apply to beta 



Add image watermarks in Google Docs 
You can now add image watermarks directly into Google Docs. This watermark image will repeat behind the text on every page of your document. | Learn more. 



Renaming “whitelisted domains” to “allowlisted domains” in the Admin console 
We’re updating instances of “whitelisted” in the Admin console to “allowlisted”. This change more accurately describes this action, as well as eliminates a non-inclusive term from our products. | Learn more.



Comment size increasing in Google Docs 
Comment width will intelligently scale based on your browser window to maximize the use of available screen space. | Learn more.



Replace your background with a video in Google Meet on Android 
In addition to replacing your Google Meet background with a static image on web and mobile, you can now replace your background with a video on Android. | Learn more. 



Quickly access Google Drive files in Chrome browser 
We’re adding a card onto the New Tab Page in your Chrome browser that will surface relevant files from your Google Drive, making it easier and more efficient to find the files you need. | Learn more.



View Alert Center notifications directly from the Admin console toolbar 
You can now quickly access Alert Center alerts from anywhere in the Admin console from the toolbar at top of the page. Selecting the new bell icon will surface the ten latest alerts, along with a brief description. | Learn more.



Use the “Slideshow” button in Google Slides 
We’re replacing what was previously the “Present” button in Slides to now say “Slideshow.” We hope this makes it clearer when you are beginning a slide show, and when you are sharing your screen in Meet. | Learn more. 



Review smart home devices used for work in your Admin console
Admins can now view and manage the smart displays and speakers that access work data in the Admin console, alongside other devices managed with Google endpoint management. | Learn more. 



For a recap of announcements in the past six months, check out What’s new in Google Workspace (recent releases).
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What’s changing
Admins can now view and manage the smart displays and speakers that access work data in the Admin console, alongside other devices managed with Google endpoint management. 



Who’s impacted 
Admins 


Why it’s important 
In addition to computers and mobile devices, the inclusion of smart displays and speakers in Google endpoint management gives admins a more complete inventory of the devices their users are using to access Google Workspace. Further, this allows admins to easily take action if needed, such as signing out of devices as needed and viewing information such as device type and user account information. 


Additional details 
For select Google Workspace editions, admins can view activity on smart home devices as part of device audit logs. You’ll be able to see information such as: 
  • Whether there has been an account registration change, 
  • If a user’s managed account synced on the device, 
  • If the device has been signed out by an admin. 

You can also set an alert to be notified when these activities occur. Visit the Help Center to learn more about device audit logs. 


Getting started 

Rollout pace 

Availability 
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers 

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