Meet Gemini for Education

Gemini is Google’s powerful AI assistant—and now it’s built just for schools. Gemini for Education includes:

• Gemini 2.5 Pro, the premium version of Google's AI model, free for all Google Workspace for Education users
• Built-in privacy protections, certified by Common Sense Media
• Admin-managed access for safe and age-appropriate use by students
• Integration across Google tools like Docs, Slides, Forms, and, yep—Google Classroom!

💡 Explore Gemini for Education

LearnLM: AI built for educators 

Unlike general-purpose chatbots, Gemini for Education is powered by LearnLM, a Google large language model designed specifically for education. It’s built with educational pedagogy to:

• Encourage curiosity and deeper thinking
• Provide step-by-step, age-appropriate explanations
• Support productive struggle (without giving away the answer!)
• Promote better questioning from students

💡 Read more about LearnLM

AI features built directly into Google Classroom

Google Classroom now includes AI tools right where you work—no need to switch tabs or open new apps.

Here are just a few things you can do with Gemini in Google Classroom:

• Outline a lesson plan – Generate learning objectives and full lesson plans to spark inspiration or enhance engagement.
• Craft a compelling hook – Get ideas for creative lesson openers or activities tailored to your students' interests.
• Generate a quiz – Quickly create questions to assess student understanding or build formative assessments.
• Create a rubric – Build clear evaluation criteria and expectations for any assignment or project.
• Translate text – Instantly translate content into 100+ languages to support multilingual learners.
• Build a choice board – Design differentiated choice-based activities for students to show mastery in various ways.

💡 Learn more about Gemini in Google Classroom

Custom Gems: Create your own AI chatbot for students

Gems are like little versions of Gemini tailored to specific tasks or learning goals. It's a personalized chatbot made just for students.

With Custom Gems in Classroom, you can:

• Use templates or build your own custom Gemini chatbots
• Ground responses in materials YOU upload
• Assign a Gem to your students directly in Google Classroom
• Empower students to explore, review, or extend their learning in safe, guided ways

You stay in control — and your students get the immediate support they need.

💡Tips for creating custom Gems

NotebookLM: Turn class materials into study tools

NotebookLM is like a personal tutor that only knows what you teach. You upload the resources—NotebookLM does the rest.

With NotebookLM inside Google Classroom, you can now:

• Assign interactive study guides based on class content
• Automatically generate summaries, audio overviews, mind maps, and Q&A
• Keep everything grounded in your own materials (not the open web)
• Encourage reflection and personalized review — all under teacher guidance

This gives students the power to explore and digest information at their own pace and in ways they learn best.

💡Google NotebookLM for teachers: 10 things to know for educators

Gemini for Students: AI for learning, not just answers

Students (even under 18) can now safely use Gemini to:

• Ask questions in their natural language
• Get help brainstorming, outlining, or explaining concepts
• Create quizzes to test themselves
• Practice responsible, ethical AI use

All with admin controls, conversation history settings, and privacy protections built-in.

💡Gemini for Education Overview

Google Vids + Veo 3: AI video creation made easy

Got 8 seconds? That’s all you need and sometimes all that students will pay attention to!

Google Vids, powered by Veo 3, lets educators create short, animated videos complete with:

• Speaking characters
• Music and sound effects
• Storyboarding based on your script
• Templates and styles for any subject or grade

Use it for bell ringers, explainer videos, or review content — and students can even create their own.

💡 See Google Vids with Veo

Read Along in Classroom: AI-Powered literacy support

Read Along in Classroom is getting a major upgrade with AI:

• Create your own stories and turn them into interactive reading activities
• Upload your own texts for personalized practice
• Use phonics dashboards, silent reading mode, or listening mode to meet individual needs
• Support multilingual learners with language support in English, Spanish, Arabic, Urdu, and more

Perfect for elementary teachers and reading specialists!

💡Read Along in Google Classroom

Smarter insights + data in Google Classroom

Google Classroom is getting a major boost in analytics. These updates help teachers connect daily classroom work to bigger learning goals — and act on insights in real time.

Here’s what’s new:

• Tag assignments with learning standards – Use U.S. K–12 state and national standards (e.g., NGSS, ISTE, ACT) via the CASE® Network.
• View insights in the new Analytics tab – Access trends in grades, assignment completion, and student activity.
• Track Drive engagement – See if students have opened attached files and send private comments as needed.
• International standards support coming soon – Global rollout planned for tagging frameworks beyond the U.S.
• Publish your own standards – Schools and organizations can host and integrate custom standards into Classroom.