Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals

Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals is Google's free collaboration suite for qualified schools. It includes Gmail with the school domain, Drive (shared storage), Classroom (native LMS), Meet (video conferencing), Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites and Jamboard. It is the foundation many schools have built their digital infrastructure on.

Unlike consumer suites (personal Gmail, personal Drive), Workspace for Education Fundamentals manages users with institutional accounts (e.g. mario.rossi@school.edu.it), enables centralised management by digital animators/DPOs, ensures GDPR compliance with data hosted in the EU and includes dedicated teaching tools (Classroom with assignments, grading and registry).

Classroom is the heart of the teaching workflow: the teacher creates classes, assigns tasks, receives submissions, grades and provides feedback. Students see all assignments in a single interface. Integration with Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides enables collaborative work without juggling separate files.

Unlimited Meet (no duration or attendee limit) is particularly strategic for hybrid teaching and for school, GLO and grading meetings. Recording (not available on Fundamentals, present on Standard/Plus) is a typical upgrade.

In primary, Workspace Fundamentals supports school-family communication, digital assignments and first collaborative writing projects. In middle and upper secondary it becomes the central platform with Classroom as the hub of all interactions.

Kyron, as a Google Cloud Education Partner, provides domain setup, migration from other suites, Google Certified Educator training and ongoing support.