As we all know that Google keeps launching new features for its products and recently Google has released Reading Mode for ChromeOS and desktop Chrome. In addition, Google shared upcoming workspace features for education customers in Docs, Slides and Classroom, and Google Meet is getting AI-powered hand raise detection.
In Google Docs, teachers at the Education Plus level can use custom building blocks to create and save templates for lesson plans and curriculum guides, according to the latest report. This feature will be rolled out soon in the coming months. @voting chips will soon let teachers and students provide immediate feedback, while @stopwatch and @timer are rolling out now.
If you want to see speaker notes on Google Slides and Google Meet, it will now appear when presenting the deck during a video call as well as being able to go ahead and start the video and co-present in the slide Will be Google Meet recordings are getting support for adding closed captions in English, French, German, Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish later this year.
Coming to Google Classroom users on the Teaching and Learning Upgrade and Education Plus tier:
- Teachers can add questions (beta availability) to YouTube videos in Classroom: “As the video plays, students can answer the questions, get real-time feedback on their responses and rewatch the video as needed.”
- Ability to sort grades and assignments by quarters/semesters/terms (available in coming weeks)
- Practice sets (coming weeks in English): “As teachers add questions to their practice setting, they’ll see suggestions for skills to focus on — like solving equations with decimals or writing thesis statements. Based on the skills selected, students will receive helpful hints if they get stuck.”