Gemini for Education

At the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) this year, Google announced several new AI tools "designed to help every learner and educator."

First of all, we have Gemini for Education, which, according to the tech giant, is a new version of the Gemini app specifically for schools that offers enterprise-level data protections. Google is including access to this at no extra cost in its existing Education plans, meaning schools get access to the company's premium Gemini 2.5 Pro model without a separate fee.

For teachers, the main attraction will probably be the expansion of Gemini in the Classroom, which is now available to all Workspace for Education users at no cost. It has more than 30 new functions aimed at speeding up lesson planning and prep work, like generating vocabulary lists on the fly.

Google is also leaning into the idea of custom AI experts. You may recall Gems from the main Gemini app; educators have been creating their own, and soon they will be able to share these custom assistants with others.

The new Video Overviews (announced at I/O last month), which lets you turn sources into short, engaging educational videos, is now rolling out to NotebookLM. This feature is initially available for 18+ students and educators. Here's a sample video generated using Video Overviews:

A couple of other tools are getting AI-powered features too, although these are for paid add-ons. You can now use Veo 3 in Google Vids to create short, eight-second sound effects, and rolling out now, Gemini in Forms can help teachers build quizzes and surveys much faster; this used to be a Workspace Labs feature that's now getting a general release.

Gemini in Forms can even generate a quiz directly from a PDF or a Google Slides presentation you point it to, and can help summarize the responses once they are in.

Students 18 and over can now use something called Gemini Canvas to generate personalized quizzes on any topic to help them study. Google has promised this will expand to younger students in the coming weeks.

Google also said that NotebookLM is coming to students of all ages through their school accounts, but with stricter content policies and AI literacy guides built in. And as expected, admins will have full control over all of this in the Admin console, letting them manage access, view reports, and search conversations with Vault if needed.

You can find more details in the official announcement post.