New Name: Google Apps is Now G Suite

Last week Google renamed its Google Apps for Education to G Suite for Education. Their core services remain the same; the new name is intended to better reflect their mission.

"G Suite for Education is the same set of apps that you know and love—Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Hangouts, and more— but designed with new intelligent features that make work easier and bring teachers and students together. Because we believe that when students and teachers break down silos and have collaborative tools for their classroom, amazing learning can happen." (Source: Google Blog)

The new name does come with a few new great features:

1. G Suite Training button
You will now see this new question mark in the upper right corner of your G Suite Apps. It's your personal trainer for the various Apps. You can click it at anytime to see quick tutorials on how to use the tools.

2. Natural Language Processing
You can now search your Drive "like you talk." For example, you can type "Show me slides Paul shared with me in October." You can click the suggestion to see those files.

3. Explore button
This feature was highlighted in last week's tech tip. You will see this new button in the lower right corner of Docs, Sheets and Slides. You can click this button to research the web and add content to Docs, quickly and easily design Slides, and analyze data in Sheets.