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edTech recap: November 2025
Friday, 05 December 2025 in Blog
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November brought some exciting new features to Google Workspace, including major AI enhancements across the Gemini app, NotebookLM, and Vids. Gemini app Model and tool options The model you select can impact both the quality and speed of responses, …
edTech recap: October 2025
Tuesday, 04 November 2025 in Blog
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October brought some great new features to Google Workspace, a major update from Canva, and new AI resources from Google. Google Classroom: generate stories in Read Along Google’s Read Along is a reading app aimed at children in years …
Timers in Meet
Tuesday, 14 October 2025 in Blog
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Meet now has countdown timers built in ⏲️ Meeting hosts and co-hosts can add a timer in meetings. While it’s running, you have options to pause, cancel, or extend the timer. Once started, all participants see the countdown on screen. …
Gemini's image support just got better
Monday, 08 September 2025 in Blog
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The Gemini app got a huge upgrade to its image support with Google’s Nano Banana 🍌 Nano Banana brings enhanced image generation, along with entirely new capabilities. You can now prompt Gemini with text, images, or a combination of …
Gemini AI in Google Classroom
Wednesday, 30 July 2025 in Blog
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Google Classroom now includes built-in Gemini AI tools ✨ There’s a wide range of tools you can try today, including: Generate quizzes Re-level text (adjust reading age) Write a story The Gemini tools area in Google Classroom. Get started …
Canva Education
Tuesday, 01 July 2025 in Blog
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Whether you’re a Canva regular or someone who’s been curious about trying it for lesson materials, presentations, or other visual content, we have good news. Canva is now streamlined for Outwood students and employees—sign in with …
Polls in Chat
Friday, 02 May 2025 in Blog
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Google Chat now includes a built-in polling feature that makes it easy to gather quick feedback and make decisions directly in your conversations. In Chat, type /poll and then Enter to create a new poll. Add 2–10 choices Option to hide the …
Adobe Express in Google Classroom
Tuesday, 29 April 2025 in Blog
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Adobe Express is an online tool for creating engaging multimedia content, including graphics and videos. It’s integration with Google Classroom is now enabled, making it easier than ever for teachers to assign creative projects to students. All …
New Gemini features: Gems and Deep Research
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 in Blog
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Two features have been added to Google’s Gemini app: Gems and Deep Research. Both are available to all Outwood staff. Gems With Gemini Gems, you can create reusable AI prompts. They can be used to create an expert on a topic or mini-tools to …