Google Workspace
What is Google Workspace?
Google Workspace is a suite of online software applications that allows users to share information and ideas using Google’s communication, collaboration, and publishing tools. These apps help you work from anywhere on any device.
Learn more about these tools below.
What is Google Calendar?
With Google Calendar, you can quickly schedule meetings and events and get reminders about upcoming activities, so you always know what’s next. Calendar is designed for teams, so it’s easy to share your schedule with others and create multiple calendars that you and your team can use together.
What is Google Chat?
Google Chat is a messaging platform built for teams. Whether in a 1:1 chat or a dedicated group workspace, Google Chat makes it easy to collaborate with others in an organized way. Share and discuss files from Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides all in one place.
What is Google Docs?
Write reports, create joint project proposals, keep track of meeting notes, and more. With Google Docs, you can create and edit text documents right in your web browser—no special software is required. Even better, multiple people can work at the same time, you can see people’s changes as they make them, and every change is saved automatically.
What is Google Drive?
With Google Drive, you can store your files securely and open or edit them from any device. Files you create with Google apps open in your browser or mobile app. Other types of files in your Drive folder open in their regular applications (like Adobe Reader for PDF files).
What is Google Forms?
Manage event registrations, create a quick opinion poll, create quizzes, and much more. With Google Forms, you can create surveys or quizzes right in your mobile or web browser—no special software required. You get instant results as they come in. And, you can summarize results at a glance with charts and graphs.
What is Gmail?
With Gmail, your email is stored safely in the cloud. You can get to messages from any computer or device with a web browser. You can join or start a video meeting in Google Meet right from Gmail. Add Google Chat to your Gmail inbox and get all the features of Chat directly in Gmail. You can also quickly organize and find important email, as well as read and draft email without an internet connection.
What is Google Meet?
With Google Meet, you can hold impromptu video meetings on the go, host or attend virtual training classes around the world, perform remote interviews, and much more.
What is Google Sheets?
With Google Sheets, you can create and edit spreadsheets directly in your web browser—no special software is required. Multiple people can work simultaneously, you can see people’s changes as they make them, and every change is saved automatically.
What is Google Slides?
Create and present professional presentations with Google Slides. You can create presentations right in your web browser. You and your team can collaborate on slides at the same time, so you can see people’s changes as they make them, and every change is automatically saved.
Google Accessibility Information
At Georgia Southern University, we believe that all students should have equal technology opportunities in the classroom. The following list includes technologies that may appear in Georgia Southern courses and the accessibility information for each of those technologies.
Last updated: 7/27/2023