In coming weeks Google will be put another notch in their belt on their quest to enrich and simplify lives for educators and students. In an effort to continue helping students have use and access to the tools the need Google will be making a pretty significant change to their education suite of services with the introduction of Drive for Education.
As it sits right now Google Apps for Education customers, which includes students, are given 30GB of free online Drive storage for their papers, photos, slides, projects and everything else. They have the option to spend a small amount, $5 a month, to move up to 100GB of storage at anytime. That is about to change to completely unlimited storage for free. There is more of course:
Drive for Education will be available to all Google Apps for Education customers at no charge and will include:
- Unlimited storage: No more worrying about how much space you have left or about which user needs more gigabytes. Drive for Education supports individual files up to 5TB in size and will be available in coming weeks.
- Vault:Â Google Apps Vault, our solution for search and discovery for compliance needs, will be coming free to all Apps for Education users by the end of the year.
- Enhanced Auditing: Reporting and auditing tools and an Audit API easily let you see the activity of a file, are also on the way.
Combine this with another recent offering of being able to “borrow a Chromebook” and you have quite the suit of tools available to get your homework and projects done.
Source: Google for Education Via CNet
