Google Updates Recap: August 2025
After a brief break in updates from Google, we’re back with some added granularity in sharing controls for Google Drive and Google Forms, new host controls in Google Meet, and more quality-of-life features. Table of contents Gmail Manage email subscriptions from a single location in Gmail Link your Google Calendar booking pages when composing emails […]
Google Updates Recap: November 2024
Table of contents Important Notices Google Vids – Google’s new AI-powered video creation app for work to help tell stories across VCU Last Call: Jamboard is winding down Google Sites is no longer available Google Calendar New design and accessibility improvements for embedded Google Calendars Google Chat Transcriptions now available for voice messages in Google […]
Google Updates Recap: September 2024
This month we have some quality of life upgrades for Google Drive and Google Meet and improved tables and dropdown chips for Google Sheets. Table of contents Important Notices Jamboard is winding down Gmail Reply to emails in Gmail faster on Android devices Google Drive & Docs Editors Save files scanned in the Google Drive […]
Google Updates Recap: April 2024 + Clean-up Reminder
Table of contents Important Notices Don’t forget about Spring Cleaning! Jamboard is winding down Gmail Create fully customized email campaigns using new layout editor tool Google Chat Send voice messages in Google Chat Access and sort shared files within a space in Google Chat more easily Google Docs New ways to annotate Google Docs on […]
Google Updates Recap for October 23 – November 24, 2023
Welcome back from Fall break! We’re happy to announce a more organized way to see what Drive files you have that need activity from you on both the Web and Mobile, a new way to respond to some of those things through the Drive app for Google Chat, and 1:1 Google Meet calls on mobile. […]
Google Feature Updates Overview: April – July 2023
We interrupt your weekly Ramscaping broadcast with April through July’s new Google features blog post, where we’ll discuss the latest new features now available or rolling out to your VCU Google account. Ramscaping will resume on Wednesday! Since we have so much to cover, we will be using a slightly different format this time and […]
Welcome to 2023: Feature Updates, Upcoming Storage Changes, and more!
We’re excited to start off the year with a quick look at a brief recap of the bigger updates from last year, some upcoming feature updates, a mention of important upcoming changes to storage, and finally a mention of our training opportunities and the new IT Status page. Also keep an eye out next week […]
Google Updates Recap for July 25 to August 19, 2022
In this features update, we discuss several new and exciting features in Google Meet and Google Calendar, as well as a new SpeedGrader option for Google Assignments and edit notifications for Google Docs. If you’d like to subscribe to the blog to be notified of the latest posts, get started by clicking the “Follow” located […]
Additional Gmail security settings being turned on for VCU Google accounts
Collaboration Services will be enabling several advanced security settings in Gmail for all VCU Google Workspace accounts to enhance security and keep users safe. These security settings will include protection from suspicious email attachments and add transparency about following shortened links and links to untrusted domains. With these changes, mail will continue to be delivered, […]
Google Updates Recap for March 7 to April 8, 2022
In this recap, we will begin to include a table of contents for our updates recaps to provide an easy-to-scan outline of the contents of the post and make it easier to find what you’re looking for. We’re also excited to announce more of the previously announced features from the last Google Cloud event are […]