Important Upcoming Google Chat Features & Changes
Google Chat will be receiving two major (and positive!) updates that will affect your day-to-day use of the service, including a fresh coat of paint that will bring a more modernized visual experience and the conversion of older threading-style of Google Chat Spaces by “topic” to in-line threading. Spaces threaded by “topic” will be converted […]
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 […]
Google Updates Recap for February – March, 2023
We’re excited to provide you with our February to March of 2023 Google Feature Updates post. This post includes new functions in Google Sheets, reactions in Google Meet, a refreshed interface for Drive and the Docs Editors, new smart canvas features, and more. Table of contents Google Calendar Check availability across multiple calendars when using […]
Google Updates Recap for October 24, 2022 to January 20, 2023
As we jump into the thick of 2023, we’re happy to provide our first features blog post for the year which discusses several great features recently announced by Google. We’re eagerly looking forward to what this year will have in store for enriching collaboration. Check out the Table of Contents below to find the features […]
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 Cloud Next Feature Announcements
Table of contents Speaker spotlight in Slides for Google Meet Meeting room check-in for Google Meet Automatic video framing in Meet Companion mode mobile as a second screen in Meet Controlling Slides directly within Meet Inline threaded conversations in Google Chat Broadcast-only spaces in Google Chat Custom building blocks in Google Docs Variables in Google […]
Google Updates Recap for August 22 to October 21, 2022
We’re excited to discuss some exciting features in this blog post that are both newly announced and previously anticipated, including in-line threading for Google Chat, transcriptions for Google Meet meetings. Also keep an eye out for our upcoming post regarding feature announcement news from the recent Google Cloud Next event. If you’d like to subscribe […]
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 […]
Google Updates Recap for June 6 to July 22, 2022
In this feature update, we’re excited to announce some enhancements that have been added by popular request, including rich text formatting in Google Forms and anonymous Q/A and polling in Google Meet. Other new features include increased member limits in Google Chat Spaces, improved email notifications for calendar invitations, and a new “Also Invited” list […]
Google Updates Recap for May 9 to June 3, 2022
In this Recap, we have several quality-of-life features we think will be very useful and are looking forward to, as well as some important news regarding Google’s consumer “Duo” service merging with Google Meet. If you’d like to subscribe to the blog to be notified of the latest posts, get started by clicking the “Follow” […]