Teachers can also prep for their classes in advance, saving announcements and assignments as “drafts” and waiting to send them until they’re ready. Like in Gmail, once a new announcement or assignment is created, it will be automatically saved as a draft. Those drafts can then be accessed by multiple teachers, making it simple to collaborate on prep work.
Finally, in response to teacher feedback, we’ve made two additional changes that will make Classroom easier to use:
Autosaving grades - Grades will now be autosaved as they’re entered, meaning teachers can grade assignments over multiple sessions but still return those assignments to students all at one time.
Improved notifications - Teachers and students will now receive email notifications when private messages are left on assignments.
While admins could previously default all Hangouts chat conversation history to on or off, chat participants could change this on a per-conversation basis. With this new feature, admins can ensure chat participants cannot change this setting for new conversations. This also means that participants with Hangouts chat history forced on will not be able to communicate with participants with chat history forced off. To enforce the Hangouts chat history policy, the new Hangouts chat only option must be selected. Please note that chat within Docs and Hangouts video calls will not be available for those customers who select the Hangouts chat only option. In addition, third party chat clients will not work with the Hangouts chat only option enabled.
Vault for Hangouts Google Apps Vault lets you retain, archive, search, and export user data for your eDiscovery and compliance needs. With today’s launch, we’ll now extend Vault to support Hangouts chat history. For customers already using Vault, full chat retention for all messages will start automatically once chat history is forced on using the new setting. Release track: Rapid release and Scheduled release For more information: Help Center: New chat policies Help Center: Vault for Hangouts Google for Work blog post Note: all launches are applicable to all Google Apps editions unless otherwise noted
Month view provides a high level view of all scheduled events for a full month, allowing people to then tap on a specific day for a closer look. Access to all available views (Schedule, Day, 3 Day, Week, Month) has also been moved from the overflow menu into the navigation drawer. In addition, you can now see the color of events when jumping to a particular date from the drop down in the header when in Schedule, Day, 3 Day or Week view. We're working on bringing many improvements to the new iPhone app as well. Release track: Rapid release and Scheduled release (gradual rollout) For more information: Help Center Get the Google Calendar app for Android on Google Play Note: all launches are applicable to all Google Apps editions unless otherwise noted
Admins can view and edit custom alerts from the 'Manage alerts' page within the Reports section: Setting alerts on Drive events: Google Drive for Work and Google Apps for Education customers will now be able to configure alerts on sensitive Drive events like making a document public or a change in sharing permissions. Check out the Help Center for more details. Release track: Rapid release and Scheduled release (gradual rollout) For more information: Help Center Google for Work blog post Note: all launches are applicable to all Google Apps editions unless otherwise noted
Non-admins must have set up a recovery phone in order to reset their own password. Admins should check the Help Center for considerations regarding 2-Step Verification, off-boarding, and hijacked accounts before enabling this feature. Note: this feature is not available for customers using Single Sign-on (SSO). Release track: Rapid release and Scheduled release (gradual rollout) For more information: Help Center - Admins Help Center - Users Google for Work blog post Note: all launches are applicable to all Google Apps editions unless otherwise noted
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