Google is opening its NotebookLM AI tools to students under 18

The caller Gemini tab for educators successful Google Classroom.

Google announced a assortment of caller features for its Classroom bundle suite, including escaped Gemini AI tools for educators and NotebookLM for users nether 18 — the archetypal clip the instrumentality has been disposable to minors.

Teachers with a Google Workspace relationship volition person a caller dedicated Gemini tab successful their Google Classroom, offering tools that tin assistance brainstorm acquisition plans, marque mathematics problems, oregon draught emails, among others. For those with Education Plus Edition accounts, Gemini audio lessons volition besides beryllium offered arsenic add-ons. Another caller tab for Analytics volition let teachers to way pupil performance, highlighting immoderate who person been showing caller betterment oregon who are missing assignments and whitethorn request much support.

Google volition besides beryllium opening up its NotebookLM probe and note-taking instrumentality to users nether 18 “in the coming months.” Students volition beryllium capable to usage NotebookLM to entree things similar interactive survey guides and podcast-style audio overviews based connected root materials their teachers upload. And educators tin make their ain customized Gems, mini customized Gemini agents, based connected their program to stock with students. Students volition beryllium capable to interact with a Gem to get other assistance oregon larn much astir a taxable it’s based on. This diagnostic goes 1 measurement higher arsenic well, arsenic administrators volition besides beryllium capable to stock Gems with the teachers they oversee successful their district, to assistance with acquisition readying oregon immoderate other administrators mightiness similar to micro-manage.

A fewer different caller tools coming to educators see Google Vids for generative AI video creation, a caller “Help maine make a form” diagnostic successful Gemini, and the motorboat of Google’s Class Tools. Class Tools were antecedently announced this year, and present that they’re unrecorded they’ll let teachers to negociate their students’ Chromebooks — similar sharing contented to their screens and minimizing distractions — during a lesson. By connecting straight to their students’ accounts of sharing a league code, teachers tin propulsion a workbook, video, presentation, oregon adjacent a quiz straight to their screens.

Speaking of Chromebooks, Google is besides highlighting that it’s got much than 12 caller Chromebook, Chromebook Plus, and Chromebook OPS (Intel’s Open Pluggable Specification) devices for front-of-classroom displays coming — astatine immoderate point. There’s nary circumstantial timeframe given, though the database includes the precocious announced Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 that I got a preview of, which is launching today.

With each these caller Gemini tools for teachers and students, Google is besides announcing that Gemini for Education is present the modular tier for base-level Google’s acquisition accounts. It offers Gemini 2.5 Pro AI models, which educators tin entree with higher limits than basal level user accounts. Existing Gemini Education and Gemini Education Premium add-ons volition beryllium unified arsenic Google AI Pro for Education.