April 18, 2025
Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap - April 18, 2025
1 New update
Unless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both Rapid and Scheduled Release at the same time. If not, each stage of rollout should take no more than 15 business days to complete.
Create custom chart groupings in Connected Sheets
We’re excited to announce that Connected Sheets users can now create custom groupings for numeric values in a chart. More specifically, users can control the minimum and maximum value of the buckets and the interval size of the bucket. We hope this improves upon the experience of using Connected Sheets to visualize a large amount of data. | Rolling out now to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains. | Available to Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about analyzing & refreshing BigQuery data in Google Sheets using Connected Sheets, Google Sheets limitations, and getting started with BigQuery data in Google Sheets.
Previous announcements
The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog earlier this week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.
Use Gemini in Google Classroom to generate questions or a quiz based on specific text
We're adding a text-dependent question generation tool to further our efforts for AI to help educators save time, create captivating learning experiences, and inspire creativity. | Learn more about text-dependent questions in Classroom.
Google Docs code blocks now available in additional programming languages
We’re adding support for additional code languages to give even more users the ability to easily visualize code, making more code readable and collaboration much easier. | Learn more about new programming languages for code blocks in Docs.
Google Classroom is expanding to 7 additional languages
Last month, we announced the ability to use the Google Classroom mobile app in additional languages, and today we’re excited to announce the same languages are also now available with the web experience: Afrikaans, Assamese, Estonian, French Canadian, Icelandic, Kazakh and Swahili. | Learn more about new languages in Classroom.
Introducing silent reading mode in Google Classroom’s Read Along
We’re introducing a new feature that allows students to read a book in silent reading mode. | Learn more about silent reading mode.
Control Workspace Business and Enterprise users’ access to new Google Workspace with Gemini features before general availability
In the coming weeks, Google Workspace Business and Enterprise admins will be able to turn on access to Workspace with Gemini alpha features for their users. Turning this on gives your users a head start on leveraging our latest AI features and the opportunity to provide Google with helpful feedback as we develop new features. | Learn more about access to new Gemini features before general availability.
Introducing the ability to grade and assign grading labels in bulk in Google Classroom
To further improve grading options for teachers using grading systems in Google Classroom, we recently introduced the ability to perform bulk grading via ‘grade all’. | Learn more about bulk grading in Classroom.
Updates for configuring your preferred language for “Take notes for me”, recorded captions, and meeting transcripts
You can now set your preferred language from the Calendar invite and during the meeting when using Google Meet on Android and iOS devices. | Learn more about preferred languages in Meet.
Completed rollouts
The features below completed their rollouts to Rapid Release domains, Scheduled Release domains, or both. Please refer to the original blog posts for additional details.
Rapid Release Domains:
Rapid and Scheduled Release Domains:
- Quickly add events to Google Calendar based on your emails with Gemini in Gmail
- Introducing updates to sources for NotebookLM and NotebookLM Plus
- Help me write in Google Docs now available in four additional languages
- Preview summaries in the Google Chat home view now available in three additional languages
- Deep Research is now available on Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental
- Use Gemini in Google Classroom to generate questions or a quiz based on specific text
- Introducing silent reading mode in Google Classroom’s Read Along