Google NEXT announcements

Google made a lot of announcements at Google NEXT

Here is a list of the popular one https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/education/googlecloudnext-edu/ I have outlined my favorites and added one not annonced but really awesome.

1. Insert Audio in Google Slides
https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/04/add-audio-to-slides.html

2. Edit Office Files including Word, Excel, Powerpoint without needing to convert to Google format and allow to collaborate as well.

https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/04/office-editing.html

3.Live Captions in Hangout Meet: First introduced in Google Slides, closed caption allows you to have a have a written bar at the bottom with everything being said. The system uses your microphone to use text to speech, and write what your are saying. This is now available to online sessions using Google Meet. Currently only available in english.

https://gsuiteupdates.gooork gleblog.com/2019/04/live-captions-in-meet.html

4. Schedule Email,  write now send later: https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/04/write-now-send-later-with-schedule-send.html

5. Google Assistant with Work and School accounts: The Google Assistant is what powers your android device but also your Google Home and minis. For unknown reasons you could not use your school account calendar with these devices. Now you can,
https://support.google.com/assistant/answer/7219584?hl=en