{"slug": "google-workspace-adds-gemini-classroom-integration-longer-veo-videos-enhanced-ai", "title": "Google Workspace Adds Gemini Classroom Integration, Longer Veo Videos, Enhanced AI Avatars, and New Admin Chat Controls", "summary": "Google released multiple Workspace updates on June 17, 2026, integrating Gemini with Google Classroom for education, enabling longer Veo videos and parallel generation in Google Vids, enhancing AI avatars with Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS and Veo 3.1, and adding new admin controls for temporary chats and conversation deletion in Gemini. The updates deepen AI integration into everyday workflows, offering educators, content creators, and administrators new capabilities for customization, efficiency, and governance.", "body_md": "[Gemini](https://www.narracomm.com/category/gemini/)|\n\n[Launch Radar](https://www.narracomm.com/category/launch-radar/)|\n\n[Veo](https://www.narracomm.com/category/google/veo/)\n\n# Google Workspace Adds Gemini Classroom Integration, Longer Veo Videos, Enhanced AI Avatars, and New Admin Chat Controls\n\nGoogle [released](https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/) multiple Workspace updates on June 17, 2026, expanding AI capabilities across Gemini and Google Vids while adding new customization and admin controls.\n\nThe changes focus on deeper context awareness in education, more powerful video generation, and greater user control over chat history.\n\n### Key Updates\n\n**Gemini + Google Classroom Integration**\n\nGemini can now collaborate directly with Google Classroom, using context from the teaching environment. This allows educators to tailor resources to student needs and build on existing classroom materials.\n\n**Longer Veo Videos and Parallel Generation in Google Vids**\n\nAll Vids users can now create longer videos with consistent characters and generate multiple videos in parallel. The updates aim to help users bring their vision to life more efficiently.\n\n**Enhanced AI Avatars in Google Vids**\n\nAI avatars have been upgraded with Gemini 3.1 Flash Text-To-Speech (TTS) and the latest Veo 3.1 capabilities. Improvements include more realistic and expressive avatars, expanded language support, a new collection of avatar defaults, and enhanced direction controls.\n\n**Temporary Chats and Conversation Deletion Controls for Gemini**\n\nAdmins now have two new controls in the Gemini app (gemini.google.com). They can configure whether users are allowed to use temporary chats and whether users can delete their own conversation history. Temporary chats enable conversations without saving to history.\n\n**Custom Event Colors in Google Calendar**\n\nGoogle Calendar is expanding beyond the previous limit of 11 predefined event colors, giving users a broader palette to personalize and visually organize their calendars.\n\n### What This Means\n\nThese updates continue Google’s push to embed generative AI deeper into everyday Workspace workflows. The Classroom integration adds education-specific context, while the Veo and avatar improvements target faster, higher-quality video creation inside Vids. The new Gemini chat controls give organizations more granular governance over AI usage and data retention.\n\nNo specific rollout timelines or plan restrictions were detailed beyond “all Vids users” for the video features and admin configuration for the Gemini chat settings.\n\n### Actions to Take\n\n**Educators and Google Classroom admins** should test Gemini’s new ability to pull context directly from Classroom materials and experiment with generating tailored student resources.\n\n**Google Vids users and content creators** should immediately try creating longer videos with consistent characters and generating multiple versions in parallel to evaluate efficiency gains for marketing, training, or internal communications.\n\n**Workspace administrators** should review the new Gemini app controls and decide on the appropriate settings for temporary chats and conversation deletion based on their organization’s data retention and compliance policies.\n\n**Power users** relying on Google Calendar for complex scheduling should explore the expanded color palette to improve visual organization of events and projects.\n\n**Teams using AI avatars** in Vids should test the updated Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS and Veo 3.1 capabilities, particularly for multilingual content or scenarios requiring more expressive, realistic on-screen presenters.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-workspace-adds-gemini-classroom-integration-longer-veo-videos-enhanced-ai", "canonical_source": "https://www.narracomm.com/google-workspace-adds-gemini-classroom-integration-longer-veo-videos-enhanced-ai-avatars-and-new-admin-chat-controls/", "published_at": "2026-06-18 06:36:54+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-18 06:58:37.621267+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "ai-agents", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Google", "Gemini", "Google Classroom", "Google Vids", "Veo", "Gemini 3.1 Flash", "Veo 3.1", "Google Calendar"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-workspace-adds-gemini-classroom-integration-longer-veo-videos-enhanced-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-workspace-adds-gemini-classroom-integration-longer-veo-videos-enhanced-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-workspace-adds-gemini-classroom-integration-longer-veo-videos-enhanced-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-workspace-adds-gemini-classroom-integration-longer-veo-videos-enhanced-ai.jsonld"}}