G Suite for Education FAQ

Google offers schools a hosted solution for email, calendar, and chat through G Suite for Education, our integrated communication and collaboration solution. You can complement the core suite with more Google services.

To learn about the core tools of G Suite for Education, see G Suite for K–12 Institutions.

G Suite for Education is free. We plan to keep the core offering of G Suite for Education free. This offering includes user accounts for future incoming students. 

To see the available features included in G Suite for Education, visit the G Suite for Education homepage.

For more information, review our Terms of Service.

See a list of some of the schools who use G Suite.

Yes. Beginning in June 2018, G Suite for Education will be available for homeschools.

If you run a homeschool co-op and are interested in G Suite for Education, fill out the Homeschool Co-Op Interest form to express your interest and to receive more information.

If you’re a state homeschool organization, fill out the Homeschool State Organization Interest form to express your interest.

We’ll then provide information on how to verify your local homeschool co-ops for G Suite for Education access.
 

To sign up for G Suite for Education, visit the sign-up page. You can sign up yourself or contact the Sales team for more information.

After you've signed up for G Suite for Education, you activate your services by verifying domain ownership. 

If you need help setting up your account or more information:

• Visit Sign up and get started.

• Review G Suite for Education: Domain Best Practices to get an overview of deploying G Suite.

Important: Sign up for G Suite for Education with an existing domain that you own. Domains can’t be purchased through the sign-up process. After you sign up, you have access to a free trial of G Suite Basic while your organization qualifications are reviewed. If your account isn’t approved for G Suite for Education, it will be suspended after a 30-day period. If you created email or data during this period, you'll need to move it to a Google consumer service (such as Gmail) or another service.

See the impact of using G Suite for Education.

Each user has unlimited storage for Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos. (If you’ve 4 or fewer users in your organization, each user gets 1 TB of storage.)

Inside the U.S.

• A nonprofit K–12 or higher educational institution verified by an accepted accreditation body
• A homeschool co-op verified by an eligible homeschool association

Outside the U.S.

Each country has its own requirements. For more details, see Qualifications for G Suite for Education.
 

Who else can sign up for G Suite for Education?

If you’re a church school or a research lab associated with an accredited school, you qualify for G Suite for Education. Sign up under the school's domain.
 

Who doesn't qualify for G Suite for Education?

• Student, alumni, or parent groups
• Religious organizations
• Government bodies 

Here's a comparison of G Suite for Education and G Suite Basic:

The number of users you can have on G Suite for Education is limitless (as long as you aren't generating spam). You can request more Education accounts via the Admin console interface. Also, we don't require you to remove inactive users.

Here is a comparison chart of G Suite for Education and G Suite for Nonprofits:

In all educational domains, ads are turned off for G Suite for Education services. K–12 G Suite for Education users don't see ads in Google Search when signed in with their G Suite for Education accounts.

Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Hangouts, Google Drive, and Google Sites are guaranteed to be available at least 99.9% of the time. The G Suite team is committed to providing your school with the best level of service. For more information, see the G Suite Service Level Agreement.

Nonprofit organizations can only apply for G Suite for Nonprofits. For more information, visit the Google for Nonprofits website.

We offer many resources, such as Help Centers and online presentations in our G Suite Learning Center, to help you train your users.  

On average, it takes 6 weeks to deploy G Suite. 

Yes, we provide a range of email migration options for you to migrate your old email to G Suite.

G Suite for Education services don't collect or use student data for advertising purposes or to create ad profiles.

Gmail for consumers and G Suite for Education users runs on the same infrastructure, which helps us deliver high performance, reliability, and security to all of our users. However, G Suite is a separate offering that provides more security, administrative and archiving controls for education, work, and government customers.

Like many email providers, we scan Gmail to keep our users secure and to improve their product experience. Scanning includes virus and spam protection, spell check, relevant search results, and features like Priority Inbox and autodetection of calendar events. Scanning is done on all incoming emails and is 100% automated. We don't scan G Suite for Education emails for advertising purposes.

Yes, G Suite offers the SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) Service for G Suite to integrate with your authentication system. G Suite also offers an extensive code library for your reference while setting this up. 

The G Suite Help Center is a great resource to troubleshoot any problems. If you can’t find the answer online, 24/7 phone, email, and chat support is available with your G Suite for Education account.

Note: Chat support is only available in English. If you're an administrator, sign in to your account and click Contact Us. Learn more.

Two of the most common questions regarding Google, in general, and G Suite specifically, are security and privacy. We take both topics seriously and believe that our offerings are a great option for customers.

Our business is built on our users' trust: trust in our ability to properly secure their data and our commitment to respect the privacy of the information they place in our systems by not giving that information to others or using it inappropriately.

For more information, see Your security and privacy in the Help Center and our Privacy Policy.

G Suite for Education gives schools the ability to filter, monitor, or archive mail using the advanced settings for Gmail.

Alternatively, you can implement your own monitoring, filtering, or archiving solution using an email gateway. This gateway allows your school to route all mail into and out of our system through your network and affords you the ability to monitor, filter, and archive in any way you see fit. Learn how to set up an inbound mail gateway.

If you don’t want to set up it yourself, we have several  Marketplace partners who can offer this service. 

Yes. We contractually require that schools using G Suite for Education get the parental consent required by COPPA. Our services can be used in compliance with COPPA as long as a school has parental consent. 

Yes. G Suite for Education core services comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).

Yes, G Suite for Education is available to educational institutions in Myanmar. To sign up, see Get started with G Suite for Education.