10 ways Gemini is helping higher education institutions

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With the academic year in full swing, we've seen tremendous momentum with Gemini for Education. More than 1000 public and private higher education institutions - including Brown University, MIT, California Community Colleges, The Ohio State University, University of Michigan, Notre Dame University, Florida State University, University of California Riverside, Texas State University and Rice University to name a few - are using Gemini for Education, reaching more than 10 million college students across the United States.

How students and faculty are using Gemini

Educators and students have been using a number of new tools to help them teach and learn more effectively:

1. Using Guided Learning, which goes beyond quick answers and helps build a deep understanding
2. Preparing for exams with personalized practice quizzes, study guides and flashcards
3. Re-imagining their dorm rooms and creating professional headshots with Nano Banana
4. Summarizing and analyzing information from multiple tabs at once while working on research projects and grant writing using Gemini in Chrome
5. Creating visual explainers for presentations and group projects using video overviews
6. Studying on the go by creating multiple audio overviews within a single Notebook
7. Assigning Gems and Notebooks to students directly in the Canvas by Instructure learning management system with Gemini LTI

Build a deep understanding instead of just getting quick answers with Guided Learning

Create personalized practice quizzes and test your knowledge with flashcards in the Gemini app.

Create visual explainers for presentations and group projects using video overviews

Use Gemini's new image generation tool to reimagine your dorm room, create professional headshots, and more.

We heard from students we met during a recent campus tour who shared how Gemini and NotebookLM are helpful tools for their learning experience.

Additional improvements rolling out now and coming soon

8. Create math and physics problem sets and format academic papers with improved LaTeX rendering and PDF generation in Gemini Canvas.

9. Draft full presentations in seconds with a simple prompt in the Gemini app that can be easily exported to Google Slides.

10. Understand when you're using Gemini with a school-issued Google account, with new school logo and "EDU" labels in the top right.

Create math and physics problem sets and format academic papers with improved LaTeX rendering and PDF generation in Gemini Canvas.

Draft full presentations in seconds with a simple prompt in the Gemini app that can be easily exported to Google Slides.

Easily understand when you're using Gemini with a school-issued Google account, with new school logo and "EDU" labels in the top right.

How to get Gemini

Get started with Gemini for Education and NotebookLM at no cost, no matter what productivity suite you use. Administrators can use our online sign-up to register their domain and configure school-issued Google accounts to enable access to our no-cost, data-protected AI tools. In addition, accredited non-profit colleges and universities in the U.S. are eligible to join the Google AI for Education Accelerator, an initiative to offer free AI training and Google Career Certificates to every college student in America.

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