Google’s invasion of our classrooms continues unabated. Back in August in the search giant released an online education tool for teachers who wanted to digitally manage their classes, and now it’s launched an improved version of Google Drive that’s free for folks toiling away in academia. The company’s new Drive for Education is basically the same thing as its enterprise-based Drive for Work, which means you’re looking at unlimited storage space and access to Google Vault for message archiving.
Students whose school use Google Apps for Education will soon be able to store as many files in their Google Drive folders as they like. Earlier this year, Google launched Drive for Work, its premium $10/month version of Google Drive with unlimited storage and a couple of additional enterprise features. Today, the company announced that is bringing unlimited storage to Google Apps for Education soon, too, with the launch of Drive for Education. Individual files can measure up to 5TB, which should be more than enough for most legitimate use cases. Just like the rest of the Google Apps for Education suite, Drive for Education is available free of charge for all non-profit educational institutions (and there are no ads either). As a Google spokesperson told me, Drive for Education will automatically become available to all Google Apps for Education users over the coming weeks. This is a slow rollout, however, and it will be a few weeks before it reaches all users.
