Google Workspace offers subscription options for individuals, small businesses, large organizations, and schools. Compare editions in these categories:
- Business—Productivity suites for businesses with 1-300 users
- Education—Discounted suites for qualifying educational institutions
- Enterprise—Adds premium security and advanced controls for unlimited users
- Essentials—Productivity and collaboration tools without Gmail
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Compare Education editions
K–12 and higher-education institutions may qualify for our Education editions, which provide a suite of productivity tools tailored for teaching and learning. Use these tables to compare the following editions, available to qualified education institutions:
- Education Fundamentals—Access core and additional Google services for qualifying schools and universities. Add-on features available with the Teaching and Learning Upgrade and Endpoint Education Upgrade
- Education Standard—Same features as in Education Fundamentals with premium security and IT features. Add-on features available with the Teaching and Learning Upgrade
- Teaching and Learning Upgrade—Premium teaching and learning features that can be added to Education Fundamentals or Education Standard.
- Education Plus—Includes all the features in Education Standard and the Teaching and Learning Upgrade.
- Endpoint Education Upgrade—Adds advanced device management features to your Education Fundamentals edition. Learn more
| Suite wide | Service specific |
|---|---|
Service availability
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| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gmail and Calendar | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Groups for Business | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Chat and chat rooms | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Digital whiteboarding with Jamboard | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Storage and collaboration: Drive, Docs editors | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Sites | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Tasks | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Notetaking with Keep | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Video conferencing with Meet | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Directory management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Google Vault for eDiscovery and information governance | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Additional Google services | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Gemini (gemini.google.com) (as an additional Google service, no user licenses required). Learn more |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Gemini (gemini.google.com) * (as a core service with enterprise-grade data protections, user licenses required). Learn more |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Gemini for Google Workspace (add-on) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| AppSheet Core | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Google Cloud Search for internal search and assist (across Google and third-party services) |
✔** |
|||
| Integrate third-party repositories in Cloud Search | ✔** | |||
| Index third-party data using Cloud Search | ✔** |
* Requires a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on.
** For third-party services your organization must have at least 500 user licenses and a Google Cloud Search certified partner.
Usage and support
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★ Marks where the Teaching and Learning Upgrade adds value to Education Fundamentals or Standard edition
| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free* | Fee per user | ||
| Allowed number of users | Any number | Any number | ||
| 99.9% uptime guarantee | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Standard Support | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔‡ |
| Email, document, photo storage | 100 TB pooled storage | |||
| Additional pooled cloud storage | 100 GB per user ★ | 20 GB per user ‡ | ||
* For qualified educational institutions
‡ Education Plus customers can also purchase Workspace Additional Storage, which adds 10 TB to pooled storage per subscription.
User access options
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| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supported browsers | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Access across devices (computers, phones, tablets) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Offline access | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Microsoft Outlook | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| IMAP and POP mail clients | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Security and data management
Security and data protection
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| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2-Step Verification | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Security keys for 2-Step Verification | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Enforced SSL connections | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Alert center: Notifications of potential security issues | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Collaboration with trusted external domains | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Password monitoring and strength control | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Data loss prevention (DLP) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Set session length for Google Cloud services | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Set session length for Google services | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Generative AI security protections * | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Advanced data exports | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Security center: Security dashboard | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Security center: Security investigation tool | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Security center: Security health page | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Control access based on user and device context | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Client-side encryption | ✔ | ✔ |
Requires a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on.
Data regions
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| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fundamental data regions | ||||
| Set a data region policy for everyone in your organization | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Enterprise data regions | ||||
| Set policies for organizational units or groups | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| View data regions move progress | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Migration products
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| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Migrate email (< 100 users) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Migrate email, calendars, contacts, files (many tools) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Migrate from Gmail or other webmail | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Migrate from Outlook | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Have users migrate their data | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Migrate data with Google Workspace Migrate | ✔ | ✔ |
Reports and audit logs
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★ Marks where the Teaching and Learning Upgrade adds value to Education Fundamentals or Standard edition
| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Usage trends of apps and users | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Audit logs of user and admin activity | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced Drive auditing and reports | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Export reports to BigQuery | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Google Meet attendance reports | ✔ ★ | ✔ | ||
| Access Transparency logs of admin activity | ✔ | ✔ |
Endpoint management
Device security settings
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| Education Fundamentals** | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fundamental endpoint management | ||||
| Basic passcode enforcement (mobile) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Google Credential Provider for Windows (standalone) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Network management (ChromeOS, meeting room hardware) |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced endpoint management* | ||||
| Strong passcode enforcement | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Network management (mobile) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Mobile device security policies | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Android work profiles | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Enterprise endpoint management* | ||||
| iOS data protection | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Mobile device certificates | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Context-Aware Access | ✔ | ✔ | ||
* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
** Add Endpoint Education Upgrade to Education Fundamentals to get all endpoint management features
Device management
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| Education Fundamentals** | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fundamental endpoint management | ||||
| Basic mobile device management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Fundamental management for computers | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Endpoint verification | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Company-owned device inventory (endpoints) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Remote account sign-out | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Remote account wipe (mobile) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Block devices | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Drive for desktop | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced endpoint management* | ||||
| Advanced mobile management | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Zero-touch enrollment for Android devices | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Admin approval of devices | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Remote device wipe‡ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Windows device management | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Enterprise endpoint management* | ||||
| Company-owned device inventory (Android) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Company-owned device inventory (iOS) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Mobile device management rules | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| BeyondCorp Alliance partner integrations | ✔ | ✔ | ||
* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
** Add Endpoint Education Upgrade to Education Fundamentals to get all endpoint management features
‡ Remote device wipe of Windows 10 devices also requires Windows device management
Mobile app management
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| Education Fundamentals** | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fundamental endpoint management | ||||
| Public and private app management (Android) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Advanced endpoint management* | ||||
| Public app management (iOS) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Android app runtime permissions | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Selectively distribute mobile apps to users | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Publish private Android web apps | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Managed Android app settings configurations | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Enterprise endpoint management* | ||||
| Private iOS app management | ✔ | ✔ | ||
* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
** Add Endpoint Education Upgrade to Education Fundamentals to get all endpoint management features
Device details
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| Education Fundamentals** | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fundamental endpoint management | ||||
| Basic device details (mobile) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Basic endpoint details (computer & smart home devices) |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Basic device reports (Chrome & mobile) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced endpoint management* | ||||
| Advanced device reports (mobile) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Enterprise endpoint management* | ||||
| Devices audit log | ✔ | ✔ | ||
* Feature set requires enabling advanced mobile management
** Add Endpoint Education Upgrade to Education Fundamentals to get all endpoint management features
3rd-party app integration
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| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single sign-on (SSO) using Google as IdP | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Single sign-on (SSO) using a 3rd-party IdP | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| App catalog of 200+ preconfigured SAML apps | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Autoprovisioning of SAML apps (maximum number) | Unlimited | |||
| Secure LDAP: Connect LDAP-based apps and services | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Gmail
Email addresses and mailing lists
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| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your email address (you@yourcompany.com) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Additional addresses per user (sales@yourcompany.com) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Addresses at multiple domains (you@company2.com) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Admin-controlled mailing lists | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| User-controlled mailing lists | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Mail merge | ✔ | ✔ |
Email usage and limits
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| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Email storage (shared with documents and photos) | 100 TB pooled cloud storage | |||
| Attachment size limit (sending) | 25 MB | |||
| Attachment size limit (receiving) | 50 MB | |||
| Recipients per message (To, Cc, Bcc fields combined) | 2,000 (500 external) | |||
| Unique recipients per day (Each unique address counts once.) |
3,000 (2,000 external, 500 external for trial accounts) | |||
Email security and compliance
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| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Junk email filtering and virus blocking | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Gmail ads turned off | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Custom filtering and content policies | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Email and chat retention policies | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Allowed IP addresses | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| User-managed denylists | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Enforced-compliance footers | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Option to disable IMAP & POP access | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Vault for email/IM eDiscovery and archiving | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Gmail data loss prevention (DLP) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| S/MIME encryption for email | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced phishing and malware protection | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Gmail log search in BigQuery | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Malware detection in email attachments (Security Sandbox) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Client-side encryption for email | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Use optical character recognition to read images | ✔ | ✔ |
Advanced email delivery options
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| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catch-all address | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Email routing options for split and dual delivery | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Inbound gateway | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Outbound gateway (for entire organization) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Outbound relay server (for alternative From: addresses) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Receiving from multiple POP addresses | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Drive and Docs editors
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| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drive for desktop | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Turn Docs creation on or off | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Connected Sheets | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced Drive auditing and reports (Drive audit log) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Shared drives | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Drive data loss prevention (DLP) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Smart chip data extraction | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Organizational branding (custom templates) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Generative AI in Docs, Sheets, & Slides* | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Proofread documents * | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Delegate access to Connected Sheets | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Target audience groups (preset sharing options) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Manage Drive metadata (custom labels and fields) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Trust rules for Drive sharing permissions | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Client-side encryption for Drive files | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Manage document approvals | ✔ | |||
| Organizational branding (default templates and themes) ** | ✔ |
* Requires a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on
** Only Google Slides, Forms, and Sites
Groups/Groups for Business
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| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Email list groups | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Groups for content sharing, calendar invitations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Collaborative Inboxes and message moderation | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| User managed groups | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Configuration groups for use by admins | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Target audience groups (preset sharing options) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Inspect group membership | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Restrict group membership | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Dynamic groups (manage membership automatically) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| View members of nested groups (indirect members) | ✔ | ✔ |
Google Meet
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| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maximum meeting length | 24 hours | 24 hours | 24 hours | 24 hours |
| Maximum number of participants per meeting | 100 | 250 | 1,000 | |
| External participants | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Secure meetings | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Presentations and screen sharing | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| App for Android and iOS | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Hand raising | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Raise a room's hand using Meet hardware | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Moderation controls | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Digital whiteboard | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Add Meet video to Microsoft Outlook | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Custom backgrounds | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Closed Captions, viewer initiated | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Add co-hosts to meetings | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Reactions | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Generative AI in Meet ** | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Dial in (U.S. & international numbers)* | U.S. only | ✔ | ||
| Control Slides presentations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Record meetings & save them to Drive | ✔ ★ | ✔ | ||
| In-domain live streaming (maximum number viewers) |
10k ★ |
100k |
||
| Noise cancellation | ✔ ★ | ✔ | ||
| Breakout rooms | ✔ ★ | ✔ | ||
| Polls | ✔ ★ | ✔ | ||
| Q&A | ✔ ★ | ✔ | ||
| Track attendance (requires 2 or more attendees) | ✔ ★ | ✔ | ||
| Set recording quality for screen shares | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Live translated captions | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Client-side encryption for audio and video | ✔ | ✔ | ||
* Powered by Google Voice
** Requires a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on.
★ Marks where the Teaching and Learning Upgrade adds value to Education Fundamentals or Standard edition
Google Chat
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| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turn chat history on or off | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Set space history option for users | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automatically accept chat invitations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| External chat for 1:1 and group direct messages | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Allow or restrict external chat | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Allow or restrict Chat apps | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Turn external spaces on or off | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Integrate Chat with a third-party archiving solution | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Use discoverable spaces | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Chat data loss prevention (DLP) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automatically delete Chat messages for your organization | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Control file sharing in Chat | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Moderate Chat content | ✔ | ✔ |
Google Calendar
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| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team calendars | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Resource booking (rooms, buildings, equipment) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Add video conferencing to events | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automatically add events to calendars | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Sync calendars with Microsoft Exchange | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Set a default duration for events | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Set up appointment schedules | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automatically free unused meeting rooms | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Allow users to share working location | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Let users view analytics about their time allocation | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Client-side encryption for event descriptions | ✔ | ✔ |
Classroom and Assignments
★ Marks where the Teaching and Learning Upgrade adds value to Education Fundamentals or Standard edition
| Education Fundamentals | Education Standard | Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Education Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Originality reports for student assignments | 5 assignments per course | Unlimited ★ | ||
| Peer comparison on originality reports | ✔ ★ | ✔ | ||
| Practice sets | ✔ ★ | ✔ | ||
| Designate users with analytics data access | ✔ | |||
| Designate users with temporary class access | ✔ | |||
| SIS roster import | U.S. only | |||
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