What are Google Workspace for Education Add-ons?

Add-ons are additional features created by third-party developers who identify needs and address them using the open infrastructure of Google Workspace. Add-ons are created using Google App Script, a coding language based on JavaScript syntax. Don’t worry, while you may have to know code to write an add-on, you do not have to be a coder to use them! The best add-ons are designed to be easy enough for anyone to use.

There are three separate sets of add-ons that are each related to a different core product in the Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals suite (Docs, Forms, and Sheets). Add-ons make many things possible, including:

• Mail merge

• Automatically creating quizzes from documents

• Automatically grading quizzes using Google Forms

• Providing individualized feedback to students more easily

• Creating citations and bibliographies

• Distributing documents and folders to students more quickly