It is important to remember that Gmail files like messages and attachments including items in Spam and Trash folders will impact your storage. In other words, if you edit them after that date, they will count toward storage, too. Read that again…UNLESS THEY ARE MODIFIED. Existing files will not count toward storage, unless they’re modified on or after June 1. Starting 1 June 2021, any newly created Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms, or Jamboard files will count toward storage. You likely know that PDFs, images, and videos always counted toward storage in your personal Gmail account (since EDU was always unlimited, it didn’t matter). You initially might not be concerned because Drive documents like docs, presentations and sheets have never counted toward storage, right? Well, that is changing too. If you are managing your own Workspace domain at your school, you should be fine and potentially not impacted by these changes but it might just be a good time to start instituting good storage practices.

Google is claiming that this is “more than enough storage for over 100 million docs, 8 million presentations or 400,000 hours of video”. Wondering what “pooled storage” means? Pooled storage is shared storage across all of your users for everything in their accounts, including but not limited to files from Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos. Starting in 2022, these institutions will be capped at 100TB of pooled storage shared across all users in the domain.

Google has traditionally offered FREE unlimited storage to qualifying schools and universities. Well, the short story is that we won’t be doing that anymore. You may have missed a very important change…storage limits! For years and years, we have been touting the awesomeness of unlimited storage in Google Drive in education. With all the announcements yesterday, Google made it easy to focus on the cool changes coming to Google Classroom and the enhancements coming to Google Meet.

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