Google Offers Unlimited Drive Storage to Schools for Students and Teachers

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Unlimited up to a point

In an attempt to lighten student’s loads when it comes to carrying around binders and stacks of paper, Google is hoping to get rid of all that. Google announced Drive for Education which will provide students and teachers with unlimited Drive storage.
Available to all Google Apps for Education customers at no charge, Google Apps for Education project manager Ben Schrom said in a blog post, “No more worrying about how much space you have left or about which user needs more gigabytes. Drive for Education supports individual files up to 5TB in size and will be available in coming weeks.”
In addition, Google Apps Vault will be free to all Apps for Education users sometime around the end of the year. Also coming at an undisclosed time will be reporting and editing tools that will let users see the activity of a file.
“We want educators and students who use Google Apps for Education to be able to focus on the learning experience—not the technology that supports it,” said Schom. “With Drive for Education, users can put an end to worries about storage limits and more easily maintain a safe, effective and compliant learning environment.”
Back in May, Google announced Classroom, a free tool in Google Apps for Education that catered to teachers with the goal of making their lives easier and more organized. As a part of Drive, Classroom would allow teachers to automatically organize assignments into folders. Now, it seems, Google is trying to make students' lives easier.
So what do you think of Drive for Education?
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