Google Chat is a modern communications application that makes it easy for teams to collaborate in an organized way. Chat offers both 1:1 instant messaging and chat spaces (aka rooms) for ongoing and long-term conversations. Schedule meetings, create tasks, or get updates from your team right within Chat using bots to help speed up workflows. 

Chat offers seamless integration with G Suite apps like Google Meet, Docs, Sheets, and Slides so you can manage your team's work in one place.

Google Chat

Web-based access to your Connect Account

 

At a Glance

Key benefits:

  • Create rooms for ongoing, long-term conversations
  • Threaded conversations
  • Android or iOS mobile apps available
  • Download native apps for Windows or MacOS
  • Use @meet Bot to help schedule meetings and other tasks within Chat
  • Share documents and files from Drive

Specific features:

  • Approved for UC P3 data *
  • Approved for FERPA data 
  • Data encrypted in transit and at rest

*Google Workspace for Education is not acceptable for any institutional data classified as "critical," including certain personally identifiable human subject data. Please visit the Security website for detailed information related to acceptable data use on Google.

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Whether in a 1:1 chat or a dedicated group workspace, Google Chat makes it easy to collaborate with your team in an organized way. Share and discuss Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides all in one place. Think of this product like Google’s answer to Slack.

  • Send direct messages
  • Create rooms
  • Collaborate in Chat
  • Start a video meeting
  • Add files to conversations
  • Search in Chat

To learn about these and more things you can do in Chat visit Get started with Chat.

Google Chat expands the team collaboration capabilities of Google Workspace by adding a persistent place to discuss a team's work, beyond collaborating within a Google Doc.
 

People who work in teams benefit most directly from Google Chat since Connect Google Workspace users gain a central hub to share and discuss as a group. Google Chat may reduce the need for teams to turn to other tools, such as email or Slack while working on projects.

Go to chat.google.com and sign in with your Connect account to access Google Chat in your web browser. Or, install the Google Chat app on your mobile device (for Android or iOS).