About Classroom User Accounts
Depending on your learning setting, there are different types of accounts for Classroom.
School account
You get a school account from an accredited school using Google Workspace for Education. Your school’s IT administrator creates and manages these accounts and gives you your email and password. The account looks like you@yourschool.edu. If you use Classroom in a school and want to access Classroom from home, use your school account to sign in.
Note: Due to privacy laws, parents and guardians can’t access Classroom or student assignments. They can get email summaries if the teacher allows it. For details, go to About guardian email summaries.
Personal Google Account
A personal Google Account is one that you create. You’re likely to use it with Classroom outside a school setting, such as a tutoring center or homeschool. It might look like you@gmail.com.
When you use a personal account, you can’t access the same Classroom features as other accounts, With a personal account:
- Students can’t email classmates.
- Teachers can’t invite guardians to sign up for email summaries.
- Children who have an account managed by a parent can’t create or teach classes.
Each country has its own minimum age requirement for creating a Google Account. Children who don’t meet the minimum age requirements can have an adult create an account.
Google Workspace account
Important: Children aged 13 and under should only use Classroom with a Google Workspace for Education or Workspace for Nonprofits account.
A Google Workspace account is typically used in large organizations that run Workspace Basic, Business, Google Workspace for Education Plus, or Workspace for Nonprofits. Your organization’s admin creates and manages these accounts and gives you your email address and password. The account looks like you@yourcompany.com. For more details, go to Choose your Google Workspace edition.
Classroom accounts FAQ
Can I join classes created by other account types?
If your organization’s admin and account type allows it, you might be able to join classes created by users with different account types.
| If a user accesses Classroom with: | And the primary teacher accesses Classroom with: | Can the user join the class? |
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Yes, if class settings in both organizations allow it. |
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Yes, if class settings in both organizations allow it. |
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No |
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No |
| Personal Google Account |
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Yes, if the Google Workspace organization allows it. |
| Personal Google Account | Personal Google Account | Yes |
For more information, go to Control user access to Classroom.
What are Drive storage limits for each account type?
Classroom works with Google Drive and Docs and other Workspace services.
Google Workspace storage is shared between Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos. Learn how storage use is calculated.
The amount of storage for each user depends on your Google Workspace edition. Most Google Workspace editions have pooled storage. Pooled storage is indicated in the following tables as total storage or a storage amount times the number of End User licenses.
Pooled storage is granted in stages:
- At the time of purchase, you get part of your storage.
- Your storage increases to your total storage limit after you make a $30 USD payment for your subscription.
- You may make a manual payment or pay early to be granted all storage faster. It can take up to 72 hours after a payment for your storage to increase.
| Google Workspace Edition or Subscription | Storage Limits |
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G Suite Basic No longer available for new customers |
30 GB per End User |
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G Suite Business G Suite Business – Archived Users No longer available for new customers |
Unlimited storage 1 TB per Archived User |
| Google Workspace Business Starter | 30 GB times the number of End Users, including Archived Users |
| Google Workspace Business Standard | 2 TB times the number of End Users, including Archived Users |
| Google Workspace Business Plus | 5 TB times the number of End Users, including Archived Users |
| Google Workspace Enterprise Starter | 1 TB times the number of End Users |
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Google Workspace Enterprise Standard Google Workspace Enterprise Plus |
5 TB times the number of End Users, including Archived Users For customers with 5 or more End Users, more storage may be available at Google’s discretion upon reasonable request. Learn how to request storage. |
Google Workspace for Education
| Google Workspace Edition or Subscription | Storage Limits |
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Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals Google Workspace for Education Standard |
100 TB total for all End Users |
| Google Workspace for Education Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Additional 100 GB times the number of End User licenses |
| Google Workspace for Education Plus | Additional 20 GB times the number of End User licenses |
For more information about storage for Google Workspace for Education storage, go to Understand storage availability and usage.
Google Workspace Essentials
Google Workspace Essentials editions do not include Gmail.
| Google Workspace Edition or Subscription | Storage Limits |
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Google Workspace Essentials Starter |
15 GB per End User |
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Google Workspace Essentials No longer available for new customers |
100 GB times the number of End User, up to a maximum of 2 TB |
| Google Workspace Enterprise Essentials | 1 TB times the number of End Users |
| Google Workspace Enterprise Essentials Plus | 5 TB times the number of End Users |
Google Workspace Frontline
| Google Workspace Edition or Subscription | Storage Limits |
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Google Workspace Frontline Starter Google Workspace Frontline Standard Google Workspace Frontline Plus |
5 GB per End User* |
*This storage limit applies to all End Users using a Google Workspace Frontline edition, even if the Customer purchased another Google Workspace offering with different storage limits.
Google Workspace for Nonprofits
| Google Workspace Edition or Subscription | Storage Limits |
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Google Workspace for Nonprofits |
100 TB for all End Users |
You can increase your Drive storage limit. For details, go to Options for adding drive storage.
