Gemini Youth Experience

Starting in November 2024, the Gemini App (gemini.google.com) is available for students aged 13 and older. Google has built a Gemini experience specifically for students under 13 after consulting with child development and learning science experts and testing with youth advisory panels. Before enabling Gemini for your youth experience users, you should consider some important information.

Admin Configuration

To enable Gemini for your youth experience users, go to Generative AI > Gemini app in the Admin console.

• Under Service status, choose ON for the OUs or groups for which you want to enable Gemini.

Note: The Gemini App is only available to users aged 13 and older. You must set Service status to OFF for OUs and/or groups containing users under the age of 13, per the Google Workspace for Education Terms of Service.

To ensure that your youth experience users receive the correct Gemini experience, verify that your age-based access settings are correct. Go to Account > Account settings > Age based access settings. Review this setting for your OUs and/or groups and set them appropriately as under 18 or over 18.

How Gemini for Youth Experience Differs from Regular Gemini

The youth experience in Gemini is different from the regular Gemini experience in several ways:

• Youth experience users cannot create images with Gemini.
• Depending on the prompt, responses are double-checked with a Google search to see if any conflicting or inaccurate information is returned, or sources that informed the responses are cited and linked at the end of the response.
• Questions or prompts related to topics that might be considered dangerous, inappropriate, or illegal are replied to with advice on who to contact for help or visually denoted with an alert.
• Common Sense Media ranks the Gemini Youth Experience as Low Risk and Designed for Kids.

Data Privacy

For any user who accesses Gemini with a Google Workspace for Education account, regardless of license or edition, their interactions with Gemini:

• Will not be reviewed by humans
• Will not be used to improve Gemini or other generative AI models
• Are covered by the Google Workspace for Education Terms of Service and are compliant with FERPA, COPPA, and HIPAA.

Parental Consent

Gemini is a Core Service for all editions of Workspace for Education. See, Gemini App and NotebookLM Are Now Core Services for Workspace for Education: What You Need to Know. Check your organization’s policies on obtaining consent for the Core Services of Google Workspace for Education.

Admin Reporting and Logs

Users’ activity in Gemini can be searched and exported in Google Vault. Please note that at this time:

• Retention rules and holds for Gemini are not currently supported in Vault; Google indicates these features will be included in a future update.