Google Docs is now more student-friendly–it now features tools that will help students better.
This improved version of Google Docs is the result of suggestions from summer interns at Google. Summer interns were asked to work on improving Google Docs with emphasis on usage by students.
Thanks to those interns’ suggestions, Google Docs now features an equation editor, superscripts and subscripts, translation, surveys and a few more options. You can try out all of these features by logging into your Google account.
It goes beyond saying that none of these new features are ground breaking. Office suites such as MS Office have had these features since a long time. However. these features make Google Docs better. More specifically, Google Docs is not a viable alternative to MS Office for students.
People often complain about the lack of features in Google Docs. MS Office can do a lot more when compared to Google Docs. However, it needs to be said that MS Office has been around for almost two decades while Google Docs was out of beta only a few months back.
Students form a large chunk of Google Docs’ userbase and so it is in the best interest of Google to make Google Docs more student-oriented. We can definitely expect more features in the near future as Google tweaks its offerings better.