In a blog post on Tuesday, the Google team announced the launch of Google Groups to Google Apps Premier Education Edition users.

"Google Groups is one of our most widely used applications, enabling everyone from the local hiking club to the family next door to create mailing lists and discussion forums," Google said on its blog. "Now employees within a company can create groups for their departments, their teams, or their projects. Employees can use these groups as mailing lists, but they can also share documents, spreadsheets, presentations, calendars, videos and sites with groups, instead of many individual recipients."

The search giant went on to say that users can choose to receive communications right in their email inbox, or in the Groups forum view, and will be able to access all the group archive info without any help from an IT admin.

That latter part will likely be a hit among IT admins, who only need to enable the service from the control panel, and then leave users to manage their own groups.

Watch this video demo for more info.

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