topic Re: Google Earth Project in Peer-Peer Topics

Google Earth Project

kcalderw — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:22:23 GMT

Hello all, hoping someone can assist. I just finished up a Google Support session and we worked out what's going on.

We have a teacher who is trying to have students access this lesson from PBS. When you click "Launch" it goes into Google Earth. On a student account they get a prompt to request access. On a staff account it works fine. Support deemed that it's an over 18 service and our students will be unable to access it. However, on a test student account I'm able to go to Google Earth and use it fine since we have the service on and consent allowed. We just can't access this project for some reason. I had other admins try it in their district with the same results. Once I moved my test student account into our staff OU, it worked fine. I just don't understand why the students can access Google Earth itself but not the project if they're labled under 18?

Re: Google Earth Project

Kim_Nilsson — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:34:49 GMT

This particular project isn't truly part of Google Earth, but probably deemed a separate unlisted service.

A setting which you probably have disabled for students.

Especially if you knew about this before I did. 🙂

Re: Google Earth Project

kcalderw — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:30:05 GMT

I just checked and that setting is already currently set to ON for the student OU who cannot access the project.

Re: Google Earth Project

Kim_Nilsson — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:57:16 GMT

Nothing in the logs?

Re: Google Earth Project

kcalderw — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:01:38 GMT

I'll be honest. I'm not even sure which log to look in for this type of issue.

Re: Google Earth Project

Josh — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:54:51 GMT

I'm not very familiar with Google Earth but looks like it stores projects in Google Drive.

With that in mind I would check sharing settings. I assume that your students can't access items from outside of your domain?