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Google Admin (H)ELP Series

Da qualche mese il Circolo ELP IT Admin del Centro Italia sta producendo (inizialmente con i Facilitators ma da settembre anche con altri membri del Circolo) dei video di supporto per gli amministratori di Google Workspace delle scuole d'Italia.La pl...

Extornado by New Contributor II
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Join the Google for Education Pilot Program!

The Google for Education Pilot Program is a global program that provides K12 and Higher Education schools and organizations early access to products and features across various Google tools - including emerging AI and generative AI products and featu...

Kristal by Community Manager
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Gopher for Chrome- Worth it?

I'm doing a lot of device and user cleanup this summer, and Gopher would really help me move faster and at scale. Does anyone have pricing or privacy info on this tool? Anecdotes welcome too. 

How about NotebookLM Being Shared Outside Domain

NotebookLM notebooks still can't be shared outside the domain. Google Workspace came through recently by letting us manually delete Gemini chats, so I'm really hoping they hear us on this too! We need an Admin Console setting to manage NotebookLM sha...

anderson by Contributor
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Vault: Gemini

Happy to see that Gemini chats are being included in Vault.Note that the only choices are indefinitely, and  delete ALL conversations. This misaligns this service's setting with how we choose to implement the other services which is to Purge only del...

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Education Archived User licenses & data retention

I was reading up on Archive user licenses, Does this mean after the the vault retention rules, If you don't delete the account the data that has not been deleted from the account is still there?  (IE vault retains users deleted email for x years but ...

mfoley by New Contributor III
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Google Worskpace Heard My Prayers, Thanks a lot!

I've received the Google Workspace Updates email merge about the updated that I was looking forward to receiving. Now, Admins can now configure whether users can use temporary chats and delete their conversation history. Temporary chats allows users ...

anderson by Contributor
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GCPW when Google is authenticated behind an SSO provider

Has anyone experienced or worked with this scenario:We have an SSO provider that apps authenticate to (SAML, etc.)Google authenticates (and password management) through this SSO providerHow would installing GCPW work (or not work, or difficulties) wh...

Microsoft and Google

HelloSo lots of us have to deal with 2 systems.  Microsoft and Google.   For the people who are mainly Google apps shops how do you handle authentication to Microsoft?   Do you have your users maintain 2 separate 2 factor/account configurations? Do y...

E8419 by New Contributor III
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Who has moved to Chrome devices for some or all staff

Just wonder who has decided to Move to Chrome devices for some or all of their district teachers. What issues have you had?  Have you moved any others to Chrome devices? Currently we have smartboards with smart software installed for teachers. What a...

Rick2025 by Contributor
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Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC)

HelloI am kind of curious to find out if other IT administrators have thought or have already enabled evice Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) for there schools? I know that this is not just about enabling it to work that you also have to setup rules f...

Resolved! Graduation banner in Gmail for staff..

This is a first for me. I know sometimes a personal gmail has ads in it's gmail inbox, but this is new to me. We're higher ed and so I'm curious where this banner message setting is set? We don't really use Classroom, and the user who brought this to...

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Googlebooks

There's a lot going on in this announcement!https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/google-unveils-googlebooks-a-new-line-of-ai-native-laptops/

Display assigned user on login screen

Using the AssetID field you can enable this Admin Console device setting to show custom information (student name/email address/etc) on the login screen.AssetID can also be updated directly using the GUIGAM command to bulk updategam csv devices.csv g...

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Request for the EDU Team - Youtube

I posted a few weeks ago about the issue we are having with Youtube. Hopefully someone from the EDU team sees this but we (admins) really need a more effective way of controlling Youtube. Right now (in my district) we're using a combination of Google...

kcalderw by Contributor
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Workspace Report: Chromebook Powerwash / Enroll / De-Enroll

This is one of those things that I feel should be “simple” but I’ve been banging my head against the wall here trying to get it sorted. And Gemini has been acting crazy giving me all sorts of wrong (mostly non-existent) solutions. I’m just trying to ...

Justin_W by Contributor II
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