Dear Brodie McBeath, @Brodie_McBeath Congratulations on being recognized as the Google Education Admin Group member who has given the most kudos this month (January)! Your support and encouragement help create a positive and engaging community where...
Just sharing....Google will be hosting a session (Friday, 28 February · 2:00 – 2:45pm EST) to review:(1) Requirement to re-confirm access to Google Additional Services for users under 18, and(2) Updates to Education Fundamentals licensing and added l...
I find it interesting that Google wants to move away from SMS and instead use QR Codes for authentication. However, Clever has been providing users with unique QR codes for security. https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/02/23/google-confirms...
Are the Google Docs citations not working?Typically, my teacher would use the Citations tool within a Google doc to insert a website citation source.The normal process of clicking on TOOLS, CITATIONS, ADD CITATION SOURCE, source type WEBSITE, accesse...
It is unclear what is actually going away.Also, why?Is nobody interested in Apps Usage and Accounts reports?Or is it only a poorly worded email, and what they mean is that they will all (?) be found in the Investigation Tool, and not be seen in the l...
Pardon the literal screenshots from someone on my staff These seem like aggressive permissions to be asked from Teacher Pay Teacher and SeeSaw. Does anyone have any insight? Should I advise this teacher to not allow this? She found a workaround for S...
Hi Technology Leaders, Google’s User Research team would like your feedback on a potential new page within Google Admin Console. If you are interested in sharing insights, please fill out this form. Thank you! Sheethal Shobowale, on behalf of the Go...
Dear Justin W, @Justin_W Congratulations on being recognized as the Google Education Admin Group (GAEG) member with the most reply posts this month (January). Your willingness to share insights, answer questions, and contribute to discussions is w...
Hello. Anyone using the OrbitNote extension on student chromebooks?Apparently, there is a setting that should be enabled by default for this extension that is not. It is called "Open Web PDF's":This setting is accessible via an "options" menu of th...
So in Google classroom teachers can add the guardian and I guess it emailes them somehting. Status, grades etc. So I have 1 parent claiming the emails she is getting are blank. These emails are not trackable in the investigation tool so I cannot see ...
Hi Everyone,We have had a query from a parent and I'm having a little bit of trouble tracking down the answer.We have just gone with BYOD Chromebooks across many of our schools this year. We are enrolling each student's chromebook as they bring them ...
If you have Plus licenses, you no longer have to invest in a separate service for eSignature on PDFs.You can send a request for eSignature to any email. The recipient/signer does not need a Google account.https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/...
Hi all: We just got the following notice from Google. Apparently Takeout Transfer was broken last summer (right during the time so many of us were trying to reduce storage), resulting in incomplete transfers. In the case of UC Berkeley, it affected ...
[Resending this invitation to participate in survey research to improve the state of K12 content and filtering.] Dear Senior Leaders, Google is partnering with third-party vendor Hanover Research on a survey project to better understand the perspecti...
Has anyone had success delegating a mailbox to a group?I thought it was possible based on this....but attempting togam user sharethis@domain.com delegate to grouphere@domain.comresults in Add Failed: Invalid delegate
One of our users reported that they were unable to get to the password reset page on Texas's Cambium assessment system. They get the Chrome block page that says "Your Organization doesn't allow you to view this site" which typically only appears if a...
Curious if anyone is hearing any type of feedback if Google has any intention to offer a more cost effective Gemini for Workspace option for students (13+)? We have a small amount of paid Gemini Education licenses for testing Workspace integration wi...
Well that's....detailedhttps://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2025/02/google-vault-now-supports-gemini.html
This morning we heard from a number of Windows users about problems with printing and print preview.Steps to reproduce problem:When printing webpages that use text-shadow (such as Genesis and Frontline), the print preview often loads very slowly, fai...
Greetings all,I wanted to get a sanity check. Is there a way to get more information about when a specific user logged into a given chromebook than the Recent Users field of a device? We have a student who is trying to avoid filters placed on them by...
Hello All,I have a question about us moving our desktop computers from windows 10 to windows 11 and keeping Copilot active. Our teachers use Desktop computers (win10) which we will be moving them to (Win11) this summer. The question comes up with ...
Hi all:We're expanding our team here at UC Berkeley! We've got two jobs open on the Email & Collaboration Services team that I'm a member of. Please apply/please share with anyone who might be interested, and let me know if you have any questions.Sys...
Dear Admin, Google is partnering with third-party vendor Hanover Research on a survey project to better understand the perspectives and needs of IT and curriculum leaders when it comes to content filtering and monitoring on school-issued devices. We...
I'm thrilled to share that Google for Education is launching a brand-new, monthly online webinar series designed for IT Leaders: Edu on Air Each month, we'll host a webinar diving deep into our cutting-edge tools and features, including exciting up...
Hello! Has anyone had and experience (good or bad) with CTL model chromebooks? Specifically the PX111E series?https://ctl.net/collections/ctl-px111e-series?srsltid=AfmBOopLkri1zs9ZpuqKkf0Cvn_x_nVvWsHFK_fLOCST2-jbcjkl_MQBI am looking at moving away ...
So, as we go through the additional services, we have questions about the following and are also curious about what others are doing with these services (allow or not?).Google Photos- I am guessing that if not on or turned off for the students they w...
In an effort to audit and maintain our Chrome extensions, I'm trying to go over out currently deployed extensions and identify them and if we still need/use them. However, I'm finding that many of them don't list any sort of Product/Brand name and in...
I've got a staff request to allow the install of an app (Slido for Google Slides) https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/slido_for_google_slides/240609050747)Originally, they'd asked just for Slido (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sli...
When using the investigation tool to search for Gmail messages, after selecting a message to act upon, the "actions" menu has many options including "mark message as phishing" and "mark message as spam".I know the difference between a phishing email ...
Anyone else getting a 500 error message trying to access you Google Workspace admin console this morning?
