Gemini Gems available for Fundamentals!
News published here.https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2025/03/gemini-gems-deep-research-available-for-more-google-workspace-customers.htmlI've only tested the plus-button. Plus-button works.
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Google for Education User Experience Survey_Q1
Hi Admins, We'd love to hear about how you're using the Google for Education Admin Hub and how you connect with others about Google for Education. Would you mind taking 5 minutes to complete this form https://forms.gle/PVK2XuyDqcq5cJLg9? Your ins...
Gemini for Students - Case for allowing
Hi All,I'll be leading a generative AI working group for my school, and I'd like to make a case for allowing our upper school students (grades 9-12) to have Gemini access. We currently have Workspace for Education Plus and don't have budget available...
ChromeOS Certified Administrator course
Hi all,I want to let you know about a bootcamp being offered by Matt Snoxell from the APAC Google ChromeOS Enterprise team. Matt is planning to run a virtual admin bootcamp towards the end of Q3, start of Q4. It is aimed primarily at folk in the APA...
Will I be able to join more than one of the new hubs?
My function touches on both the tech and curricular parts of our school and district. Will we be able to join more than one of the new hubs?
Resolved! Prevent right-mouse click on Google Form
How do you prevent students from doing a Right-Mouse click inside a Google Form?
Empty Google Classroom summaries
I received a report from a parent that for the past few days they've gotten an empty summary email from Google Classroom. I did a search on the web but only found one other instance of someone posting about it in the last day. Has anyone else seen th...
New Community Look- Watch video for preview- Launch is March 14
I have an exciting update to share with you. I will be leading a new program launch later this month called Google Ed Leadership Program (ELP) which is a global network for K12 and higher education leaders and tech admins to collaborate and drive i...
"administrator has set when this Chromebook can be used"
Hello all, We're having an issue with some of our student devices where, when the student tries to login, they get a notification pop-up in the corner stating that they can't because the "administrator has set when this Chromebook can be used." I do...
Password Recovery?
I've been asked if we can enable some way of staff resetting their own passwords if they have forgotten them vs them calling in. You know like most other systems they can setup recover questions or etc. I found a setting under Security/Account recove...
The IT Admin’s Guide to Google AI
Just wanted to highlight this update from @claycodes in the News section. There was also a webinar shared yesterday (2/27/25) which can be viewed on-demand here. Driving the announcement was a webinar titled “The Google AI Advantage: Powering end-u...
YouTube: Sign in to confirm you're not a bot
We've been getting this more and more lately. It affects us in particular when someone embeds a YouTube Video into a slide deck or Google Site, and then tries to play it. It will say that they need to sign in, even though they most definitely are ...
YouTube
In the last two weeks, something has changed with YouTube. Teachers now are unable to play and view a video in YouTube. When we click on the play button we get this message: "Video unavailable This content isn’t available."If we paste the URL into ...
Delivery Status Issue
How do I resolve this error? Emails to students from parents, teachers, colleges, etc. are getting blocked with the error shown below. How do I resolve this issue?Thank you!!
Strange network issue?
I'm looking for an outside perspective on an issue we've been having and wondering if there is something I'm missing in troubleshooting this. We have a student whose over the past year reported their chromebook disconnecting from the wifi almost alwa...
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IWA Isolated Web Apps: The future of ChromeOS Secure Testing Platforms?
https://youtu.be/Q3b5NB-7HQQ?t=172528:4534:21 "high stakes testing stack"Found this top option as I was approving an extension in Google Workspace...
Congratulations! Thank You for Spreading Encouragement! 🎉
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...
Google for Education - Consent & License Updates - Ontario (Session)
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...
Interesting to see Google looking to move away from SMS to QR Codes
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...
Google Docs citations broken?
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...
Resolved! [Action Advised] Transition to alternate channels from Google Classroom usage metrics in the Google
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...
Teacher Pay Teacher and SeeSaw permissions
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...
📣 Admin console new page naming ~ 5 min survey ~ Your feedback matters!!!! 😄
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...
CONGRATULATIONS! Thank You for Your Engagement! 🎉
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...
Resolved! Custom JSON setting for OrbitNote extension
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...
Goog classroom Guardian Emails
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 ...
💻 Enrolled Chromebooks and Personal Accounts
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 ...
Request an eSignature on PDF files
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/...
Heads-up: Takeout Transfer was broken last summer, lots of incomplete transfers
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 ...
