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Prevent students from creating group Chats

Is there anyone who knows if Google Workspace Education Team is working on some function to handle the Chat-funktion more in Google Workspace? Today students can use chat just as they want and create Goup-chats and spaces, and we find this to open up...

Akaas by New Contributor II
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Meet Gesture Recognition

We noticed that gestures were turned on in our Meet today.Examples: Thumbs up, two thumbs up, two finger peace signIs this the same feature? or perhaps an evolution of it?We don't recall enabling it, and it's supposed to be off by default....but mayb...

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Associated sheet response from form access denied

I was working with someone that was having several Google issues it seemed all at one time (such as 2k+ emails being "read" and apparently deleted not by the user), but this issue is only related to Google Forms.The user has a Google Form in a Shared...

Google Voice

Does anyone know if a Google Voice account is turned off for the summer, can you still get the same number when you turn it back on in the fall?  Or is there a certain number of days that they will hold the number?

panderson by Contributor III
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Data Migration from 1 workspace to many

Hello!We're in a situation where we need to split up a combine Workspace account into multiple individual domains.ie. DomainABCD > DomainA, DomainB, DomainC, DomainDAnybody have any experience migrating data from workspace>workspace? Mail/Contacts/Ca...

Yomill3 by New Contributor
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Resolved! Submitting to a Google Classroom = "Externally Visible"

Just wondering if anyone knows of any documentation that can confirm this is the case. As background, our school does not allow external users to be members of our classrooms . . . . except the one domain that we've allow-listed.Google's documentatio...

smackall by New Contributor II
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URL Blocking Issue

I have removed https://accounts.google.com from an OU in Devices>Chrome>Settings>Users & Browsers settings but I am still getting blocked when trying to log in to another Google account. What am I missing?

mw_slocoe by New Contributor II
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Lacros article from Androidcentral

https://www.androidcentral.com/chromebooks-laptops/chromeos-lacros-coming-soon "For one, you'll no longer need to switch between user accounts just because you have multiple profiles. The same profile switcher that is currently available in Chrome on...

Resolved! Students sharing docs with students

Hello,A teacher has asked me why some of her students cannot share a doc with another student. I paused and asked her if that was what she really wanted, as I do see this as a place where students could communicate during school (why we turned of cha...

Meghan by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Api Workspace directory users

Hola, buen dia, soy nuevo en el sistema de workspace for education, estoy desarrollando una plataforma y necesito hacer uso del sistema de directorios. Para ser mas claro doy un ejemplo: Un docente de la institución sin privilegios elevados e incluso...

EstebanF by New Contributor II
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Secondary calendar video conferencing

I was asked by a staff member today why they are unable to add a Google Meet through Google Calendar.  They are able to do it to their primary calendar, but this does not seem to be an option district wide on secondary calendars.  Is there a reason f...

dhalvorsen by New Contributor II
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Google Drive logout

I would like to know if there is a way to have you logged out of your Google Drive when you log out of Chrome or email.  For security reasons I do not like that drives are still available even though you are not logged in to gmail

PForcier by New Contributor
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Sensitive data sharing

If we have one file that contains sensitive data and one of the users from the organization wants to share it with some outsiders, can we stop the users from sending the file that contains the sensitive data??? or if the user is sending these types o...

aniljha by New Contributor
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Resolved! Question About Shared Drive Deleted Files Restoration

Hey folks,Age old tale, user deleted a bunch of stuff out of a Google Shared Drive, everyone freaked out, now we need to restore it. Its been under the 25 day mark, 14 to be exact, and I was able to go into Settings for Drive and Docs > Manage shared...

Cannot Create Shared Drive Folder via Service Account

Hi,I created a script to create Google Drive folders by providing the folder_id and the new folder name. This worked for all folders under "My Drive" that I share with the service account.I now want to do the same thing for a Shared Drive, but I keep...

New admin control restricts incoming Google Meet calls

Anyone else get this email, I am not sure exactly what it is doing.  Is this for classroom meets or the meets that teachers might create for their students?  Righ now, we are supposed to have where only teachers/staff can create a meet and students c...

panderson by Contributor III
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redirecting all file saves to google drive?

Hi, I've configured the option for downloads to default to drive. I was wondering if local saving (My Files) could be restricted alltogether?  Had a staff member who kept everything local and experienced extensive data loss.

DanH by New Contributor
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multiple desks on chromebook

Can we prevent students from creating multiple desks on their chromebooks?  It appears to be messing with our GoGuardian management program, potentially making them appear offline.

Changing student profile pics

I've been asked by our admins to restrict (and reset) student profile photos. I know how to restrict but I was curious what others did in this scenario. Did you just set a default photo and push to all students? Did you revert back to their letter (G...

kcalderw by Contributor
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