Our Youth Apprenticeship case managers work with anywhere between 75-130 students. They have a need to mass text their students weekly to remind the students to check-in with them. They want to hide the student cellphone numbers from each other and...
I know this is a setting issue but I'm not sure which one. We have students restricted from sharing/receiving docs from outside the org. A teacher has a Google form that has a link the student's follow which makes a copy for them. When the students c...
Just wondering what people's thoughts are on devices like the Echo Show 8 or smiliar devices. Do you allow them, block them, etc.
Hello How many of you currently use Azure as your IDP for Workspace? How many use Google Login stand alone? Anyone using the new web sign in with Google Federated Azure to SSO with Google Creds into Windows Intune managed laptops or desktops? I am tr...
We had a student a couple of years ago who was blocked from creating a YouTube account. They received the message 'Can't create new account because of past account issues'. After many months trying to get the issue resolved, we just created a new a...
UPDATED, see here.And updated again, see here. In case not everyone already knew.2SV required for some superadmins from 19 December 2023Google started implementing forced 2FA for admins a while ago, and it's starting to affect users now, notifying th...
From the Workspace Updates weekly recap I know some had quickly reached the old 100 groups quota. Dynamic groups limit increased to 500 We’re increasing the number of dynamic groups a customer can have from 100 to 500. Dynamic groups are defined as g...
Announcement from Kevin Apodaca, Google, posted in the GAM Spaces. I copied it here, as it may be of interest./KimHey admins! hope this is ok to reach out to power users that might be interested. Please feel free to ignore as this is not GAM-specific...
This has been going on for about a week. Students, co-teachers and, in at least one case, the Classroom owner, lose access to Google Forms/Quizzes posted in Google Classroom. Google is aware of the issue. https://support.google.com/s/community/forum/...
Greetings all,Had a bit of an odd situation brought to my attention this morning. Namely our HR person has pointed out that for two of our Google Groups we use for messaging staff there's a slew of pending messages/emails since about Dec 7thish. It's...
Hi,We have multiple Newline Q Series 86-inch displays in our district. A common problem we have with them is that the remotes that come with it barely work. We have tried changing the batteries and researched a way to re-pair them but no luck so far....
I feel it is a good talking point, as it will definitely be something people will be interested in using for Workspace in the very (near?) future, and admins may have to decide whether to allow it, which I absolutely recommend for all who don't force...
I got this from another postIf these students would spend even a sliver of the time they spend getting around my settings on actual school work, they would graduate early. Here is what they have done (and shared with others how to do). Note - we hav...
I was recently notified by a school district that even though they had Chrome Canvas turned off in Additional Services, when a student clicked the icon on the Shelf, it woudl still open. After some investigation, I was able to tell them that if they...
I have 1 OU where most, but not all, kids are missing the icons on their Google Slide menus. The menu bar is there but has not icons. They are using a slide deck assigned through Google Classroom, and one student shared it with their group members.Ex...
At some point, Google moved the icon for Spaces from the left sidebar in Gmail to the Chat flyout. Is there any way of getting it back on the sidebar? Clicking Settings --> Apps in Gmail --> Customize only gives Chat and Meet as options to show on ...
Is anyone else having issues where some users can't access Google Doc files?
Hi all I am hoping someone can help me out here.I installed another google workspace account on my IOS device so that I can test passkeys.When I go to click passkey I get a message - "A Passkey can't be created on this device"It then says Make sure y...
Does anyone know Google's limit on sharing documents in Drive before it triggers Google's spam policy? Last night we had a teacher attempt to share 18 different spreadsheets, one at a time, with teachers in a neighboring district outside of our doma...
Good Day Team, I really need some assistance on this one...I would normally do research and test bed this, but we have a pressing situation going on at the moment preventing this... Have any of you been able to successfully implement this? https://w...
Old url- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensionsSo if you like to see what the new Webstore will look like here it is with the Material designhttps://chromewebstore.google.com/
For enforcing 2FA on new accounts, Is the new user enrollment period from account creation or first sign in?
Hi all, What are your most accurate and reliable DMARC compliance tools? I'm looking for a service to translate our DMARC aggregate reports and keep ahead of any issues in SPF, DKIM that would prevent our email from being delivered. TIA!
We use a tool called Schoolcal to populate teacher Google Calendars with their school schedules from our SIS, and it's worked great for a couple of years. We just began to do the same with student Google Calendars, and the service account we set up t...
Anyone else a bit concerned there is no admin control to this it seems? Going back to Kim's point about things being released without thought for the EDU market. https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/create-shareable-video-presentations-in...
Forgive me if I should know this, but should we be able to access Bard, yet? Is there something I need to do to enable it? I do not see it in the lists of Services. Thanks!
We had a leftover Chromebox that I'm giving to our media center as a student checkout device. Obviously since this will mostly be unsupervised we want them to only get to the school's website and also Follett. I have the * in the settings to block ev...
Dear EDU Admin,We are writing to inform you that the Takeout Transfer your content tool, which allows students and staff to transfer Drive and Gmail files to another Google account, will no longer support shared-with-me file exports. The change will ...
With the end of Chrome App support approximately 1 year away the path forward for secure testing and native digital signage in CrOS is unclear.I entered a feature request to see if this can be more clearly addressed.Please comment/upvote if this woul...
Have a device that gives the following enrollment error: "the system failed to establish the device installation-time attributes lock." I can't powerwash it and I've tried recovery about 10 times with various flash drives and consistently run into "...
