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Google Colab

I think there was a post about providing access to https://colab.research.google.com/ from the Google+ days.Any advice/info on providing students access to this service?

Resolved! new touchpad options and display options

Ever since we updated to OS 117, our students have started getting this option when they sign into a chromebook for the first time. Since we have enabled clearing of local data on our elementary students, this happens everytime. Does anybody know i...

Google MFA for external logins

I was in a meeting today and someone mentioned that they had MFA set up for students through Azure, but they didn't need to use it when on-site, only external connections. Does anyone know if something like this is possible with Google MFA without u...

weird url to bypass filtering

We have been seeing an uptick of student users fnding ways to access otherwise blocked gaming websites while at school (no way, right!).Most recently, I have noticed url look like this example: https://9pbkvq3vc4bauslnloca9t4bllk816a4-a-sites-openso...

gam command to remove acl "visible to anyone in "domain name"

Does anyone know if (what it is) there is a GAM command line to remove "visible to anyone in "domain name" "?

Admin Controls for Improved Suggestions

We recently brought Hapara into our enterprise. One of its features is a "focus session" that a teacher can "limit" the web activity of a student to specified URL's. Pretty brilliant. It's like a mini-lockdown. However, one math teacher discovered t...

Resolved! Network SSO?

We've come across a growing issue for sites using sign in with google. We are in the US and our firewall is set to only allow connections to US sites. And this as always been fine but in the past few weeks we cannot sign in as google to may sites ev...

Classroom Analytics rolling out

Requires creating and assigning an admin role, just like with Classroom Visitor at the beginning of the school year.Make more informed decisions using Classroom analytics Did anyone get any takers for Classroom Visitor? Nobody has asked for it yet he...

Google Classroom Email Issue

For a while now, and I have tried Google Support who seem equally flummoxed, when we try and use the email people from Google Classroom option, we get the below email-quarantine message. Yet, our actual gmail DOES work. So it is very strange. I wonde...

Account recovery feature

So one of the things that I think is really great is getting emails whenever my account is logged into on a new device. I think it is a great security feature, so I recommended it to other staff. Then I found out that because we are a "Primary/Secon...

Android VPN app

A few years ago I used a fortigate VPN app on a chromebook and it worked. But now we went to try it again and it does not. I vaguely remember some VPN settings in Gsuite admin but now I cannot find them. Does anyone know if they removed that setting?

Introducing the Google for Education K-12 Cybersecurity Guidebook for K-12 IT administrators

Google for Education is excited to announce the launch of the K12 Cybersecurity Guidebook (goo.gle/k12-cyber-guide), a free, external-friendly resource for K-12 institutions globally to help them improve their security posture and better protect thei...

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Chrome remote Desktop help

Hi All,Does anyone have this running successful so that you can connect to a student's chromebook to assist them. We have enabled port 3478 for UDP and TCP. 443 is already enabledWe enabled Remote desktop Additional apps for our admin accounts.When I...

Chromebook Recovery issues

Anyone having issues recovering Chromebooks? I have an Asus CR1100 which a powerwash was not able to fix and also now the USB recovery also won't work. We just keep getting a "Error recovering device" or "Something went wrong" error.

Resolved! Global Announcement about Verifying Teachers

This is a message from Google's Marketing Team: Hi GfE Admin Community, For teachers to benefit from shared resources in Google Classroom, like practice sets, video activities and classwork, they must be verified teachers. We’ve clarified the steps t...

WPA3 in Google Admin Console networks

This is an FYI for everyone looking to update/upgrade WiFi to WPA3 and AES for security reasons. Unfortunately, Google does not have WPA3 as an option yet in the networks section for WiFi. I opened a ticket with them since there are support document...

Suppress the AD choice in Chrome

I've raised a ticket with Google about this - and I might be missing a policy settings somewhere, but is it possible to suppress the super annoying first start prompt in Chrome:Particularly difficult for very young pupils on shared Chromebooks. Have ...

Accessibility features reset after every logout/shutdown

We use Classlink as our SSO so when students turn on their chromebooks they authenticate through Google on a Classlink login page, that takes them directly to their SSO portal once authenticated. As part of that deployment, Classlink recommends we en...

Resolved! Report or investigation to find what shared drives someone has access to?

I know there are lots of different ways to collect data in Google and I'm trying to figure out a path to find what shared drives a user account has access to. In my new role when someone shifts positions or gets demoted, I need to find a way to make...

Gmail Signatures - Better way?

Hello all,We currently use Bettercloud to set our email signatures for users in GMail.We also used GCDS to sync our on-prem AD to GWorkspace.Anyhow, that mostly works fine. Took some tweaking to also insert our company logo (a png file in Drive) but...

Google Admin role for Share Drive management

As a part of cleaning up admin priv. in Google, one of our elevated admins has noticed they can't manage shared drives, or add users to shared drives (after taking away their Super Admin priv.). How would I allow the person to be able to manage share...

new tab page third party?

I have a student that whenever she opens a new tab on her chromebook it goes to a link of:chrome://new-tab-page-third-partyWith a single icon on the page called "Extensions"Cannot figure out what she did..............

Bing.com website?

Anyone having issues trying to access bing.com from a managed chromebook?

How to turn off split screen?

Is this a hardware issue or just a keyboard shortcut I can't find? How do I turn this off?

Purchases

I've used an account in our domain for years to purchase digital movies. Suddenly, I can't seem to verify the account no matter what I do in the admin panel or in the account itself. Any suggestions?

[Global opportunity] Participate in a Google research study about AI

Message from ChromeOS Researcher: Hi, We hope you are well! We are seeking IT admin feedback to help shape the future of our management platform. Our research team would like to connect with 1 IT admin and invite them to participate in our research ...

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