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Hello Australian Admins

We are looking forward to seeing you in the Sydney Google office on Thursday or online if you can't make it in person We will have our customer engineer , Richard Johnson in the session to present to you and take part in our circle discussions See yo...

Weirdness with ChromeOS and Cameras?

Greetings all,I'm curious whether anyone has noticed weirdness with their document cameras, or any cameras for that matter, on ChromeOS since 12/4/25? In our case we've been using various doc cams with IPEVO's Visualizer via their web URL but it stop...

MattDPenn by Contributor II
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Hello ANZ Admins

We are looking forward to welcoming you to our December event for ANZ Google admins.If you know if colleagues who should be at the events please let us know !See you online or in person soon ; Auckland - Monday Dec 1, Sydney - Thursday Dec 18Steve

Workspace Licensing Changes (Announced in July '25)

We're budgeting for our Workspace license renewal, and had missed these licensing changes [Summary] [Details] [Reddit].The two largest impacts for us are: The 4:1 Licensing Model Has Gone AwayEducation Plus: Going from $5 ➝ $6/user/yearTeaching & Lea...

Member Recognition: October 2025 (Thank you @Josh!)

Hi @Josh! Congratulations on being recognized as the ELP Admin Community member with the most number of posts read and total minutes accumulated as a New Contributor for the month of October. Your willingness to participate, share insights, and contr...

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chand by Admin Moderator
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Member Recognition: October 2025 (Thank you @Justin_W!)

Dear @Justin_W  Congratulations on being recognized as the ELP Admin Community member with the most number of admin page views and total signins as a New Contributor III for the month of October. Your willingness to participate, share insights, and c...

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chand by Admin Moderator
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Limit 3rd Party Google Meet Bot Participants

We're looking to limit the use of some 3rd party meeting assistants that don't meet our data privacy standards.Typically these services have a bot join the meeting.Our staff are able to have outside Meet participants and we don't want to move to a do...

Annoying workflow when downloading

HiI can't be the only one annoyed with the way the download option is removed in file preview?In the past the download option would always be present, but at some point last year I think, the download button was removed.Whenever teachers uploads stuf...

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MarkB by New Contributor III
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Printing from managed guest session

I am needing to print from a managed guest session. I have allowed printing  Devices > Chrome > Settings > Managed Guest Session Settings, then I set up a printer in Devices > Chrome > Printers.Still no joy. What am I missing?

llennon by Admin Moderator
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Crowdsourcing Webinar Topics

Hey Admins,  We're looking for topics to source for future webinars in the months to come.  What's something that you'd like to learn more about? Simply reply to this thread or submit ideas via this 1-question form.  We'll do our best to collect thes...

chand by Admin Moderator
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Resolved! Sharing Gems with Students

Is it possible to allow teachers to share Gems with students, but not allow students to share their own Gems? I've turned off Gem sharing at the student OU level, but now it looks like they can't receive one shared through Google Classroom or directl...

steve by New Contributor III
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Screens in Balance - An interesting read from CoSN

Screens in Balance: Education, Technology, and Community ConversationsThis is an interesting report that CoSN put out on balancing screen time in classrooms.  Just wanted to share with others.  https://www.cosn.org/2025-blaschke-report-toolkit  

Students ability to clear history on managed devices

We currently have our devices set up for students that they cannot clear their browser history. We have just discovered there is a loophole in this setting. If a student signs into their school account on their phone, they can clear their browsing hi...

tneuser by New Contributor III
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External Drive file shares and security

With the ever evolving phishing campaigns that go around, I was wondering what (if anything) admins are doing to combat the "Item shared with you:" emails that users get.  Clearly you can't revoke the access.  You could use an internet filter to bloc...

dhalvorsen by New Contributor II
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