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THIS IS COOL! - Lock files more easily in Google Drive

Lock files more easily in Google DriveRolling out from yesterday. Anyone have it yet?

Resolved! Transfer ownership of shared calendar

I thought there was a way a Super Admin could see all users Calendars and change settings, or am I mistaken?I was asked to transfer ownership of a users shared calendar (not the particular users actual calendar, something like "Our dept event calenda...

Resolved! Google Sheets Apps Script

I have a bit of experience with Google Apps Scripts, and already have one setup that emails specific people when a certain form is submitted.I am now trying to set one to do slightly different task. There is a form that students fill out requesting t...

Chromebook, Chromecast and Projector

We have our teachers' Chromebooks using Chromecast and a projector in their classrooms. Is there a way to extend the Chromebook desktop instead of mirroring?

💌 An invitation to help shape Google for Education’s roadmap 💌

This invitation is for customers in the US and Canada only We look forward to expanding this feedback opportunity to other locations soon. Customer feedback is core to how we develop our products, and we always want to know what problems you’d like G...

Resolved! Cloud Training Offerings

I'd like to invite you to participate in these training offerings and then feel free to start a discussion about your learnings within the forum. 1. Google Workspace for Education: Managing Services: https://www.coursera.org/projects/googlecloud-go...

Console Issues? 8/31/23 2pm

We're having trouble with the following Google Admin Console actions:Rename OUDelete OUAdjust GMail Routing forwardingAnyone else?#GfEcanaries

Appointment schedules less than 15 minutes?

In the past, we used Appointment Slots for parent conference sign ups. I love the look and feel of Appointment Schedules so much more than Slots, however, the minimum time on Schedules is 15 minutes and we need 10. It looks like we can still use Sl...

Chat | Chat Externally

Not sure if I have missed a notification, but our Chat externally setting appeared to have reverted to OFF. I have checked the Audit logs and cannot see any report of this settings change.Has anyone else seen this? Was it changed due Hangouts setting...

Point in Time Email Export

Long time member, but first post in the new platform! We have a situation where we need a point in time email export of a user's inbox to provide to another non-technical user to maintain for a period of time so they can search it if/when needed. The...

Resolved! CAPTCHA when resetting several account passwords at once

Is there any way to avoid triggering CAPTCHAs when resetting several account passwords at once? Yesterday, we had new student orientation and had them set their passwords from the default password, and after about two groups of students, everyone sta...

Resolved! Another thing to block

Now chrome has a customize button on the bottom right. Students are using this to add inappropriate pics. Can this be disabled?

Resolved! Google Workspaces Product Suggestions

Does Google monitor this forum for feedback and suggestions? Where is the best place to post them?

Resolved! Situation? Shared files for a suspended ot deleted user

I was wondering how you all handle this. User is employed, shared documents. User leaves. We suspend the account or at some point delete it. Then sometimes months later we get requests I cannot access this shared document etc. Sometimes I can find it...

Outgoing and Incoming Domain Email Report?

Hey Folks,Im wanting to obtain a report that shows me the amount of emails going out and coming in by domain. We are on Education Fundamentals and am not sure if there is a way to do this, or if Education Plus is needed.Long over due, but we are want...

Device Management: 'Recent Users' not reporting

In Device Management, you can see Recent Users who have logged into a chromebook. However, it has stopped syncing for us and recent users are not showing- the last users are from the last school year that ended back in May (these are our cart chromeb...

Penalty Box

I want to set up a Penalty Box for students who need limited internet access. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you in advance!

Youtube restriction blocking uploading? What has to be changed now?

Managed to figure it out. Students must be marked as 18 or older to have upload ability.I thought I had a way to allow specific students to upload to youtube last year and now I seem to have forgotten how it was done.Do I now have to specifically sa...

Block Google Drive domain

This may have been asked (most likely has been, maybe even by me...) but is there a way to block an entire domain from sending any communication (email and Drive) to us? I've reached out at least once before to someone in their IT department but I ju...

Google chromebook login issues?

Hello, I have students trying to login to chromebooks. The device takes the username and password, but then flashes to a black screen and goes back to the login screen. Students cannot seem to login. I have seen this in the past. Is something wron...

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Dear Colleagues, We invite you to complete this brief survey about your experience interacting with Google for Education over the past few months. Your responses will help us better understand your experience and will help us understand how you conne...

What's the easiest way to give me personal-phone Android using staff access to our Wifi profiles?

For Apple users our MDMs have BYOD profiles where users can simply enroll with their Google account and it pulls down the necessary profiles to connect, and it's really nice because I don't have any kind of ability to track or erase their phone. It's...

Resolved! New User initial password email

Is there a way to change the length of time before the email sent to a new user to create an initial password when you create their google workspace account expires?

Version history in Google Apps Script editor!

This is an amazing update, requested since the dawn of time.http://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/08/apps-script-project-history.htmlIt has always been a painful experience after adjusting the code in one of your scripis to realise you broke it...

Recycled Chromebooks still enrolled in school domain (MDM Locked)

Hi everyone!I'm Racha, Product Manager on our ChromeOS team. Hoping to get your feedback on the following topic. Any insight from this community would be phenomenal. We have recently learned that a number of Education Chromebooks reaching recycling s...

Admin for single domain

We have added a domain to our Google domain for virtual school, but we need to add a user account to manage that domain only. I have tried adding a new role, but from everything I can see, I can't limit the user to a single domain or even an OU.We pa...

Google licenses

I took on a new role a few months ago and have had a lot of new things to learn. I am looking to clean up my licenses (because I have to within the next few days before our renewal). This has never been cleaned up and I have lots of users that have...

Google Calendar app iOS weirdness

Anyone else experience this issue on their Google Calendar app on iOS?I am signed in with my personal gmail and workspace account. Only recently when I am in my personal account in the Google Calendar app, and I go to click the "+" to add an event, i...

Google Credential Provider for Windows (GCPW)

Hello,We have deployed GCPW to our 500 administrative Windows 11 computers. We do not have AD/Azure user accounts or domain joined computers and are exclusively relying on GCPW. I find it alarming that the official Google documentation states that ...

Read &Write for Google Chrome

I am trying to deploy the extension via the Google Admin Console.For my staff OU there is no problem.For my student OU, I set it to allow install. I see a triangle with an exclamation mark. When I click on that, I get this message: The Chrome Web Sto...

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