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?
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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...
Configure Google to auto-provision to Office 365
I am wanting to have my current Google setup auto-provision users to our Office 365 domain. The hope is to have Google authenticate the users so we do not need to manually create/manage them in O365. So, I ask, has anyone successfully set up the SSO...
Zero Touch enrollment ?
Has anyone used the Zero Touch enrollment for Chromebooks?https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/10130175?hl=enWe have startted using it and it seems fine but we ran into an issue I am emailing support about. For normal enrolled devices if I have...
move Chat in Gmail?
I am not seeing an option in the Gmail setting to move Chat to the left or right side in Gmail. Does this setting no longer exist or is there an admin control for this? "Manage Chat Settings" just brings up mainly notification settings. see screen...
Chromebook managed by...
Good afternoon all. Is anyone else enrolling new devices and instead of "chromebook managed by domain.name.here" being displayed below the login window post enrollment, it's displaying the full email address of the primary admin where the domain shou...
Does anyone create google classrooms for their counselors or other staff who are not teachers?
We have a counselor, who used to be an 8th grade teacher, asking for their own google classroom. I've moved into the security facing side of IT for our district and things I read from CISA and reviewing NIST lend me the strong argument that this wou...
Clever Badge Setup
Hello I am working on Clever Badge setup. We would like to use this with specific grade levels. One of the steps in setup they are requesting is setting up a third party sso profile for the whole organization. and using netmask 1.1.1.1/32. What d...
Resolved! Google Classroom "courseState" = Declined and provisioned
When doing a Class export using Gam (gam print courses todrive), there are some classes with the "courseStates" of "Active, Archived, Declined and Provisioned". What exactly does the "Declined or Provisioned" mean? Should they be archived along w...
Mosyle syncing users from Google Secure LDAP - possible?
I'm trying to make Mosyle sync users from Google Secure LDAP, and it just keeps complaining about "AD Error: Invalid credentials", which isn't true, as the credentials work just fine when I use them with ldapsearch in terminal.Sadly, Mosyle don't see...
Resolved! Directory Not Updating Correctly to Reflect Changes to User Information
We update job title in the employee information screen of the user info section of a user via a sync process. This is working just fine as when you look a user up in Google Admin their profile is correct.We have some users that have where the new tit...
Need advice - how to set up Google sign-on to use Microsoft IdP and MFA from MS?
Does anyone have any guides or instructions on how to set this up properly? We have Clever SAML set up for our K-2 students that use the badge reader option to sign into Google. All the instructions I can find for setting up Google to use MS as a l...
2FA via Google Admin/Trusting Device
Was wondering if there's a way of setting things up in the admin console so that it prompts a person to use their 2FA key (yubikey currently) once a day for chromebooks/boxes? Was poking around in the authentication center and the only way I see to n...
