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A copy of the graded work at the teacher - Classroom

Hello,Is it possible that after grading the work and returning it to the student in the classroom, the teacher has a copy of this work on his disk? After handing it in, the student becomes the owner of the file and can even delete the file. According...

pawelb by New Contributor II
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DLP - Drive Document Access

I'm having a hard time finding a "correct" way to tackle this: We use DLP for various things here in Google Workspace, and I'll get notifications from time to time related to this.  The thing is, if I get notification it's saying who the file owner/s...

Justin_W by Contributor II
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Problematic students and malicious intents

I am looking for suggestions as I'm sure basically every K12 administrator has their share of students who have malicious intents.  I found a user recently who has been trying to use Parrotsec, Kali, and Tails (that I'm aware of).  This student utili...

dhalvorsen by New Contributor II
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Resolved! Student using an HTML file to play Minecraft/Eaglercraft

I have a student somehow launching a downloaded HTML file on his chromebook to open up some sort of Minecraft game type of environment.  I am not even sure how this thing loads and works, but more importantly, how to prevent something like this.I wis...

ddelboccio by Contributor III
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Assigning Minecraft Licenses

 Wondering if anyone has set up automated Minecraft license assigning? We have our Google Workspace set up as IdP for Microsoft Entra (which works fine) and students (and staff) can login to Microsoft using their Google Accounts. Any student that has...

Olger by New Contributor III
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[Question] turn off google authenticator sync

Does having a user turn off the "sync with google account" in Google Authenticator remove the codes from that device?We just implemented/changed to the new SAML Profile that Google is recommending which apparently signs people out (happened to myself...

Resolved! [Question] User name fields

We have instances of deadnames coming back when we use GCDS. We're wondering how we can sync the following properly so that the persons deadname does not come back while using GCDS to sync attributes:first name (ad=givenName)last name (ad=sn)display ...

Resolved! Edu on Air:K12 registration restriction

What do I need to adjust in the Admin Console to enable my ability to register for Edu on Air:K12? Every time I attempt to register for sessions, I get the message below stating that there is a policy restriction. I am at a loss since my account has ...

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New Phishing Scheme

I have yet to see this in our environment but wanted to share.Phishers Exploit Google Sites and DKIM Replay to Send Signed Emails, Steal Credentialshttps://thehackernews.com/2025/04/phishers-exploit-google-sites-and-dkim.html

External Files Shared to Students

So I've just discovered that while we have emails from external sources, outside of a small whitelist, going to our students blocked evidently shared files will potentially breeze right past that. One, the share email will go right through because th...

MattDPenn by Contributor II
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Blocking Access and Emails from Certain Countries

Greetings all,We're starting to see an uptick in phishing attempts and we know the ip address of some of the attempts are coming directly from a certain country (coughrussiacough). Is pretty much all I can do is block the ip ranges associated with th...

MattDPenn by Contributor II
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available chrome license count

I used to be able to see how many available chrome device management licenses I had available to work with my devices.  However, I cannot seem to remember (figure out) where to find this in the admin console anymore.I have a few Windows workstations ...

Chrome device custom attributes

Hello,I'm surprised to find that custom device attributes, similar to the custom user attributes available in Google Workspace, are not supported for Chrome devices. We require fields such as purchase order number, warranty information, device color,...

sampapa by New Contributor III
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allow user to transfer ownership of files and folders

when I try to follow these instructions, there is no transfer ownership option.  Do I have to enable something in the Admin console? https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2494892?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktopChange owners in Google DriveImporta...

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panderson by Contributor III
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GAM7 print gal todrive error message

Hi, I just upgraded to GAM7 and everything seemed to work, but when I tried to run "gam print gal to drive" I get this error message:Temporary error: 3 - Connection error: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: Missing Authority ...

panderson by Contributor III
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Google Classroom Ownership Transfer Stuck

We attempted to transfer the ownership of some Google Classrooms after unsuspending the owner's account...then re-suspending it.It seems that the ownership transfer process is now stuck.Command 1:gam user USER-HERE accept classroominvitations ids ID-...

Protecting Accounts for young learners

This is related to this post: https://www.googleforeducommunity.com/t5/Discussion/Context-Aware-Access-to-User-Account/td-p/140696We're a K12 school, and I'm keen to learn how others protect accounts for the early learners (Prep to Year 3 mostly). I ...

Olger by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Context Aware Access to User Account

I'm hoping someone knows the secret switch that makes this happen.We've implemented Context Aware Access (CAA) for a number of accounts, mostly to restrict usage to on-campus only. We've set up a CAA rule and applied the rule to all apps in OU's that...

Olger by New Contributor III
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(Limited) integration between Workspace accounts

I'm looking for integration / collaboration options between 2 Workspace accounts. The organizations in question are closely related and share facilities, but there is no plan to merge/migrate the organizations or their respective Workspace accounts. ...

Ron by New Contributor II
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2FA Keys Ceasing to Work on Chromebook?

Greetings all,I'm curious whether anyone has had issues with a 2FA key ceasing to work on one device yet working on others? In this instance I had one, and now possibly two, GoTrust Idem keys seemingly not working consistently with chromebooks (HP 11...

MattDPenn by Contributor II
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