I've been asked if we can enable some way of staff resetting their own passwords if they have forgotten them vs them calling in. You know like most other systems they can setup recover questions or etc. I found a setting under Security/Account recove...
Just wanted to highlight this update from @claycodes in the News section. There was also a webinar shared yesterday (2/27/25) which can be viewed on-demand here. Driving the announcement was a webinar titled “The Google AI Advantage: Powering end-u...
We've been getting this more and more lately. It affects us in particular when someone embeds a YouTube Video into a slide deck or Google Site, and then tries to play it. It will say that they need to sign in, even though they most definitely are ...
In the last two weeks, something has changed with YouTube. Teachers now are unable to play and view a video in YouTube. When we click on the play button we get this message: "Video unavailable This content isn’t available."If we paste the URL into ...
How do I resolve this error? Emails to students from parents, teachers, colleges, etc. are getting blocked with the error shown below. How do I resolve this issue?Thank you!!
I'm looking for an outside perspective on an issue we've been having and wondering if there is something I'm missing in troubleshooting this. We have a student whose over the past year reported their chromebook disconnecting from the wifi almost alwa...
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https://youtu.be/Q3b5NB-7HQQ?t=172528:4534:21 "high stakes testing stack"Found this top option as I was approving an extension in Google Workspace...
Dear Brodie McBeath, @Brodie_McBeath Congratulations on being recognized as the Google Education Admin Group member who has given the most kudos this month (January)! Your support and encouragement help create a positive and engaging community where...
Just sharing....Google will be hosting a session (Friday, 28 February · 2:00 – 2:45pm EST) to review:(1) Requirement to re-confirm access to Google Additional Services for users under 18, and(2) Updates to Education Fundamentals licensing and added l...
I find it interesting that Google wants to move away from SMS and instead use QR Codes for authentication. However, Clever has been providing users with unique QR codes for security. https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/02/23/google-confirms...
Are the Google Docs citations not working?Typically, my teacher would use the Citations tool within a Google doc to insert a website citation source.The normal process of clicking on TOOLS, CITATIONS, ADD CITATION SOURCE, source type WEBSITE, accesse...
It is unclear what is actually going away.Also, why?Is nobody interested in Apps Usage and Accounts reports?Or is it only a poorly worded email, and what they mean is that they will all (?) be found in the Investigation Tool, and not be seen in the l...
Pardon the literal screenshots from someone on my staff These seem like aggressive permissions to be asked from Teacher Pay Teacher and SeeSaw. Does anyone have any insight? Should I advise this teacher to not allow this? She found a workaround for S...
Hi Technology Leaders, Google’s User Research team would like your feedback on a potential new page within Google Admin Console. If you are interested in sharing insights, please fill out this form. Thank you! Sheethal Shobowale, on behalf of the Go...
Dear Justin W, @Justin_W Congratulations on being recognized as the Google Education Admin Group (GAEG) member with the most reply posts this month (January). Your willingness to share insights, answer questions, and contribute to discussions is w...
Hello. Anyone using the OrbitNote extension on student chromebooks?Apparently, there is a setting that should be enabled by default for this extension that is not. It is called "Open Web PDF's":This setting is accessible via an "options" menu of th...
So in Google classroom teachers can add the guardian and I guess it emailes them somehting. Status, grades etc. So I have 1 parent claiming the emails she is getting are blank. These emails are not trackable in the investigation tool so I cannot see ...
Hi Everyone,We have had a query from a parent and I'm having a little bit of trouble tracking down the answer.We have just gone with BYOD Chromebooks across many of our schools this year. We are enrolling each student's chromebook as they bring them ...
If you have Plus licenses, you no longer have to invest in a separate service for eSignature on PDFs.You can send a request for eSignature to any email. The recipient/signer does not need a Google account.https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/...
Hi all: We just got the following notice from Google. Apparently Takeout Transfer was broken last summer (right during the time so many of us were trying to reduce storage), resulting in incomplete transfers. In the case of UC Berkeley, it affected ...
[Resending this invitation to participate in survey research to improve the state of K12 content and filtering.] Dear Senior Leaders, Google is partnering with third-party vendor Hanover Research on a survey project to better understand the perspecti...
Has anyone had success delegating a mailbox to a group?I thought it was possible based on this....but attempting togam user sharethis@domain.com delegate to grouphere@domain.comresults in Add Failed: Invalid delegate
One of our users reported that they were unable to get to the password reset page on Texas's Cambium assessment system. They get the Chrome block page that says "Your Organization doesn't allow you to view this site" which typically only appears if a...
Curious if anyone is hearing any type of feedback if Google has any intention to offer a more cost effective Gemini for Workspace option for students (13+)? We have a small amount of paid Gemini Education licenses for testing Workspace integration wi...
Well that's....detailedhttps://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2025/02/google-vault-now-supports-gemini.html
This morning we heard from a number of Windows users about problems with printing and print preview.Steps to reproduce problem:When printing webpages that use text-shadow (such as Genesis and Frontline), the print preview often loads very slowly, fai...
Greetings all,I wanted to get a sanity check. Is there a way to get more information about when a specific user logged into a given chromebook than the Recent Users field of a device? We have a student who is trying to avoid filters placed on them by...
Hello All,I have a question about us moving our desktop computers from windows 10 to windows 11 and keeping Copilot active. Our teachers use Desktop computers (win10) which we will be moving them to (Win11) this summer. The question comes up with ...
Hi all:We're expanding our team here at UC Berkeley! We've got two jobs open on the Email & Collaboration Services team that I'm a member of. Please apply/please share with anyone who might be interested, and let me know if you have any questions.Sys...
