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Trust Rules - External sites.google.com Access

Hi all.  I am looking for some clarity on how Google handles access to external Google Sites.  The goal is to provide external viewing access to our student OU only when absolutely required, but I'm having some difficulty.  Here's what I think I know...

DLP - or equivalent alerting/blocking

Hey all.I've seen headlines on the built-in DLP setting previously and even dabbled a bit in the pre-made templates. But I recently was looking to add some additional safety/security into our environment.  I thought I was going to find what I wanted ...

Justin_W by Contributor II
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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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Resolved! Ask Gemini missing as of 9/11/2026 - anyone else?

We've been happily using Ask Gemini and GenAI within Chrome for several weeks if not a few months. As of 9/11/2026 the Ask Gemini button is gone, and by default apparently the chrome://policy and //flags was blocked by Google (I had to enable that ju...

Google Gemini PII Protection

On a call today with my district tech leadership and they are VERY concerned about PII and student data with Gemini. Is there a guide or go-to place or person to address these questions? Ideally, we'd love a person or place to submit these questions.

U.S. Feedback Request for Google Research

Hi there,   My name is Sheethal Shobowale, a UX researcher on the Google for Education team.  I am interested in speaking with US IT Admins working in K12 schools who manage Google Workspace account permissions and/or digital policies.   If you are i...

Kristal by Community Manager
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Google Admin (H)ELP Series

Da qualche mese il Circolo ELP IT Admin del Centro Italia sta producendo (inizialmente con i Facilitators ma da settembre anche con altri membri del Circolo) dei video di supporto per gli amministratori di Google Workspace delle scuole d'Italia.La pl...

Extornado by New Contributor II
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Gopher for Chrome- Worth it?

I'm doing a lot of device and user cleanup this summer, and Gopher would really help me move faster and at scale. Does anyone have pricing or privacy info on this tool? Anecdotes welcome too. 

How about NotebookLM Being Shared Outside Domain

NotebookLM notebooks still can't be shared outside the domain. Google Workspace came through recently by letting us manually delete Gemini chats, so I'm really hoping they hear us on this too! We need an Admin Console setting to manage NotebookLM sha...

anderson by Contributor
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Vault: Gemini

Happy to see that Gemini chats are being included in Vault.Note that the only choices are indefinitely, and  delete ALL conversations. This misaligns this service's setting with how we choose to implement the other services which is to Purge only del...

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Google Worskpace Heard My Prayers, Thanks a lot!

I've received the Google Workspace Updates email merge about the updated that I was looking forward to receiving. Now, Admins can now configure whether users can use temporary chats and delete their conversation history. Temporary chats allows users ...

anderson by Contributor
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Resolved! Graduation banner in Gmail for staff..

This is a first for me. I know sometimes a personal gmail has ads in it's gmail inbox, but this is new to me. We're higher ed and so I'm curious where this banner message setting is set? We don't really use Classroom, and the user who brought this to...

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Request for the EDU Team - Youtube

I posted a few weeks ago about the issue we are having with Youtube. Hopefully someone from the EDU team sees this but we (admins) really need a more effective way of controlling Youtube. Right now (in my district) we're using a combination of Google...

kcalderw by Contributor
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Workspace Report: Chromebook Powerwash / Enroll / De-Enroll

This is one of those things that I feel should be “simple” but I’ve been banging my head against the wall here trying to get it sorted. And Gemini has been acting crazy giving me all sorts of wrong (mostly non-existent) solutions. I’m just trying to ...

Justin_W by Contributor II
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ELP Admin Community Emilia Romagna v4.0!!!!!!!!!

Grandi novità per la community degli Amministratori di Google Workspace for Education! Abbiamo appena rilasciato la versione 4.0 del nostro portale ELP munity Emilia-Romagna. Abbiamo lavorato duramente per fornirvi uno strumento che semplifichi davv...

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ระบบ Google Workspace for Education ถูกระงับการใช้งานโดยอัตโนมัติ

ในประเทศของฉัน มีหลายโรงเรียน ระบบ Google Workspace for Education ถูกระงับการใช้งานโดยอัตโนมัติ เหตุผลเพราะ ส่งอีเมลสแปม ฉันได้พยายามติดต่อ พาร์ทเนอร์แต่ก็ไม่สามารถช่วยกู้คืนระบบได้ และได้ติดต่อทาง Google Support ก็ไม่สามารถกู้คืนระบบให้เช่นกัน  ตอนน...

adisak by New Contributor
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Break Glass Account

We have a special "Break Glass" account for our MS Tennant I am wondering if any has created a similar account for Google Admin

mw_slocoe by New Contributor II
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Fun with YouTube settings

Has anyone successfully come up with a method of only allowing videos that teachers put in Classroom? We sort of have it working now but it's a combination of settings in the admin panel and our web filter. Also, the option for them to only see video...

kcalderw by Contributor
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Resolved! Email Auto Deleteion

We are looking to implement a policy to auto delete email after a certain date. I would like to test the policy but it appears that it can only be implemented at the domain level. Is anyone using this feature and is it possible to be set at an OU lev...

mw_slocoe by New Contributor II
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Extend Updates to OLD Chromebooks before state testing

Just a friendly reminder to my Google Admin friends that you must OPT in to extend updates to older Chromebooks. We discovered this misstep the week before standardized testing because several of our chromebooks wouldn't update. Totally forgot that w...

Beta del Sito Web Hub per gli Admin Italiani

https://er.elpadmin.comSito web ufficiale ELP Admin Community Emilia Romagna (Italy)Come Google Education Leader Program Facilitator e Super Admin Google Workspace che gestisce quotidianamente diverse piattaforme, so bene quanto sia sfidante per noi ...

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Best tool for who is logging into what Chromebook?

What is the the best way to get a list of what users are logging into what Chromebooks across the entire organization My assigned inventory is outdated and I am looking to get a easy to read list on who is logging into what Chromebook. 

mfoley by New Contributor III
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ELP Admin Community Emilia Romagna (Italia)

Il nuovo sito-hub ELP Admin Emilia-Romagna è online https://sites.google.com/view/epl-erPer guidare l'innovazione tecnologica nelle scuole, la frammentazione è il nemico. L'efficienza operativa richiede un punto di convergenza unico. Come Facilitato...