A teacher at our K–8 school recently brought an issue to my attention that I think raises an important question about AI in education.She is teaching students how to conduct research, evaluate sources, and find reliable information online. However, w...
For users that are signing into the chrome browser or a chrome OS device for the first time, users are unable to view the "Waffle" as the normally would. It displays "Sign in to arrange apps" and when clicked, gives a 400 error with the url of: ...
Not sure where to drop this, but it would be amazingly helpful to have a PO Number field to assist with asset management.
We are having an issue with students unable to login to a secondary google account through our community college, On our chromebooks, I did not have any issues last year. It brings up a window saying "chrome-signin is blocked. Your organization doesn...
I recently bought ChromeOS Education upgrade licenses, but I can't figure out how to apply them to my organization. I have confirmation of delivery and purchase, but I don't see them anywhere on google admin. None of the google support articles were ...
Cara Community,oggi in Emilia-Romagna in Italia suona la prima campanella dell'Anno Scolastico 2026/2027: buon rientro a tutti! Sappiamo bene che l'inizio dell'anno porta con sé una montagna di sfide legate alla gestione digitale della scuola: la con...
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...
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...
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.
AI mode is blocked by our filter but students still get AI overview any time they search.
There's a lot going on in this announcement!https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/google-unveils-googlebooks-a-new-line-of-ai-native-laptops/
There are presently no easily configurable, admin console controls to prevent students from opening multiple desks (desktops) in Chrome. We would welcome a change as it would prevent students from being off task and quickly concealing their tracks wi...
All our other devices can connect fine but some chromebooks, just won't let you get on to the Wi-Fi unless you try login using the guest account. We use smoothwall at our school with unifi aps but I don't think this is the problem.
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...
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 ...
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.
We use a whitelisting only method for student web browsing at my campus. And this has been great to truly restrict some student OUs.HOWEVER, the students have figured out if they Google Search "minecraft" or "pacman," these games will play atop the G...
Have you heard rumors that ChromeOS is moving to Android?Over on LinkedIN I make the case for some clarityhttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chromeos-moving-android-bill-gibson-0vqie/?trackingId=WRCvZMKQsdAb4jKpH8yP0w%3D%3DIMO a public post would be best...
I have purchased some HP Fortis 14 G11 Chromebooks with Chrome Education Upgrade bundled from CDW. How do I access this license in my admin workspace? Should it be automatically listed in my Google Device console?
Greetings all,I'm curious whether anyone has noticed weirdness with their document cameras, or any cameras for that matter, on ChromeOS since 12/4/25? In our case we've been using various doc cams with IPEVO's Visualizer via their web URL but it stop...
We are looking forward to welcoming you to our December event for ANZ Google admins.If you know if colleagues who should be at the events please let us know !See you online or in person soon ; Auckland - Monday Dec 1, Sydney - Thursday Dec 18Steve
Chrome is getting native Vertical Tabs: and you can try them right now in Canary https://share.google/5LqOkA4zTeOkB5Cuz
Anyone having chromebook issues this morning most of ours are just spinning at the login screen
Hello Everyone!This is the first time we are using Chromebooks at our school.Our Chromebooks are correctly enrolled in the Google Admin Console and show the proper provisioning status.We also have the Chrome Upgrade license. However, when we start a ...
Scratching my head, trying to help a colleague, who has two different students, where when they log into their respective Chromebooks the keyboard doesn't work.Keyboard works fine if the teacher logs in.Teacher tested removing the students' user prof...
They may have fixed the Chromebook MFA issue but now for our users using Chrome on Windows or Macs are not getting the policy for soem of the force deployed extensions we deploy. Anyone else seeing this?
Apparently there's an ongoing issue with logging in via SSO on ChromeOS devices.The status page hasn't been updated since yesterday evening.https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/B6TDyZ3a2dhAg59QcpZE
Received the below e-mail:Hello ChromeOS Developer,We're sending this communication to inform you of important changes coming to ChromeOS. Starting July 2025, Chrome App support will be phased out in stages and reach end of life in October 2028.We un...
Who is this for? If you are an IT Admin who manages Chromebooks for schools or districts in the U.S., Canada, or Europe then you are invited to participate in the ChromeOS Customer Advisory Panel. Background: Google’s Chromebook Product and User E...
We have recently gone to only allow extensions that we have approved. It seems that it also blocks the ability for users to use the Themes in the Chrome Webstore without us going in and approving each individual theme, is there any way to approve c...
