Access Students Google Drive

[FN-GM]

Hi,

 

Is there a way as a Google Apps admin to access other peoples Google Drive areas please? The only way I can think of at the moment is to reset the password.

 

Thanks

[TechieWils]

Google Vault and then search for the student. Works for their emails as well. If you need extra info let me know.

[FN-GM]

Thanks,

 

Is there a way to put stuff in the drive please? And Also a way to keep the structure in tact?

 

Thanks again.

[edmokeski]

Try GAM?

https://github.com/jay0lee/GAM

[rogerdnixon]

This is what Google Classroom is for. You can fire out resources to your class. Classroom organises everything is Drive for the student. There are other more sophisticated solutions such as Hapara Teacher Dashboard which creates subjects folder for each student , shared with the teacher. The teacher dashboard allows you to fire files into the student's subject folders (either by group, individually or by subgroup).

[TechieWils]

I have read you can set up an admin folder in Drive and share it with people so you have control over the structure and they can just add files from there. A little like drive mapping you give students access to the places they need.

 

As for going into their drive and adding files I'm not sure its possible on its own.

[FN-GM]

This is what Google Classroom is for. You can fire out resources to your class. Classroom organises everything is Drive for the student. There are other more sophisticated solutions such as Hapara Teacher Dashboard which creates subjects folder for each student , shared with the teacher. The teacher dashboard allows you to fire files into the student's subject folders (either by group, individually or by subgroup).

 

Students are not likely to put item they shouldn't have. Plus It doesn't allow us to upload stuff to people drive.

 

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I have read you can set up an admin folder in Drive and share it with people so you have control over the structure and they can just add files from there. A little like drive mapping you give students access to the places they need.

 

As for going into their drive and adding files I'm not sure its possible on its own.

 

This requires the user to co-operate. Not always easy

[Tesla]

on there account, cog icon > settings > "Filters and Blocked Addresses

 

then under The following filters are applied to all incoming mail:

One of the rules will be

 

"TO:$affected account

Do this: Delete it"

 

delete that rule and you should be good to go

[CyberNerd]

Try GAM?

https://github.com/jay0lee/GAM

 

This is what we use.

Admin can add files to all drives and take ownership from students. works a treat.

[FN-GM]

@edmokeski @CyberNerd - Is it possible to open a users drive using GAM please? If so how do you do it please?

[CyberNerd]

@edmokeski @CyberNerd - Is it possible to open a users drive using GAM please? If so how do you do it please?

 

yes, all the Google API's are open. You can do pretty much anything with the admin account. There are so many options though I couldn't really do GAM justice in a post.

Suffice to say you need to give somebody else permissions on the files, using a script, or download them en masse;

https://github.com/jay0lee/GAM/wiki/GoogleDriveManagement

[FN-GM]

Suffice to say you need to give somebody else permissions on the files, using a script, or download them en masse;

https://github.com/jay0lee/GAM/wiki/GoogleDriveManagement

 

Both of these options are a little but of a disappointment - Thanks anyway.

[CyberNerd]

Both of these options are a little but of a disappointment - Thanks anyway.

 

Either you give someone else access to the files - which it does, or you download them - which it does. What were you after ?

[FN-GM]

Either you give someone else access to the files - which it does, or you download them - which it does. What were you after ?

 

The ultimate goal is the ability to just open up the drive of a user and see it how they see it.

[CyberNerd]

The ultimate goal is the ability to just open up the drive of a user and see it how they see it.

 

Use Vault for this, it works out of the box.

You can also assign teachers admin permissions over the vault to have teachers examine the work too.

 

If you need write access then CLi /API is the way forward. There are probably third party apps that use the api to do this, but for us a simple script is straightforward.

[FN-GM]

I have had a look at vault but it doesn't display how the stuff appears to the student, for example the folder structure.

 

Thanks

[CyberNerd]

I have had a look at vault but it doesn't display how the stuff appears to the student, for example the folder structure.

 

Thanks

 

Folder structure is an abstract concept in the cloud. You can't really think of things in the cloud as being in folders because they do not exist in folders - it's just a database reference. Sometimes with computing applications it's worth unlearning what you have learned. Imagine if your method of searching the web was doing through directories? It just wouldn't work. SEARCH is the key here - it's faster too.

[FN-GM]

Folder structure is an abstract concept in the cloud. You can't really think of things in the cloud as being in folders because they do not exist in folders - it's just a database reference. Sometimes with computing applications it's worth unlearning what you have learned. Imagine if your method of searching the web was doing through directories? It just wouldn't work. SEARCH is the key here - it's faster too.

 

But its a requirement to have a particular folder structure for something we are doing. (I don't make the rules )

[CyberNerd]

But its a requirement to have a particular folder structure for something we are doing. (I don't make the rules )

 

If it's teachers that need access, just give them read access on the students accounts using gam.

[FN-GM]

If it's teachers that need access, just give them read access on the students accounts using gam.

 

Would they appear in the "Shared With Me" when you do that?

 

thanks

[CyberNerd]

Would they appear in the "Shared With Me" when you do that?

 

thanks

 

Yes because all you are doing is overriding the permissions that the student has set using the API. so it would be the same as the student sharing them. The trick is that you need to script it: get a list of all folders

gam.py user [username] show filelist query "mimeType = 'application/vnd.google-apps.folder'"

then feed the result into a script to share it.

[FN-GM]

If it's teachers that need access, just give them read access on the students accounts using gam.

 

Hello,

 

Bit of an old topic I know, but what GAM commands do you use please?