How to block youtube on chromebooks

[mrstrong]

Hi,

 

some students have their own chromebook and sign in with their g suite user account.

 

I've put these users in their own OU and disabled the youtube service for this OU as per

https://support.google.com/a/answer/6304948?hl=en

 

But youtube still works for them. I've noticed once they log in to their chrome book and go to

e.g. https://docs.google.com

they are automatically "signed in" to their account , e.g. can see their docs etc

but if they type

https://www.youtube.com/

it loads the page and there is a button top right saying "sign in".

 

I'd assumed once they logged in to the chromebook that was it but it looks like there is

also a seperate login needed for the chrome browser e.g. for youtube but not for docs / drive etc ?

 

Can someone explain what's going on here and how best to block youtube on chromebooks!

 

PS just found a force sign in policy https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7572556?hl=en

but that appears to be only for windows / mac.

[bald_pig]

If I'm not mistaken, that just restricts the ability to log in to youtube with their account, you need to use your web filter to block youtube for students.

[j224]

Try- https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7532419?hl=en

 

Step 2 ----> Admin console

[mrstrong]

Thanks j224, not seen that blacklist urls settings

 

Bald_pig, I think you are correct, as from reading https://support.google.com/a/answer/1668854?hl=en

It says

Google doesn’t maintain a list of blocked services. If a particular service requires sign-in, access gets blocked. Services that don’t require authentication, such as Google Search and YouTube, won’t be blocked.

 

I think the best way is to use the web filter but thats seems to be giving me issues too. I'll post a separate thread about that