Adding ScratchJr to Chromebooks

[Jobos]

I'm stuck trying to install ScratchJr on our Chromebooks. I have added the app under my test OU using Devices>Chrome>Apps & Extensions>Users & Browsers, add from google play and set it to force install + pin to chromeOS taskbar but it is not installing.

 

Looking on a Chromebook chrome://policy I see ExtensionInstallBlockList has "*" and ExtensionInstallAllowList has other apps we use but I cannot find ExtensionInstallAllowList in Google Admin as was thinking I may need to add it to the allow list.

 

Any advice how to fix this?

 

Thanks.

[Alis_Klar]

ScatchJr is a Android app so you need to enable the play store (you can restrict it so only apps you specify can be installed, no free for all)

https://support.google.com/search?q=workspace+enable+full+access+to+google+play+for+edu+users

 

Also your Chromebook devices need to be compatible with Google Play store (pre 2019 devices are listed here https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-supporting-android-apps/)

[Nblakey96]

This is how we currently do it, if you find your chromebooks aren't compatible with the Google Play store an alternative could be to use the URL https://codejr.org/scratchjr/index.html

 

 

ScatchJr is a Android app so you need to enable the play store (you can restrict it so only apps you specify can be installed, no free for all)

https://support.google.com/search?q=workspace+enable+full+access+to+google+play+for+edu+users

 

Also your Chromebook devices need to be compatible with Google Play store (pre 2019 devices are listed here https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-supporting-android-apps/)

[Alis_Klar]

This is how we currently do it, if you find your Chromebooks aren't compatible with the Google Play store an alternative could be to use the URL https://codejr.org/scratchjr/index.html

 

Cool! Glad to hear they've made a web version.

[TwistedHelixis]

Also, make sure you have added the app to your user OU, not your Chromebook device OU.

[Jobos]

ScatchJr is a Android app so you need to enable the play store (you can restrict it so only apps you specify can be installed, no free for all)

https://support.google.com/search?q=workspace+enable+full+access+to+google+play+for+edu+users

 

Also your Chromebook devices need to be compatible with Google Play store (pre 2019 devices are listed here https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-supporting-android-apps/)

 

We have 3 different models of Chromebook and I was testing with the only model that doesn't work with the Google Play Store. When I looked at the other 2 models they had installed app fine.

 

 

This is how we currently do it, if you find your chromebooks aren't compatible with the Google Play store an alternative could be to use the URL https://codejr.org/scratchjr/index.html

 

To ensure all Chromebooks work with ScratchJr I removed the app and added the link to the bookmark folder so they all use the same version.

 

Also, make sure you have added the app to your user OU, not your Chromebook device OU.

 

Yes I spotted that but thanks for pointing it out.