Google Admin & Calendar - Disable/block students from making Calendar appointments with each other

[DeGrimmy]

Hi all,

 

We have had some students discover that they can book appointments with each other on Google Calendar. This has led to them spamming email invitations to meetings/appointments to other students. We have already set up an email quarantine so that these emails don't make it to the students' inboxes, but I'd prefer to deal with the root cause itself.

 

I've been unable to find any settings in Google Admin that blocks "Booking pages" on Google Calendar. The setting for "Internal sharing options for primary calendars" is already turned off in Apps > Calendar > Sharing settings, but this doesn't appear to affect this. It looks like anything to do with appointment settings, sharing and availability is all handled individually on the account. We've also found out that while they are unable to view other students' calendars, they are able to "Schedule 1:1" from the contact card in anything Google:

 

Doing a quick Google search, Google's answer to this issue is to disable Calendar outright for students in Google Admin, which is certainly not the solution I was looking for, especially since I know that some students use Google Calendar to view their timetable. There doesn't even seem to be an option to stop users from creating events in Calendar. Has anyone else experienced this and can anyone point me in the right direction please? Am I just being stupid?

Thanks in advance!

 

 

[aydee]

Hi All,

Bumping this to see if anyone else is having their students do the same thing?

They have now discovered that they can see any staff members calendar by using this funcionality too!

We have turned off Google Calendar int he meantime but unsure of where to go from here; so any help is really appreciated.