Sheridan Posted April 27 Posted April 27 Anyone found a way to allow google earth (web version) without allowing students to sign into google? It seems blocking the sign in page accounts.google.com stops google earth from working We're a MS school so SLT don't want them signing into other email providers but seems google earth doesn't work with this blocked (even though you're not actually signing in!)
itskdog Posted April 27 Posted April 27 Just opened a new browser profile in Chrome and went to "earth.google.com" and it just took me straight into the app, no sign-in prompt here.
Sheridan Posted April 27 Author Posted April 27 27 minutes ago, itskdog said: Just opened a new browser profile in Chrome and went to "earth.google.com" and it just took me straight into the app, no sign-in prompt here. Yes that's what I see for Staff etc - but because we prevent students from signing into Google (accounts.google.com) it just shows the spinning wheel In the smoothwall logs I can see the block on accounts.google.com so it must try to connect to that before going to google earth
LeMarchand Posted April 27 Posted April 27 2 hours ago, Sheridan said: Anyone found a way to allow google earth (web version) without allowing students to sign into google? It seems blocking the sign in page accounts.google.com stops google earth from working We're a MS school so SLT don't want them signing into other email providers but seems google earth doesn't work with this blocked (even though you're not actually signing in!) You can still have a Google domain that will allow them to sign in but not have mail access. IIRC Earth is one of the apps that needs parental permissions, though.
Sheridan Posted April 27 Author Posted April 27 31 minutes ago, LeMarchand said: You can still have a Google domain that will allow them to sign in but not have mail access. IIRC Earth is one of the apps that needs parental permissions, though. I think its also to stop them customising the home page in chrome etc - used to use the desktop app which worked ok!
LeMarchand Posted April 27 Posted April 27 27 minutes ago, Sheridan said: I think its also to stop them customising the home page in chrome etc - used to use the desktop app which worked ok! You can probably block that, but it's more work for you!
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