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We've been asked to block AI focused mode in Google and were struggling to find a way since Netsweeper doesn't allow it to be blocked, it doesn't seem to be able to block UDM 50. We've also tried blocking Gemini completely. Has anyone been able to find a way to block it?

⭐ Vertical tabs have finally arrived in Google Chrome! 👀 I've been using the Arc and Zen browsers for a while now and I found the vertical tabs feature really cool. Whilst Google Chrome isn't my main brownser, it's great to see it now available as an option in Google Chrome, especially for those times when I have to use it! 🥳 To enable this feature straight away: 1️⃣ Make sure your version of Google Chrome is up to date 2️⃣ Browse to chrome://flags 3️⃣ Search for Vertical Tabs 4️⃣ Set to Enabled 5️⃣ Relaunch Google Chrome 6️⃣ Right click on the tab bar 7️⃣ Select "Move tabs to the side" ⬅️ You can also collapse the tab bar for a minimal look and view more of the webpage.

Hey all! Hope you're keeping well. I’m interested to know what other schools using ChromeOS do for their classroom setup, specifically for teachers. Currently, each teacher desktop has two monitors and an interactive display at the front of the room. The primary monitor is duplicated to the interactive display (touch is used occasionally), and the second monitor is extended. We’re moving more and more towards ChromeOS, but I’m not convinced it will work as well as our current setup. From what I understand, ChromeOS display arrangements are a bit “all or nothing”. I’d be really interested to hear how other schools are handling this. Thanks 🙂

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Hi All One of the benefits of being a Google For Education Partner is the ability to provide Chrome Management licences to unlock the full potential of Chromebook deployments in Education. As some of you have already capitalised on, Google had a promo running from 11th Jan - 31st March to provide a free 1 day workshop to any new customer ordering 20+ CDM licences. This has now been extended for Q2 Delivered at your site, this truly is a great value add for any school wishing to learn more about the benefits Google Apps and Chromebooks can offer. More info on our site Free Google Workshop Offer Requirements to qualify: • Transformational Planning Workshop incentive is only available for new customers who purchase 20+ Chrome management or 20+ Google Play for Education licenses from a Google authorised education reseller. • Only purchases from schools, academies, colleges or universities that have not bought Chromebook management licences or Play for Education licences previously will be entitled to this free workshop incentive. • Chromebook management licence or Play for Education licence orders must be confirmed by Google between 11th January and 31st March 2016 to qualify. • The Transformational Planning Workshop for your school must be scheduled to take place within 3 months of the confirmation from Google of your eligible Chromebook management licence or Play for Education licence order and no later than the 30th June 2016. • The promotion is only open to educational institutes in the UK. PM us for more details, speak to your account manager or contact us via the website for more information and we can share the full offer document via drive.

Morning all! New to EduGeek. I wondered if anyone has recently been successful at blocking google search query games like: Snake, Pacman...etc I can't just block the search query for "snake", plus no matter how you type snake, it will give you the game to play on a desktop or mobile/tablet. Using Lightspeed Filtering & Sonicwall Firewall... Not sure what to do!

We use iSAMS - Cloud based. When iSAMS sends messages it pretends to originate from our domain. When using the Gmail app we get warnings: Be careful with this message . This message has a 'from' address in but has failed 's required tests for authentication. The sending IP address has been whitelisted. Any solutions? Thank you, Wouter

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Hello, I'm trying to find a current MSI file for chrome so that I can create a package and push it out over CC4. There's got to be an easier way surely? the last time chrome was pushed out through MSI was version 75.0.3770.100.0 - is there a way of creating a package that auto-updates or is that wishful thinking? Worst case scenario where can I find an MSI file now for Chrome as it seems to push to an application file or to Chrome enterprise, which I am also curious as to how that would work with cc4? Any help would be appreciated greatly as I fear I am going insane lol.

Hello Everyone, We are currently in the process of having a brand new 160 place special school built for us. This will see us build a brand new network as we currently piggy back of a secondary school we are sharing a site with running a RM CC4 network. We have our own SIMS server but and O365 but as this will be a completely new network we are exploring all our options particularly moving towards cloud. We have explored going the Google route etc but want to know if you had the opportunity to have a brand new from the ground up network what would you do. We have already explored a number of local schools who have said Google intrigues them but we want to make informed decisions so are looking at everything from Hybrid Cloud to Google maybe even changing MIS. Happy to have phone calls arranged etc.

Hello, I was wondering if anyone is currently backing SIMS, network drives etc to Google drive taking advantage of the unlimited education storage? If so, what are you using? I looked at Cloudberry but they appear to have stopped this now for some reason. Using Google drive as a backup solution, is this breaking any T&C? After watching Linus video it doesn't appear to be? Regards

Hi, We are a GAFE school and recently moved away from RM to Vanilla, but one of the things I am unable to get my head around at the moment is getting Staff and Students to automatically sign into their Google accounts. The Google password sync is working ok, so password changes in AD apply to google email password. I had a brief foray into researching this but, from what I can see, the hoops I would have to jump through would only work on Chrome devices and not Windows 10 desktops etc anyway. As Staff and Students here have their homepages set to our internal sites.google.com/*user*-internal pages, they are being asked (rightly) to login (which is causing issues when they choose not to). Previously on the RM system, both staff and students just got their respective homepage without having to manually sign in, so there must be a way or a plugin I am not aware of. Would anyone have any clues, pointers or, even better, - a guide on how to achieve this? As we went Vanilla to save on support costs with RM, we are loathe to have to pay for a third party tool to do this... Many thanks in advance

Hi, So we've been having this problem where if a staff member is logged onto their classroom machine and has chrome open, they then cannot open chrome on their laptop or another machine. We have to close the first session so they can continue. Has any one else experienced this? I've brought it up with support but they say its a chrome issue. We are running CC4 over windows server 2012r2. Thanks.

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Hi All, I've been trying to trawl through the internet for solutions on an issue we have. We need to disable Omnibox searching and only use it for URLS. Is that possible at all? Thanks, Adam

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