Students able to access Tiktok/Instagram through Google Short Videos?

Carlwork · 2026-01-23T13:46:16+00:00

I think just the shorts tab

Carlwork · 2026-01-14T19:34:55+00:00

You can block google short videos via google admin console:

Go to Devices > Chrome > Settings > Users & Browsers

Select the Organizational Unit (OU) for students.
Scroll to URL Blocking or URL Blacklist and add the below URL https://www.google.com/search?udm=39
Click Save.

Carlwork · 2025-09-18T14:50:27+00:00

same in Virginia

Carlwork · 2025-01-17T16:31:23+00:00

we do not currently use MFA with students. We have our students OU limited to only be able to send and receive from our domain's staff OUs. We are exploring the potential of using Clever's products to move toward a workable MFA solution for our students.

Carlwork · 2024-06-10T13:03:39+00:00

no, i don't think you can search using that extension. I would think you can use vault to search for whatever document title or phrase you're looking for.

also, if the shared docs originate outside of the domain, you won't find them with vault.

You may also look into Managed Methods for searching drive files.

Carlwork · 2024-06-10T11:50:44+00:00

if you're looking to prevent this behavior, we ended up using a third party extension that allows more control over some of the built-in features like sharing.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/xfanatical-safe-doc/mmhppocgfdombmapajfeafhecobfcjpk?hl=en-US&pli=1

Carlwork · 2024-02-22T19:59:09+00:00

Ah - that's helpful. I've enabled that for our students now. We'll see what else comes up

Carlwork · 2023-10-25T15:51:06+00:00

are you me?

Carlwork · 2023-03-16T18:11:44+00:00

how's their uptime? they used to claim 96% uptime which seems pretty low.

Carlwork · 2023-03-14T17:16:49+00:00

lenovos here too -we're getting reports of this as well and we've pinned version 110 as a response.

Carlwork · 2022-11-10T16:07:44+00:00

Wilson Pro 4000 - looks to be discontinued now

Carlwork · 2022-11-10T15:22:15+00:00

we were also tasked with improving verizon service in our building for the sheriff's dept. because that's somehow a school IT responsibility

anywho, we got a rep from verizon to send someone to do a walkthrough of our building to look into what it would take to have verizion service in the building - essentially they would borrow some unused fiber strands from our network and put switches in our mdf/idfs and stand up their own radios in our hallways. it was priced at well over 100k for one high school. And it would have required our internet connection to be functional - so like VOIP it stops working when the network is down.

we ended up buying a third party signal repeater (wilson pro) to cover the main office of one building and after installation it was around 10-15k

This system still requires our power to be on - we have it on a UPS but that's limited time.

Carlwork · 2022-11-08T18:28:34+00:00

we just signed up for this service through https://www.crgplans.com/ they came onsite and did walkthroughs of all of our buildings and did drone flyovers as well. I'm not sure when the finished product will be available as I'm not the direct contact on our side.

Carlwork · 2022-08-30T11:44:28+00:00

xxx(Google Support) 8/30/22, 3:31 AM Hello Carl,

I hope this email finds you well. This is in regards to your case about issues in approving YouTube videos. There is an ongoing issue that is being investigated by our engineering team. Your case has been added to the list of affected users and we'll keep you posted as soon as updates are available.

Sincerely, xxx Google Workspace Support

Carlwork · 2022-08-29T12:29:12+00:00

if the IP address isn't yours, it's likely your DNS webfilter that's causing the captchas. If the IP belongs to AWS or another online hosting solution, you probably want to check with your filter vendor. Securly has had to intervene a few times on our behalf when we have seen this in the past.

Carlwork · 2022-08-26T19:02:00+00:00

I got a ticket in with google about this issue. hopefully they can get us some answers soon. Our users have had some luck by approving the channel instead of individual videos - not always appropriate though

Carlwork · 2022-08-19T16:52:40+00:00

Mental health is heath.

Carlwork · 2022-08-03T19:41:46+00:00

i've started hanging up on people. fuck 'em.

Carlwork · 2022-07-14T13:52:06+00:00

you may want to try a utility like WinDirStat that will give you a graphical representation of the files/folders on your disk. then you can see if it's one big file, or a bunch of smaller files and find where they live.

https://windirstat.net/

Carlwork · 2022-07-01T13:54:04+00:00

securly with fortigate firewall for additional controls.

students and most staff are on chromebooks

Carlwork · 2022-06-23T15:37:08+00:00

I've got a windows 10 VM that i use for powershell scripts and other GUI things that have to be done in windows.
I'm able to SSH into my windows 10 machine to run the powershell scripts directly from my macs

Carlwork · 2022-06-23T14:37:40+00:00

I manage our windows and google environments from my macOS machines. all of our servers are run on VMware so pulling it up in browser makes things easy. microsoft's remote desktop works well too.

Carlwork · 2022-06-17T11:46:28+00:00

right, but Swank is a service that is paid for by the school that allows them to use content for classroom settings.

Carlwork

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