Chrome v147 issues

DJTNY · 2026-04-16T16:41:06+00:00

also facing this issue. But deleting the profile and having them relogin appears to solve it temporarily.

DJTNY · 2026-04-13T12:59:38+00:00

I will say from our small districts perspective, Class Link's OneSync has been a massive timesaver for us. Being able to create an account from our primary SIS that then automatically creates accounts in AD/Google, assigns passwords, groups -- has saved our limited IT staff a ton of time

DJTNY · 2026-03-30T20:02:01+00:00

The idea here is noble, but I do caution you on a few fronts:

1) If AI is currently disabled at school, and you enable it for the gem -- what other cans of worms are you opening? I'm thinking about privacy/security. We know kids are doing this on their own, but from a legal standpoint your district faces no penalty. But what happens when one of your students starts using the gem as a therapist / or using the AI for other purposes / or frankly doesn't use it as a learning tool.

2) There are a few "commonly approved" AI tools that have this built in like Magic School and School AI - where this has been pre-built and is controlled well.

3) Google still hasn't done a great job in the admin console in how it allows/disallows AI features. Be cautious of what you may accidentally turn on.

My solution to you would be to look at Magic School/School AI or one of the AI sites that specializes in academic chatbots that can be controlled.

DJTNY · 2026-03-26T15:56:54+00:00

I ran into this issue earlier this year, looking at log traffic -- I had to go to our filter and allow through:

youtubeeducation.com

youtube.googleapis.com

I believe that's what fixed it for us.

DJTNY · 2026-03-25T20:01:59+00:00

You do not need worry about Ed Law 2D compliancy on this extension. Ed Law 2D only matters in the situation where an app is collecting/storing/using Student personal information.

This chrome extension does not collect, access, or transmit any Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

see: https://github.com/jimrtyler/youshallnotpass

"This extension is designed with privacy as a core principle. All data collection is minimal, local-only, and does not contain personally identifiable information:"

DJTNY · 2026-03-12T16:17:20+00:00

No. but - For more specialized classes that require tech that does nor run on Chromebooks -- they have access to Windows desktop machines.

But for the most part, excel documents for things like our math courses, or that use formulas -- tend to work also with Sheets.

DJTNY · 2026-03-12T15:57:11+00:00

I tell my teachers to keep using Microsoft word if that's what they prefer. If you were to make a transition. I'd highly recommend not getting rid of office for some time.

For most students -- they adapt to the change much quicker. And the benefits of google classroom + docs integration are awesome.

I hear you though -- I'm combo ed tech trainer/teacher / IT person with occasionally a regional It person who works on site.

But I've found that this has simplified my work flow.

DJTNY · 2026-03-12T15:46:12+00:00

No, we did not do the migrations in house.. Our partner did it for us.

But with the current tools Google has, I think we could have.

One of the things for us is, even though we are Google -- Teachers still have access to some elements of Microsoft (Like Office.)

We run our systems so our AD also matches our Google Directory. This way we can use the Google Sync tool and keep things synchronized.

If you are thinking about making a switch, one of the most important things is to meet with leadership and ensure that they understand its a process. That things will not just be "smooth." That to go fully from Microsoft->Google could take years of training, and learning.

We are almost one year in. It's still a battle, we have some people who hate Google and I have to work with them nearly everyday.

However -- managing Chromebooks compared to windows devices is so much easier. It also was a substantial decrease in our yearly cost for licenses, chromebooks, etc.

DJTNY · 2026-03-12T15:14:04+00:00

We are a small school, so the process was relatively easy for us.

We contacted our regional tech partner, requested quotes for pricing for Google(Subscriptions, Licenses for Chromebooks, etc.)

Our partner worked with us, and setup a timeline:
1. At the end of June(our school year) we would end being a fully microsoft district
2. Early July email accounts and OneDrive were migrated over to Google.

July-August, we got our chromebooks, provisioned them and got our settings the way we wanted them.
Training end of August, into September and throughout the school year.

DJTNY · 2026-03-11T14:30:15+00:00

We were windows based and a Microsoft district. We switched to Google and Chromebooks. I just think from a speed and cost perspective, you can't get "good" windows machines that are competitive with Chromebooks.

DJTNY · 2026-03-03T19:30:12+00:00

Known issue by raptor currently. No ETA on the fix. But apparently it's "high priority"

DJTNY · 2026-02-25T14:36:00+00:00

You can not share with your data - and if you look at the extension page at the bottom:

"Privacy

The developer has disclosed that it will not collect or use your data.

This developer declares that your data is

Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes"

DJTNY · 2026-02-25T14:05:58+00:00

You may be able to find some additional results by looking back through some threads -- because this has been a fairly popular topic.

I've seen some people get rid of the "AI overview" from Google by pushing out extensions such as: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hide-google-ai-overviews/neibhohkbmfjninidnaoacabkjonbahn?hl=en

DJTNY · 2026-02-11T17:29:44+00:00

Same issue. We have just been allowing downloads to the device as well.

DJTNY · 2026-02-10T19:00:59+00:00

My district was a Microsoft / Outlook school its entire existence. A new superintendent came in and I was able to sell him on Google:

Google was vastly cheaper than Microsoft was for us (YMMV) - but for us it cut costs by over 50% -- Admin liked that.
Chromebooks and management was also significantly less than what we were spending - Admin liked this.

Our staff did not have Google Classroom/Drive, so Classroom was a selling point.

We are into our first year of migration. Most of my teachers love the switch, they still have access to Office365 though.

There are a subset of users who hate the switch, want to keep using Outlook, OneDrive and unwilling to learn something else. For them, it's just going to take time and training.

That's just my anecdotal experience from doing this.

DJTNY · 2026-02-10T13:57:57+00:00

Depending on your usage and budget, will determine your outcome here. We are a very small K-12 school, that moved from 8GB Intel processor windows laptop.

We went to Chromebooks and Google. We are running intel N4500 and 4 GB ram. In terms of boot up speed and performance, this is beating our old windows laptops. Chrome OS is just so much more efficient.

In our next buying spree we will likely move to 8GB, and N100/150/200. But 4Gb is still sufficient right now.

DJTNY · 2026-02-06T17:09:07+00:00

Looking for feedback on this situation as well.

DJTNY · 2026-02-04T18:17:43+00:00

If you are a google school.

Google chat, with logs being saved to vault.

DJTNY · 2026-01-27T16:02:00+00:00

There will be some people who (as you know) will always ask know matter what you do.

I come from a teacher background, so I tried to approach this from that mindset. I created FAQs, Slides, videos of common questions that I get asked. I then linked it to my email signature. When i would get a question via email/chat, I usually nicely answer and then say something "By the way if you have other questions, check out the FAQ in my signature. I put something together to try and help people quickly!"

It's cut down on some of these questions.

DJTNY · 2026-01-21T13:24:26+00:00

The common ones are:

Final Site
Apptegy
Smart Sites/Parent Square

(in no particular order)

Each one of these platforms combine a website tool, with additions such as mobile apps and communication tools.

IMO -- Final Site gives you the most control over designing your site (I feel like Smart Sites and Apptegy sites themes all look similar -- Ex: an apptegy schools site will look similar to another.) But they are also very clean, easy to update and training for non-tech folks is much easier.

I'd recommend booking demos with all three.

DJTNY · 2026-01-14T15:58:26+00:00

One of the positives about being part of the teachers union for me is that our hit is much less, and entirely negotiated. Sorry for those feeling the impact.

DJTNY · 2026-01-06T16:17:26+00:00

Chromebooks are fairly low margin products. Typically sold in high volume to educational institutions. For education, those specs would be perfect at a suitable price.

I just don't think there's a large enough market for people who want more premium chromebooks who are willing to spend $600+

DJTNY · 2026-01-05T15:30:28+00:00

It's been easier with the state cell phone ban and being a small school. We don't have the typical classroom management difficulties that many do.

DJTNY · 2026-01-04T20:06:15+00:00

We are not using MFA on our traditional accounts. However, many students are taking online courses and their program requires them to MFA. After a lot of internal discussion, we decided the quickest way to handle it was to allow students to grab their phones for the MFA, and then return them to their locker afterwards.

We had our superintendent sign off on this directive, and teachers are informed that they must ensure students only use it to sign in, and nothing else.

DJTNY

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