GoGuardian Quickstart Guide

Quickstart Guide: GoGuardian Extensions Before you can deploy the GoGuardian extensions, you will need access to two things: 1. Administrator-level access to your organization’s Google Apps for Education (GAFE) account.

2. Your GoGuardian extension IDs, which you can find in two places: ●

The ​Getting Started​ tab​ of GoGuardian Admin.

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The ​Deployment page​ of the GoGuardian Account setup guide.

Pushing the Extensions 1. Sign in to your administrator-level Google Apps for Education​ (GAFE) account.

2. Click on ​Device Management​.

3. Click on ​Chrome Management​.

4. Click on ​User Settings​.

5. Select the Organizational Unit (OU) that contains your student users​.

Note​: By default, your top-level OU will be selected.

Each child OU will inherit forced extension installation.

6. Click on Manage force-installed apps​ in the Force-installed Apps and Extensions​ section.

7. Click S ​ pecify a Custom App​.

8. One at a time, copy and paste the extension ID and URL for each GoGuardian extension, and then click Add​.

10. Verify that both extension IDs appear​ in the ​Total to force install​ panel.

11. Click​ Save​.

12. Click S ​ ave​ again, at the bottom of the screen.

13. If more than one OU contains student users, repeat steps 5-12 for other OUs containing student users.

Quickstart Guide: Google Admin Console Setup Configure Admin Console User Settings 1. Access the User Settings screen​ ​from the Google admin console​: a. Click on ​Device Management​. b. Click on​ Chrome Management​. c. Click on​ ​User Settings​.

2. Enable/allow the following options​: ●

Extensions & Apps

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Geolocation

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Screenshots

3. Disable/disallow the following options​: ●

Incognito Mode

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Developer Tools

4. Save your settings​ by clicking the S ​ ave button​.

Configure Admin Console Device Settings 5. Access the Device Settings screen​ ​from the Google admin console​: a. Click on ​Device Management​. b. Click on ​Chrome Management​. c. Click on ​Device Settings​.

6. Restrict Sign-in to a list of users ●

Use a wildcard to enable access across a domain.

For example: *@school.edu.

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You can add multiple domains, e.g. *@yourschool.edu, ​*@students.school.edu

7. Disable Guest Mode 8. Save your settings​ by clicking the S ​ ave button​.

Quickstart Guide: Best Practices GoGuardian Settings 1. Log in to GoGuardian Admin​.

2. Click on the avatar icon​ in the upper-right corner, and then click S ​ ettings​.

3. Enable the following options​: ●

Force SafeSearch

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Safe Translator

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Block Direct IP Access

Google Admin Console: Device Settings 1. Access the Device Settings screen​ ​from the Google admin console​: d. Click on ​Device Management​. e. Click on ​Chrome Management​. f.

Click on ​Device Settings​.

2. Enable ​the option to​ Erase all local user data after each sign-out​. ●

CAUTION​: ALL data saved locally will be deleted.

Data saved to Google Drive will NOT be deleted.

Google Admin Console: User Settings 2. Access the User Settings screen​ ​from the Google admin console​: g. Click on ​Device Management​. h. Click on ​Chrome Management​. i.

Click on ​User Settings​.

3. Add the following URLs to the URL blacklist​:

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accounts.google.com/Logout

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accounts.google.com/AddSession

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accounts.youtube.com/accounts/Logout2