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Google Admin Weekly: confirm your additional Google services before March!

Published 6 months ago • 2 min read

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Today's admin tip is about confirming access to secondary Google services being used by students.

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Confirm your "additional" Google services

Google is now requiring annual confirmation that you have parental consent for “Additional Google Services” that are available to your students. If you don’t re-confirm your policies, these services will be automatically disabled in March 2024.

The good news is that confirming these application is really easy and won’t take more than a few minutes.

Path: Apps > Additional Google Services

Now to the bigger issue: how do you collect parental consent for use of these services?

Every school should have some type of agreement signed by parents related to technology use. This might be a good time to review your existing agreement and update it to reflect the technology that your students are using.

Google provides a helpful template that you can customize according to your schools policies and procedures. This agreement can be used to collect parental consent for core services, secondary services, and third-party services.

Guidelines and requirements related to student data privacy vary from state to state which makes this a challenging topic, but getting parental consent is never a bad idea.

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